2025-2026 Process, Schedule and Reminders
Current Year Details
Major Disruptions Impact Statements remain an option (Section I.C. of the Dossier)
The ability of candidates to document the effects of the pandemic and/or other high-impact disruptions that have occurred and may have impacted their work activities and the types of work outcomes that they were able to achieve, remains an option in Section I.C. This impact statement, as well as the candidate statement in general, remains optional. Candidates may elect to include a Major Disruptions Impact Statement regardless of the action they are requesting (reappointment, promotion, and/or tenure) and regardless of their rank or track. Candidates who are tenure-track assistant professors may or may not have received extensions to their tenure clock, and candidates may elect whether to share this information in their Impact Statement. **AS A REMINDER, candidates who have received extensions of their tenure clock may not be held to a different promotion and/or tenure standard than candidates who have not received extensions (i.e., clock extensions are not to be treated as “extra time”).
To include a Major Disruptions Impact Statement in an RPT dossier: The Major Disruptions Impact Statement, where used, will be part of the optional candidate statement in RPT dossiers. The two-page limit for section I.C. of the RPT dossier has been increased, permitting a maximum of three pages. Faculty may choose to present a Major Disruptions Impact Statement as a discrete one-page addition to their candidate statement, or they may choose to integrate information about the impact throughout a three-page candidate statement. If integrating across a three-page statement, faculty should ensure that impacts are clearly and explicitly presented to address the intent of this opportunity.
Eliminating the term “Early” in nonmandatory tenure actions
Based on recommendations from the University RPT Committee, the term “Early” is being removed from promotion and tenure actions that occur prior to the mandatory review year. These actions will be tracked in the Provost’s Office as “nonmandatory reviews” such that a candidate who is considered for tenure and promotion prior to their mandatory review year and is denied can be considered again during their mandatory review year. All reviewers should be reminded that the focus of the review should solely be on whether the candidate has met or exceeded the standards for promotion and/or tenure.
Schedule
Provost’s Memo to Deans and Academic Department Heads
Learn more about updates to the RPT process for the 2025-2026 academic year.
General Information Sessions
The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost offers general information sessions on the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure process each spring semester. The sessions include details about the process, an overview of the RPT website and a question and answer period. New faculty with professorial rank in all tracks (tenure-track, teaching, research, etc.), those who will be entering the RPT cycle and anyone involved in reviewing candidates in the RPT process are encouraged to attend. No registration or RSVP is required.
Please familiarize yourself with the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure website prior to the sessions.
If you have questions please contact arjinnet@ncsu.edu.
RPT General Information Sessions
The session dates are announced each fall for the following spring.
March 20, 2025 RPT General Information Session
RPT Archives
Find additional information about the previous three academic years’ RPT process details.