Provost’s Communications (PCs) are designed to assist units with recruiting, evaluating, and retaining academic personnel of the highest quality, and to guide faculty and staff in their academic careers at Illinois.

Please contact the appropriate Provost’s staff member to answer questions regarding any of the Provost’s Communications.

Planning and Budgeting

• Communication #1: Budgetary Principles and Practice – Communication #1 is under review for needed updates. Until the revised communication is available, please contact Andrea Hoey with questions.

Appointments

• Communication #2: Offering Academic Positions
• Communication #3: Appointments of Faculty, Specialized Faculty, and Academic Professionals
• Communication #4: Faculty Excellence Program
• Communication #5: Term Professorial Appointments (“Q” and “W” Appointments)
• Communication #6: Named Faculty Appointments
• Communication #7: Targets of Opportunity Program (TOP)
• Communication #8: Dual Career Academic Couples Program

Promotion and Tenure

• Communication #9: Promotion and Tenure – Communication #9 has been modified due to COVID and is effective as of 02.01.2023.

Retirements, Resignations, and Termination of Faculty and Staff

• Communication #10: Guidelines and Procedures for Notice of Nonreappointment for Nontenured Faculty Members and for Denials of Promotion Not Linked to Tenure Decisions
• Communication #11: Guidelines and Procedures for Notice of Nonreappointment for Academic Professional Employees and Other Members of the Academic Staff
• Communication #12: Policy for Awarding Emeritus/Emerita Status

Probationary Period/Tenure Track Faculty

• Communication #13: Review of Faculty in Year Three of the Probationary Period – Communication #13 has been modified due to COVID and is effective as of 2.12.2021.
• Communication #14: Special Tenure Code Provision for Appointments Beginning After the Eighth Week of the Academic Year
• Communication #15: Effect of Leave Without Pay on the Probationary Period
• Communication #16: Policy on Interruptions of the Probationary Period (Tenure Code Rollbacks)  
  

Contracts/Agreements

• Communication #17: Program for Multi-Year Contracts for Eligible Academic Staff

Leaves

• Communication #19: Sabbatical Leaves of Absence
• Communication #20: Leaves

Reviews

• Communication #21: Annual Faculty Review – Communication #21 has been modified due to COVID and is effective as of 2.12.2021.
• Communication #22: Annual Review of Academic Professional Employees – Communication #22 has been redirected to Performance Reviews for Academic Professional and Non-probationary Civil Service Employees (Campus Administration Manual) effective 11.6.2024.
• Communication #23: Appointment and Review of Faculty Members with Budgeted Joint Appointments
• Communication #24: Five-Year Review of Administrators

Specialized Faculty

• Communication #25: Employment Guidelines for Specialized Faculty Holding Non-Tenure Systems
• Communication #26: Promotion to Teaching, Research or Clinical Associate or Full Professor Titles

Governance

• Communication #27: Shared Governance for Academic Units – Communication #27 has been updated and is effective as of 11.01.2021.

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