Committee on Academic Priorities Guidelines for Position Requests

Committee on Academic Priorities Guidelines for Position Requests for 2024-2025
 

Departments or programs wishing to request a tenure-track or continuing non-tenure track position are required to submit a letter of intent (LOI) form that briefly outlines the position to be proposed. The LOI form must be emailed, as an attachment, to CAP via Tina Bockius – cbockius@brynmawr.edu, between September 3 and October 11, 2024. 

Full proposals should be submitted between December 1, 2024 and January 15, 2025 using the questionnaire located at the bottom of this webpage. Once the questionnaire is submitted, it goes directly to CAP. Any additional documentation you are providing may be emailed to CAP, via Tina Bockius – cbockius@brynmawr.edu. Official enrollment data will be provided in part by Institutional Research, supplementing the reports available to departments and programs on Bionic. The data from Institutional Research will be shared with submitting departments and programs in September.

The schedule for submitting a position proposal is as follows:

Between September 3 and October 11, 2024:

• Department/program submits a LOI form
• LOIs will be posted to the CAP web site
• CAP Chair sends message to all faculty inviting them to look at these LOIs, and reaches out to department/program chairs/directors with curricular interests in the positions identified in the LOIs

Between December 1, 2024 and January 15, 2025:

• Full proposals due to CAP (using form and submitted electronically)

A proposal for a tenure-track or continuing non-tenure track position must use the form at the bottom of this webpage.

February-March:

• CAP conducts a formal meeting with each department/program

March-April:

• CAP provides its recommendations to the President and the Board of Trustees
• CAP submits its Annual Report to the faculty

April-May:

• The President and the Board of Trustees make their final decisions

CAP examines each position request in terms of:

• its relation to the College’s mission and Strategic Directions
• its contributions to short- and long-term departmental, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary directions
• its impact on overall faculty resources at Bryn Mawr and in the Bi-Co, including our capacity to respond to sabbatical leaves
• opportunities to enhance the diversity of our faculty
• the history of previous requests from this department or program to CAP
• in the case of CNTT requests, see the established guidelines on the nature of CNTT appointments (Attachment)
• Bi-Co departments and program requests will be considered in consultation with Haverford’s Strategic Curriculum and Personnel Committee (SCPC)

CAP is committed to making themselves available during the Fall 2024 semester to any department or program chair, director, or faculty group who wants to discuss the submission of a specific position request or any other long-range planning issues. Please contact the CAP Chair, Maja Šešelj with a copy to Tina Bockius (cbockius@brynmawr.edu) if you have questions that you would like answered either by email, or if you would like to schedule a meeting with the committee.

Questionnaire for Proposals for Tenure-Track and Continuing Non-Tenure Track Positions and Excel Document 1 and Excel Document 2

*Please be sure to use all three documents for your proposal - one Word document and two Excel documents.