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24.		(a)		The Committee on Tenure and Promotion shall consist of the President (Chair), the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and five full professors elected by the faculty-at-large for staggered terms of three years. In addition, each year, subsequent to the election of regular members, there shall be an alternate elected for a term of one year to serve on the Committee on Tenure and Promotion on any case from which a regular, elected member is disqualified (see Sections IV.B.4.a. and IV.C.1.f. of the Policy of Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure at Smith College). The alternate will have served previously on the Committee on Tenure and Promotion. The Committee will provide the alternate with an appropriate orientation for all the cases under consideration. Not more than one professor shall be elected from a single department. A professor with a dual appointment shall be considered a member of the department(s) in which he or she votes. A regularly elected faculty member shall be ineligible for consecutive terms. Alternate members shall be eligible for three consecutive one-year terms. However, an alternate may serve for only one term consecutive to the less than three-year term during which he or she served as a regular elected member. No elected member may serve more than three consecutive years on the Committee on Tenure and Promotion, whether as a regular or alternate member. Faculty elected to the Committee on Tenure and Promotion for a three-year term shall have agreed to serve all three years of the terms for which they are elected, taking no sabbatical or other leave under ordinary circumstances. Each elected member who serves a full three-year term on the Committee shall receive one semester of credit toward the total number of teaching semesters required for eligibility for the next sabbatical. Faculty members elected to substitute for elected members on leave or who have resigned shall be eligible for election to a full term after a period equal to their time of substitute service has elapsed.
(b)				This Committee shall consider all tenure and promotion decisions, whether proposed by the President, by this Committee, by the department, or by the candidate.
(c)				Detailed procedures followed by this committee are outlined in The Policy on Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure. Next