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(III.) B. EXCEPTIONS

1. Consideration of the promotion of any temporary or permanent member of the Faculty, may also be initiated by the President of the College, the Committee on Tenure and Promotion, or the Faculty member. The procedure as outlined under A shall then apply.

2. If a member of the immediate family of a person on the Faculty is a candidate for promotion, that person shall absent herself or himself from all discussion of the relative's case and shall have no vote in the matter.

3. The Committee on Tenure and Promotion shall annually review the status of each member of the permanent instructional staff in the rank of Associate Professor for eight years or more.

4. If a decision concerning promotion must be made at a time when it is impossible for the department and for the Committee on Tenure and Promotion to meet, the President shall obtain the opinion of such members of the department and of the Committee as may be consulted within a reasonable time.

5. In any case involving promotion it shall be left to the discretion of the President if and when a joint meeting of the Committee on Tenure and Promotion and the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees is in order.

6. With respect to any decisions in which the Chair of the department is ineligible to participate by virtue of his or her rank or tenure status, the senior member of the department eligible to vote in the matter shall carry out the responsibilities assigned herein to the Chair.

7. If a member of the Faculty is recommended simultaneously for tenure and promotion by an identical divided vote, and if the grounds for the recommendations are substantially the same, subsequent procedure shall be governed by the rules laid out in Section IV.

8. Procedures for promotion of a Faculty member who is not a member of any department or who is a member of a department in which there are fewer than three members eligible to vote and voting should be modeled as closely as possible upon regular procedures, by common agreement of the Dean of the Faculty and the Faculty member and with the approval of the Committee on Tenure and Promotion. These procedures shall apply to a "member of a department in which there are fewer than three members eligible to vote and voting" only at the option of that department member, if s/he is in the second or subsequent term of his/her appointment as of December 2, 1992.

9. Where Associate Professors have been in rank for 15 years or more, departments are encouraged to consider for promotion those whose scholarship continues to be high in quality and who have records of excellent service and teaching.