No deans, associate deans, or assistant deans of colleges, or chairs of departments, shall attend or participate in the deliberations of either departmental or college promotion and tenure committees.

           All members of college promotion and tenure committees shall be elected directly by the faculties they represent. The college committees shall consist of one tenured faculty member from each department in the college. This member shall be chosen by majority vote of all full-time teaching and research faculty members of the department, present and voting, by secret ballot before April 15 of each year for the ensuing year.

           The University Promotion and Tenure Committee shall consist of one tenured full professor from each of the major degree-granting academic colleges. This member shall be elected by his/her college's promotion and tenure committee by September 1. The University Promotion and Tenure Committee shall be convened each year by the provost or his/her designee by September 15. The committee will receive its charge at that time and elect a committee chair.

           No person shall serve on a college promotion and tenure committee or the University Promotion and Tenure Committee for more than three years consecutively but is eligible for reelection after an absence of at least one year.