TRC Meeting Structure
For
those of you who are new to the tenure process at Highline, or
for those of you who want to brush up on the process, the TRC
would like to ensure transparency of the TRC meeting process.
During the academic year, each probationer and their TWC
chair will meet together with the TRC twice, once in winter
quarter and again in spring quarter.
Occasionally, the TRC may request to meet with the
probationer and their TWC chair for additional meetings.
If that happens, the probationer and TWC chair will be
notified in advance.
Winter Quarter Meetings
The winter quarter meetings
are voting meetings during which the TRC will vote to recommend
continuation of the probationary status or, in quarter 7, of the
granting of tenure.
Here is the process for the winter quarter meetings:
- The TRC will welcome
both the probationer and TWC chair to the closed-door
meeting.
- The TRC, probationer,
and TWC chair will discuss the probationer’s progress in
tenure, including the TWC’s progress as a whole.
- The probationer will
leave the meeting so that the TRC can discuss the
probationer’s progress with the TWC chair.
- The TWC chair will
leave the meeting so that the TRC can discuss the
probationer’s progress and conduct the vote.
- The TRC will welcome
both the probationer and TWC chair back into the closed-door
meeting to explain the outcome of the vote, to provide
support and guidance to the probationer, and to give the TWC
chair information to take back to the entire TWC.
Spring Quarter Meetings
Because the spring meetings
are not voting meetings, the process is a bit more streamlined:
- The TRC will welcome
both the probationer and TWC chair to the closed-door
meeting.
- The TRC, probationer,
and TWC chair will discuss the probationer’s progress in
tenure, including the TWC’s progress as a whole.
- The probationer will
leave the meeting so that the TRC can discuss the
probationer’s progress with the TWC chair.
- If needed, the TWC
chair will leave the meeting so that the TRC can discuss the
probationer’s progress.
However, in most cases, the TWC chair will remain in
the room while the TRC welcomes the probationer back into
the closed-door meeting.
- At that point, the TRC
will provide support and guidance to the probationer and
give the TWC chair information to take back to the entire
TWC.
If you have any questions about the process of the TRC meetings,
please direct those questions to a member of the TRC.