7.1 Reappointment, promotion, and Continuing Status reviews of CA staff are intended to advance the overall quality of the Laboratory's CA staff and of its research and construction programs. Criteria and standards will be comparable to the highest standards used in equivalent employment categories in leading research laboratories in the nation.
7.2 Laboratory-wide Reappointment-Promotion Committees (RPC) for CA staff members in each professional category shall consist of all higher rank CA staff in the professional specialty of the particular candidate, plus two higher rank members from each of the professional specialties different from that of the candidate. (For purposes of this subsection the research staff of the Laboratory shall be taken as including all TS faculty holding full or joint appointments in the Laboratory.) The four members of each RPC representing professional specialties different from that of the candidate will be designated by the Laboratory Director (if the designated professional category has no members, or one member, at the required rank, a corresponding vacancy or vacancies shall exist in the RPC).
7.3 The Assistant Provost for Academic Personnel Administration will send to the Director of the Laboratory no later than September 1 of each year a list of CA staff members for whom reappointment and continuing appointment actions are required.
7.4 Each NSCL Department Head shall appoint a three person subcommittee of the RPC to consider reappointment, promotion, and continuing appointment status recommendations for CA staff members in her/his department.
7.4.1 The subcommittee shall base its judgment on its assessment of the staff member's performance and her/his overall contribution to the research and construction programs of the Laboratory.
7.4.2 The subcommittee will review the contents of the CA staff member's evaluation folder. Comments and information may be solicited from other members of the Laboratory, from outside referees, or from any other information source. The subcommittee must interview the CA staff member if she/he desires.
7.4.3 The subcommittee shall present its recommendations to the full RPC for the relevant professional category and grade.
7.5 The recommendations of the RPC will be forwarded to the Department Head. If the Department Head considers an action opposite to the recommendation of the RPC, she/he shall meet with the Committee before taking such action and present reasons and hear comments from the Committee. The recommendation shall then be forwarded successively to the Director of the Laboratory and to the Provost for appropriate action.
7.6 Reappointment, promotion, or Continuing Status recommendations shall be communicated to the Provost for each recommendation via submission of the NSCL Reappointment, Promotion, and Continuing Status form. The Provost will arrange for a meeting with the Laboratory Director to review her/his recommendations no later than November 1 prior to the ending date of the final probationary appointment year. The CA staff member will be informed in writing regarding his/her appointment status no later than December 15th of the final probationary appointment year.
7.7 The awarding of Continuing Status will be based on a record of sustained, outstanding achievement in the Laboratory. A recommendation for promotion from the rank of Engineer (NSCL), Physicist (NSCL) or Assistant Professor (NSCL) to Staff Engineer (NSCL), Staff Physicist (NSCL) or Associate Professor (NSCL), or from the rank of Staff Engineer (NSCL), Staff Physicist (NSCL), or Associate Professor (NSCL), to Senior Engineer (NSCL), Senior Physicist (NSCL) or Professor (NSCL) should be based on several years of sustained, outstanding achievements in the Laboratory.
7.8 All personnel actions under the CA system are reported to the Board of Trustees of Michigan State University.
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