To refer the matter of a new post tenure review policy to the Senate Executive Committee, and, keeping the current discussion in mind to report back to the members of the senate in a timely manner in order for a policy statement to be voted on during the May 12, 1999 University Senate meeting.

1. Legislative History
2. Existing PTR policy (Retyped from hard copy by P. Gilkey. Normative version is a GIF file maintained by OAA.
3. FAC proposal on Post Tenure Review Spring 1998
4. Senate Ad Hoc Committee proposal on Post Tenure Review Fall 1998
5. Draft A Revised policy statement on Post-tenure reviews from the special Senate Conference Committee
6. Draft B Document subsequently revised by Senate President Jeff Hurwit
7. Some letters received by the Senate Executive Committee regarding PTR
8. For other related documents see Master PTR index

RESOLUTION: The senate adopts and endorses the policy statement on post tenure review submitted by the Senate Conference Committee.

1. Sunday April 18 1999. The Senate Executive Committee held its first meeting. Senate Vice President Peter Gilkey chaired the meeting as Senate President Jeff Hurwit has indicated he will not participate in discussions the Senate Executive Committee will be having on PTR. The Senate Executive Committee transmitted letters to the Senate  and to Mike Russo concerning the matter. The Executive Committee anticipates presenting two documents to the Senate. The first will be a minimal update of the current Post Tenure Review Regulations. The second will be a revision of the Senate Conference Committee Document (Draft-a); any revision to this must have the prior approval of the Senate Conference Committee before it is presented to the full Senate. We URGE you to read the full explaination of how the Executive Committee intends to proceed; this web document contains the text of the letters we have transmitted to the Senate and to Professor Russo.
2. Monday April 19 1999 Professor M. Russo (Chair of the Senate Conference Committee) and P. Gilkey (Vice President of the UO Senate) met to discuss how the Senate Executive Committee could exchange ideas about potential revisions to the PTR Document from the Senate Conference Committee.
3. Thursday April 22 1999 The Senate Conference Committee (Professors L. Alpert, P. Engelking, and M. Russo) met with Professors P. Gilkey and L. Kintz of the Senate Executive Committee met further to discuss Post Tenure Review policy.
4. Friday April 22 1999 Professors D. Boush, P. Gilkey, L. Kintz, and G. Steigelman met to write a "predraft" of a "minimilist revision" to current post tenure policy ("draftlite"). Work on this document continued on Saturday and Sunday via email.
5. Sunday 25 April 1999 The predraft of "draftlite" was posted on the web. Comments were solicited from the Senate Conference Committee, the Senate Ad Hoc Committee and various other faculty members across campus.
6. Wednesday 28 April 1999 The rough draft of the "draftlite" proposed PTR policy was posted and the accompanying transmittal letter
7. Wednesday 5 May 1999 It is anticipated that a final version of "draftlite" will be available and this document will be discussed along with a (possibly) revised version of draft-a by the Senate on Wednesday 12 May 1999.