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Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions (ATP)

 Collection
Identifier: BC06-06

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection contains the Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions meeting minutes and correspondence between the Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) and other faculty and administrators about nominations for tenure from 1970-1983. This collection also contains correspondence about academic freedom and tenure from 1998-2002, the code of academic freedom and tenure from 2000, and facilty statistics from 1999.

Dates

  • Creation: 1970 - 2024

Access

Personnel records of faculty and staff (including search, tenure/promotion, and disciplinary/grievance records) are restricted for 75 years from the date of creation.

Publication Rights

No permission is required for reproductions of materials in the public domain or uses that fall within fair use exemptions to copyright as defined under U.S. Copyright Law.

Barnard College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations. To request permission to reproduce these types of materials, please contact us at archives@barnard.edu.

This collection may also contain materials created by others, for which copyright is not held by the College. In order to reproduce these materials, permission from the Archives is not required, but it is researchers' responsibility to determine and obtain any necessary permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Please see our Reproductions, Copyright, and Citing Archives page for more information and contact us at archives@barnard.edu with any questions.

Reproduction Restrictions

Reproductions can be made for research purposes.

Historical Summary

The Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions (ATP) advises the President and Provost on academic qualifications of individuals for the purposes of appointment, tenure, promotion and other matters relating to faculty evaluation, recognition and development (Barnard College Faculty Committees website). The tenure process at Barnard College has faced widespread criticism from faculty members over the years. In 2002, the Ad-Hoc Faculty Committee on the Tenure Process was formed to address these issues--the major issue being that Barnard faculty have to go through the tenure process at both Columbia University and Barnard College, while the Columbia University Provost has the final decision of tenure of Barnard faculty.

Extent

1.67 Linear Feet (4 Hollinger boxes)

.22 Gigabytes (1,208 files) : PDF, docx, xlsx

Language

English

Overview

This collection consists of materials from the Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions (ATP).

Collection Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically.Additionally, the archivist completed high-level physical rearrangement to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement. The archivist placed the digital documents, at the highest directory level, into a new folder with a new file name.

Physical Location

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Acquisition Information

The acquisition date and source for paper materials is unknown. The digital materials were transferred from the Provost's Office in 2024.

Accruals

Additions are expected.

Related Collections

The President's Office collection, BC05.22, includes many committee materials and supporting documentation.

Processing History

In April 2024, Olivia Newsome moved this collection from BC06.01, to the current collection BC06.06 to highlight this long-standing committee. Olivia Newsome also updated the finding aid at this time. In June 2025, Olivia Newsome processed paper and digital accurals.

Title
A Guide to The Advisory Committee on Appointments, Tenure, and Promotions (ATP)
Status
Completed
Author
Olivia Newsome
Date
2024 and June 2025
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections Repository

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