Comprehensive Review for Reappointment
Note: these policies are currently under review.
Comprehensive Review
The Comprehensive Review takes place after three years of service, during the fourth year. Following a successful comprehensive review, a mandatory tenure review will take place after six years of service, during the seventh year.
Comprehensive review processes are guided largely by departmental bylaws and criteria; however, there are overarching campus policies and procedures to which all units must adhere.
Information regarding the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure of tenure / tenure-track faculty can be found on the Office of Faculty Affairs website.
For further guidance, please reach out to CAS-Faculty@colorado.edu.
Related forms and procedures:
- Quality Teaching Initiative
- VCAC Checklist/Description of VCAC Checklist Requirements
- A&S Personnel Calendar
- College Policies and Guidance
- Personnel Procedures Reminders and Guidelines
- Guidelines for External Letters of Evaluation
Votes / Ballots – Comprehensive Review
Below is additional background and a set of sample ballots that reflect University of Colorado Boulder Office of Faculty Affairs guidance on voting requirements.
- Comprehensive Review and Reappointment
Comprehensive Review and Reappointment Background
- For cases involving reappointment at comprehensive review, faculty and review committees determine whether the candidate is either: (1) on track for tenure; (2) not yet on track for tenure but could meet standards for tenure with appropriate corrections; or (3) not on track for tenure in each of the areas of teaching (or librarianship), scholarly/creative work, and leadership and service, (and, where indicated in primary unit criteria, other activities relevant to the specific unit). Based on this evaluation, the faculty and review committees shall issue a recommendation regarding reappointment.
- Boulder campus practice is to seek a determination based on a single vote on the question of whether to reappoint the candidate.
Comprehensive Review and Reappointment Ballot [SAMPLE]
_____[NAME]_____ is undergoing comprehensive review and reappointment.
Do you recommend reappointment?
_____ Yes _____ No _____ Abstain
- Comprehensive Review – Feedback Only
Comprehensive Review – Feedback Only Background
In this additional feedback process, the primary unit head shall examine evidence provided by the candidate of the candidate's teaching (or librarianship), scholarly/creative work, and leadership and service, (and, where indicated in primary unit criteria, other activities relevant to the specific unit), and make suggestions for improvement in those areas in which the record of the candidate should be stronger in order to meet primary unit criteria.
Comprehensive Review – Feedback Only Ballot [SAMPLE]
_____[NAME]_____ is undergoing comprehensive review – feedback only.
Has the comprehensive review – feedback only process been completed?
_____ Yes _____ No _____ Abstain
NOTE: If Comprehensive Review (CR) and Promotion & Tenure (PT) review occur in the same academic year, units must vote on both CR and PT, with the required CR vote listed before the PT vote.
Reviewed 12 August 2026