The Academic Personnel Review Dashboard supplements and complements Council on Academic Personnel (CAP) annual reports by providing five-year trends on CAP recommendations and the Administration’s final decisions, allowing viewers to filter by school and proposed rank broken down by proposed action types. Please be sure to refer to CAP annual reports for full context.
The dashboard is updated once a year around the issuance of CAP annual report each year. As of May 2024, the five-year trends encompasses review years 2018-2023. Please note that there may be small case count discrepancies between the dashboard and applicable CAP annual reports mainly due to the posteriority of 2018-2023 data pulls for the dashboard. Starting with data for 2023-24, there should be no further discrepancy.
Review years in the dashboard, as well as in CAP annual reports, correspond to CAP’s yearly meeting cycle, as opposed to academic years; in general, CAP meets from September to July.
The following glossary provides a brief description of key terms used in the dashboard and in CAP annual reports.
Proposed Ranks
- Assistant Professor: This aggregated rank includes Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor in Residence, Assistant Professor of Clinical X, Assistant Professor of Teaching, and Acting Professor of Law titles.
- Associate Professor: This aggregated rank includes Associate Professor, Associate Professor in Residence, Associate Professor of Clinical X, and Associate Professor of Teaching titles.
- Professor: This aggregated rank includes Professor, Professor in Residence, Professor of Clinical X, and Professor of Teaching titles.
- Honorary Title – See Titles of Distinction.
Normal vs. Accelerated: “Normal” time refers to the standard rate at which the majority of faculty will progress through the ranks and steps. “Accelerated” time refers to progress at a faster rate. See APP 3-40 for details.
Action Types
- Appointments: All Senate faculty appointments except for steps 1-3 in the aggregated Assistant Professor rank
- Promotions and Advancements: All promotions to a higher rank and advancements to Step 6 and to Above Scale
- Merit Increases: Through 2022-23, this category includes all merits to a higher step within the same rank except for advancements to Step 6 and to Above Scale, which are included in Promotions and Advancements. Starting in 2024-25, this category will mainly include accelerated merits, merits with Mid-Career Appraisals (MCA), and Above Scale merits. Normal merits will be included only if cases are reviewed by CAP per faculty selection.
- Other: This category mainly consists of Fifth Year Review, Career Equity Review, Change of Series, MCA only, No Change, Non-Reappointment, and Reappointment cases.
CAP Recommendations and Final Administration Decisions
- Full Agreement as proposed: in agreement with the proposed action and step.
- Partial Agreement – modified up: in agreement with the proposed action, such as a merit, promotion, or advancement, but to a higher step than proposed.
- Partial Agreement – modified down: in agreement with the proposed action, such as an accelerated merit, promotion, or advancement, but to a lower step than proposed.
- Disagreement: fully against the proposed action. This category also includes CAP’s recommendation or the Administration’s decision for a merit instead of a proposed promotion or a Fifth-Year Review instead of a merit.
- In Process (CAP): CAP has not provided a recommendation, as an ad hoc committee was convened or additional information was requested.
- Pending (Administration): A final decision has not been made by the Chancellor or Provost at the time of data preparation.