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January 15, 2021

RE: Dr. Swagata “Ban” Banerjee’s Application for Tenure and Promotion to Full Professor

Dr. Swagata “Ban” Banerjee applied for tenure and promotion from the rank of Associate Professor to the rank of full Professor at the School of Business. The School of Business T&P Committee members have carefully reviewed his dossier, following pertinent policies in the Faculty Handbook (2.1.5.4 and 2.6.2.1) related to tenure and promotion to the rank of professor.

Dr. Swagata Banerjee joined Kentucky State University in August, 2017 as an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance in the School of Business. Prior to coming to KSU, he was an Associate Professor of Agribusiness (08/2012 to 08/2017) in the School of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (08/2008 to 08/2012) in the Department of Finance, Agribusiness and Economics at Alabama A & M University. Altogether, he taught over twelve (12) continuous years full-time at regionally accredited universities in the US. As an Associate Professor for over six (6) years, out of his twelve years of continuous university teaching experience, Dr. Banerjee fulfills the eligibility requirement to be considered for tenure and promotion to the rank of professor.

Over the years, Dr. Banerjee has taught 29 courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. The courses range in disciplines from agribusiness, to economics, to finance, and to management fields. Such diverse teaching experiences typically allow a faculty to develop well-rounded pedagogical content and strategies with potentially positive impact on educational practice and classroom instructions. Such are evidenced in the students' ratings of Dr. Banerjee's teaching effectiveness as documented in his dossier. Four out of the five courses that Dr. Banerjee taught in his first year here at KSU are Business Statistics, Quantitative Methods, Financial Institutions, and Behavioral Finance. Historically, many of our students have found these courses very challenging due to the mathematics-oriented nature and/or fairly technical skills required to master the course contents. The Behavioral Finance course presents a special challenge. As an emerging body of knowledge within the field of Finance, books and resources on the discipline are still sparse. However, Dr. Banerjee has developed an effective approach to