Swagata "Ban" Banerjee, Ph.D. | Email: Swagata.Banerjee@kysu.edu
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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January 19, 2021
Dr. Stevie Watson, Chair
School of Business (SOB)
College of Humanities, Business and Society (CHBS)
105A Bradford Hall
Kentucky State University (KSU)
Re: Letter dated January 15, 2021 from the SOB/Unit Tenure and Promotion (T&P) Committee
I am writing this in response to the above-referenced letter, and in keeping with the Faculty Handbook Item 2.7.3.4 (Dossier Confidentiality – last sentence).
Please allow me to convey my gratitude to the SOB T&P Committee members for their time and effort in going through my dossier and making their evaluation on each of the three key areas—teaching, scholarly/creative work, and service—as well as for making their recommendation. I also wish to thank you for your diligence in putting together the committee.
In this connection, please allow me to clarify (and perhaps supplement) the core of what was stated in the second paragraph of the Unit Committee's aforementioned letter:
- I have been at the Associate rank continually since August 2012 at two regionally accredited universities, which makes it a total of eight (8) years as Associate Professor until August 2020, not six (6) as stated in the Unit T&P Committee's letter. I had received four (4) years' credit for past work toward tenure from Provost Jackson (per her letter of June 14, 2017), which made me eligible to apply for tenure two (2) years ago, in the 2018-19 cycle, plus three (3) years since joining KSU. These add up to a total of seven (7) continuous tenure-eligible years, not counting the last semester (Fall 2020). This has been the basis of my current (2020-21) application for tenure.
- My application for promotion is based on the fact that I completed ten (12) continuous years' full-time teaching experience before the last semester (Fall 2020). This includes four (4) years at Alabama A&M University, five (5) years at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and three (3) years at KSU.
- May it also be noted that by virtue of the clarification in points 1 and 2 above, I had in fact met the eligibility for both tenure (T) and promotion (P) in the 2018-19 T&P cycle. That is when I first applied for both T and P at KSU, and a final decision on that joint application was never rendered.
IN ALL THINGS EXCELLENCE
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