Promotion to Full Professor 2

After having been appointed for five years, Associate Professors (1 or 2) can apply for promotion by requesting to be appraised by the BC2. The BC2 also meets 3 times per year, on the third Wednesdays of November, February and May (click here for the schedule). Staff members can apply for an appraisal by contacting HR (hra-bb rug.nl).

Appraisal

The appraisal is based on the candidate's portfolio, letters of references, and on interviews with the candidate, the candidate’s direct supervisor, the scientific director of the institute, and the education director of the institute. The BC2 will also take into account how candidates developed in the period up to the appraisal. The advisory HR member of the committee has access to reports of the R&D interviews and will be able to point out any major discrepancies between the R&D interviews and the findings of the BC2. In such cases, the R&D interview reports may still be added to the file with the candidate’s permission, so as to give the promotion committee access.

Advice BC2

If the BC2 finds that the candidate meets the criteria for promotion to Full Professor 2 in the relevant career path, it will advise the Faculty Board to promote the candidate. If the committee finds that the candidate does not fully meet all the criteria and that this is not compensated for by exceptional results in other areas, it will advise against promotion. In either case, the BC2 motivates its advice with respect to the relevant criteria. The Faculty Board will subsequently decide about the advice, inform the candidate, and set the relevant procedures in motion. In case the Faculty Board decides to nominate the candidate for promotion to Full Professor 2 to the Board of the University, this nomination will be accompanied by the candidate’s complete file, accompanied by the BC2 advice and the profile report for the new position (as updated by the scientific director of the institute). If the Faculty Board decides not to promote the staff member to Full Professor 2, they remain Associate Professor and can apply one other time for promotion after a period of at least 3 years has passed.