That would be the norm here (and it can lead to interesting decisions re 
in which dept. the person ends up if the particular discipline doesn't 
exist at the University eg engineer going to business). But our present 
Director I believe did not want to go thru' that process and neither did 
the previous one although that was a special circumstances as it was a 
four year appointment running up to the person's desired retirement 
date. I have never thought it to be a good thing -- first, to me it is a 
sign of lack of respect by the school in an academic context, and 
second, it seems to be a reflection of the person's own lack of 
self-confidence as an academic (in this case the person is not an active 
researcher). And I think it leads to too much unnecessary deference to 
traditional researchers.

In sum, I would really push for administrators to have regular 
appointments and if you have chosen the right people it should be a very 
simple process.

Sally

Mary-Kathryn Zachary wrote:
> At our institution, administrators go through the regular review process.
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>     Colleagues,
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>     When your university appoints a senior-level administrator such as
>     Chair or Dean, how does tenure review work?  In other words, does
>     the candidate or candidates put forward by the search committee go
>     through the ordinary review process (whatever that may be), or is
>     there an extraordinary review process for tenurability?  I'm
>     curious how our practice (candidate reviewed by Provost, not
>     faculty) differs from other schools.  
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