Department Academic Personnel

The Department Academic Personnel Committee (DAPC) shall assist in the review of the recommendations initiated by the Department Chair with regard to recruitment, selection, performance evaluation, tenure, staff development, professorial chairs, and promotion of the academic personnel of the department in accordance with the general guidelines formulated by the University Academic Personnel Board (now the Diliman Academic Personnel and Fellowship Committee) and the implementing details laid down by the College Academic Personnel Board.

Disagreement between the Department Chair and members of the Department Academic Personnel Committee on specific recommendations shall be placed on record and shall be forwarded to the College Academic Personnel Committee for action.

The DAPC shall be composed of the Department Chair and two (2) or four (4) faculty representatives as members who shall be elected at large by the regular full- time faculty of the department; Provided, however, That the following guidelines shall be observed:

All full-time faculty members of the department shall be ranked from the most

junior to the most senior (e.g., Instructor 1 to 7, Assistant Professor 1 to 7,

Associate Professor 1 to 7, Professor 1 to 12). The upper half of the ranking list

shall be considered the senior level and the lower half, the junior level.

In case there are two (2) or more faculty members in the same rank or step,

priority in ranking should be based on the dates of their appointment to the

step.

or faculty members appointed to the same step at the same time, priority will

be based on their appointment to the rank.

For those who were appointed at the same time to the same rank and step, the

one with the longer length of service as faculty member in the University shall

be ranked higher in the list.

A department with at least nine (9) but not more than fourteen (14) full time

faculty members shall have two (2) faculty representatives, one (1) from the senior

level, and one (1) from the junior level.

A department with at least fifteen (15) full-time faculty members shall have four

(4) faculty representatives, two (2) from the senior level and two (2) from the

junior level.

A department of less than nine (9) full-time faculty members shall be merged by

the Dean with one (1) or more departments within the college for purposes of the

DAPC, Provided, That the Chair of the department with the bigger or biggest number of faculty members shall serve as Chair of the Committee; and Provided, further, That merged departments shall have at least one (1) representative, elected by the faculty of that department, in the Committee.

A department with at least six (6) part-time faculty members and lecturers, or a combination of both, shall have a representative of part-time faculty members and/or lecturers in the DAPC. The representative shall be elected at large by the part-time faculty members and/or lecturers of the department, and shall attend Committee deliberations only when part-time faculty members and/or lecturers are involved; Provided, That the same rule shall apply in the case of academic non- teaching personnel in the department.

Members of the DAPC shall have a term of two (2) years; Provided, however, That for the first set of elective representatives, one-half (½) of the membership shall have a term of two (2) years and the other half a term of one (1) year as determined by the department faculty; Provided, further, That the representatives of the part- time faculty members and lecturers or the academic non-teaching personnel shall have a term of one (1) year.

Source : UP Diliman Faculty Manual, 2003.pp.45-46