Typically, tenure‐track colleagues submit their tenure files for external review in early September of the sixth year of employment at the College. This timetable, which allows for completion of the tenure review before the March meeting of the College Board of Trustees, results in a review that considers the candidate’s work during the first five years at the College. For this reason, the fourth year is critically important time for forward‐looking conversations in the department. An ultimately successful tenure decision depends upon a thorough stock‐taking at this time, in dialogue between the candidate and the department, of the tenure case as it stands. Any work necessary to strengthen the tenure case would need to be undertaken at this time. In the tenure review the committee is looking for

• Evidence that the colleague has a record of sustained success as a teacher
• Evidence that the colleague has a body of externally validated scholarship
• Evidence that the colleague contributes, substantially and effectively, to the department and to faculty governance.