Faculty Appointment and Promotion (APP) Forms
The following links will take you to various forms used in submitting academic appointments. Once you have followed a link, please save the document on your hard drive before filling it out. Then fill in the information in the spaces provided. Upon completion the forms should then be printed for your Department Chairs/Heads signature, and then submitted to the Dean’s Office along with the checklist and the documents specified. If you are a faculty member, please submit the form to your department.
•Checklist (2 pages) (Word) (PDF)
•APP Log for MED (vote sheet) (Word) (PDF)
•APP log for SDM (vote sheet) (Word) (PDF)
•APP log SPH (vote sheet) (Word) (PDF)
•APP Face Sheet (Prom/Initial/Change in Title) (Word) (PDF)
•APP Evaluator Listing (Word) (PDF)
•BU CV (no more than 3 months old) (Word) (PDF)
•NIH CV (if CV is greater than 4 pages)
•Affirmative Action (if initial hire)
Important notes on downloading forms:
• Please be sure that upon completing the Word form that it looks like the PDF format before submitting.
Some forms are now available from the main campus Provost’s Office Web page as PDF forms. The full version of Adobe Acrobat is required to save the forms. (With the free Acrobat Reader, you can type text into the forms, but cannot save what you type in.) In addition, for the most effective use of the forms (which were created in version 5.0), we STRONGLY recommend that you upgrade to version 5.0 of the full version of Adobe Acrobat AND/OR Acrobat Reader.
Emeritus appointments. “Emeritus status is one of honor and esteem at Boston University. Faculty members of professorial rank on recommendation of the faculty are eligible for promotion to emeritus status upon retirement. Customarily such faculty members will have served for at least ten years on the faculty of Boston University.” (From the Boston University Faculty Handbook)
To submit an emeritus appointment, use the Emeritus Appointment/Extension of Service form. Instructions for completing the form can be found here.
Adjunct appointments require the same documents as any initial appointment.
Secondary Appointments if done at the same time then the only additional document required is a letter form the Secondary Chair agreeing with the appointment. However, if not requested at the same time then a Vote Sheet, Face Sheet, memo to Provost Antman (with both Department Chair Signatures), and updated CV are then required.
For a promotion to Full Professor, please note: an electronic version of the curriculum vitae must be sent to busmdean@bu.edu (in subject line “For Professor Initial/Promotion – NAME”) Also, a disk containing the completed application file should be submitted to the Dean’s Office along with 6 hard copies of the promotion packet.
Click here for a full text of the “Boston University Medical Campus Policy for Appointment and Continuance of Appointments for Full-Time Faculty.”
Last Updated 6/21/07
