From the Daily Pennsylvanian: Provost John Jackson Jr. and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna announced the next steps toward establishing a new teaching track for full-time lecturers... A 12-member working group will provide recommendations on how to implement the new track in the associated faculty category, moving full-time lecturers away from their current designation as academic support staff. The advisory body was formed in response to the Faculty Senate’s push for a teaching faculty track, including a May resolution endorsed by the Senate Executive Committee.
According to the announcement, the working group aims to “draft language for the Faculty Handbook that identifies the central and distinctive elements of a new track” and “propose a process by which current full-time lecturers, senior lecturers, and advanced senior lecturers could be considered for the new track.” ...The original report, published in June, stated that “persistent concerns have been documented regarding the professional status, advancement opportunities, and evaluation processes” of full-time lecturers, who “frequently hold long-term or effectively career-length appointments” despite their formal classification as academic support staff... According to the Faculty Handbook, full-time lecturers are limited to three consecutive years of appointments with exceptions approved by the provost. Some full-time lecturers can be promoted to senior lecturers, for which “successive appointments are allowed.” ...
Full story at https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/10/penn-provost-teaching-faculty-track-lecturers-working-group.
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