How to submit Request for Personal Circumstances Flag

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This Personal Circumstances Flag offers tenured and professional/non-tenure track faculty the opportunity to designate a year within the scope of a multi-year review as having been impacted by personal circumstances (similar to the probationary period extension process that is available for tenure-track faculty).

This page contains instructions about the DocuSign form that will route to the appropriate contacts specified below for review. This form may be filled out by either a faculty member or by a staff member in the dean’s office.


Filled out by Faculty Member

Please have the name and email address of the following contacts ready before beginning a new request

  1. Faculty Member
  2. Staff Contact (will be notified of request status)
  3. Staff Contact of Dual Appointment College / School
    • Leave blank if not applicable 
  4. Department Chair (if departmentalized College / School)
    • Leave blank if not applicable 
  5. Dean

Docusign

Submit Request - Faculty Member

Click to begin this process if you are a faculty member filling out your own form.

Filled out by Dean’s office support

Please have the name and email address of the following contacts ready before beginning a new request

  1. Faculty Member
  2. Staff Contact (will be notified of request status)
  3. Staff Contact of Dual Appointment College / School
    • Leave blank if not applicable 
  4. Department Chair (if departmentalized College / School)
    • Leave blank if not applicable 
  5. Dean

Docusign

Submit Request - Dean's office support

Click to begin this process if you are a filling out this form on behalf of a faculty member.

Full Information

For full details about the Request for Personal Circumstances Flag process, please visit: provost.utexas.edu/the-office/faculty-affairs/personal-circumstances-flag/

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