Faculty granted tenure are Eric Wade Cox (political science), Mark Dennis (religion), William A. Roche (philosophy), David Patrick Sandell (sociology & anthropology), James M. Scott (political science), Lisa Kay Vanderlinden (sociology & anthropology), Jon Chandler Carr (management), Jacqueline J. Lambiase (journalism), Daxton R. Stewart (journalism), Malinda L. Crawford (education), Yuan Xiong Lu (music), Sally June Packard (art), Sergiy Volooymyrov Dzyuba (chemistry), John Millard Holbrook (geology), Efstathios Michaelides (engineering) and Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir (psychology).
Faculty promoted to the rank of professor are Paul Louis Witt (communication studies) and Brian Ashley West (music).
Those promoted to the rank of associate professor are Eric Wade Cox (political science), Mark Dennis (religion), William A. Roche (philosophy), David Patrick Sandell (sociology & anthropology), Lisa Kay Vanderlinden (sociology & anthropology), Jon Chandler Carr (management), Daxton R. Stewart (journalism), Yuan Xiong Lu (music), Sergiy Volooymyrov Dzyuba (chemistry) and Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir (psychology).
Faculty promoted to the rank of assistant professor of professional practice are Lynette Luttre Howington and Mary K. Schnell of Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences and Becky Bellatti Bittle and Billy J. Farmer of the College of Science & Engineering.
Faculty given the rank of instructor II are Cynthia M. Chapa (modern languages and literatures), Janis Jaynes Quesada (religion) and Curt Nelson Rode (English).
The following faculty were recommended to emeritus status, effective upon retirement: Stanley B. Block (finance), John A. Breyer (geology), J. Michael Dodson (political science), Gregg E. Franzwa (philosophy), Robert P. Garwell (music), William Thomas Slater (journalism) and Ronald G. Watson (art).