The chief administrative officer of a college, after giving consideration to recommendations of academic employees, including the committees, if any, of the appropriate department or professional area and other appropriate sources in connection with promotion of a specific academic employee, may promote, or recommend to the chancellor for promotion, such persons as are, in the chief administrative officer's judgment, best qualified. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the chief administrative officer of a college from taking such promotion action as the chief administrative officer may deem appropriate to the operating requirements of the college.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 8 § 336.5