ACADEMIC POLICIES & PROCEDURES

Faculty Personnel Policies

• Faculty Personnel Policy
• Membership
• Regular Faculty
• Types of Appointments to Faculty
• Supplemental Faculty
• Length of Appointments
• Initial Appointments to the Regular Faculty
• Appointments to the Supplemental Faculty
• Appointments to the Summer Teaching Faculty
• Full and Part-Time Appointments
• Academic Rank and Promotion of Faculty
• Rank or Promotion Granted By board of Regents
• Principal Academic Ranks of the University
• Experience Requirements
• Education and Experience Requirements
• Criteria for Promotion in Rank
• Effective Classroom Teaching
• Scholarship/Research
• Contributions to the Institution and the Profession
• Performance of Non-Teaching or Administrative Duties
• Exceptions
• Promotion Process
• Concepts and Understandings Regarding Rank and Promotion Policies
• Academic Tenure
• Periods of Appointment and Tenure
• Procedure for Granting Tenure and Reviewing for Tenured Faculty
• Concepts Regarding Tenure
• Causes for Dismissal or Suspension of Tenured Faculty
• Suspension of a Tenured Faculty Member
• Dismissal of a Tenured Faculty Member for Cause
• Disciplinary Action Other Than Dismissal or Suspension
• Dismissal of Tenured Faculty for Program Discontinuance or Financial Retrenchment
• Appellate Committee on Dismissal of Tenured Faculty Members
• Appeal Procedures for Tenured Faculty
• Non-Tenured Faculty
• Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility
• Academic Freedom
• Academic Responsibility
• Faculty Development and Evaluation Policies
• Faculty Evaluation System
• Procedures
• Procedural Principles and Guidelines
• Faculty Development and Evaluation Process
• Faculty Evaluation Guide
• Faculty Load
• Teaching
• Scholarship/Research
• Contributions to the Institution and to the Profession
• Performance of Non-teaching or Administrative Duties
• Department Head Load
  • Teaching
  • Scholarship/Research
  • Contributions to the Institution and to the Profession
  • Administrative Duties
• Department Head Selection and Retention
  • Terms of Appointment
  • Evaluation of the Department Head
  • Replacement of Department Heads for Cause
• Regulations Affecting Faculty and Department Head Load
  • Calculation of Teaching Load
  • Office Hours
  • Absences from Duty
  • Outside Employment
• Nepotism