Communications

Welcome to the 2008-2009 Provost’s Communications.  As you know, the Communications are designed to assist you in recruiting, evaluating, and retaining academic personnel of the highest quality.

Most revisions are minor but there are a couple more substantive changes. Please note the following:   

• Communication No. 4, "Faculty Excellence Program" - Criteria have changed for this program so please read Faculty Excellence Program on pages 1-2 of the communication.
• Please note that a new version of Communication 9 has been posted, which should be used for the 2009-2010 promotion and tenure process.
• Communication No. 17, “Program for Multi-Year Contracts for Eligible Academic Staff” - This is a new communication for 2008-2009.  Please read carefully.

2008-2009 Provost's Communications

• Contact Information
• Deadline Information
• Planning and Budgeting
  • Communication #1: Budgetary Principles and Practice
• Appointments
  • Communication #2: Offering Academic Positions
  • Communication #3: Appointments of Faculty and Academic Professionals
  • Communication #4: Faculty Excellence Program
  • Communication #5: Term Professorial Appointments ("Q" & "W" Appointments)
  • Communication #6: Named Faculty Appointments
  • Communication #7: Targets of Opportunity Program (TOP)
  • Communication #8: Dual Career Academic Couples Program
• Promotion and Tenure
  • Communication #9: 2009-2010 Promotion and Tenure
• Retirements, Resignations, and Termination of Faculty and Staff
  • Communication #10: Guidelines and Procedures for Notice of Nonreappointment for Nontenured Faculty Members and For Denials of Promotion Not Linked to Tenure Decisions
  • Communication #11: Guidelines and Procedures for Notice of Nonreappointment for Academic Professional Employees and Other Members of the Academic Staff
  • Communication #12: Policy for Awarding Emeritus/Emerita Status
• Probationary Period/Tenure Track Employees
• Communication #13: Review of Faculty in Year Three of the Probationary Period
• Communication #14: Special Tenure Code Provision for Appointments Beginning After the Eighth Week of the Academic Year
• Communication #15: Effect of Leave Without Pay on the Probationary Period
• Communication #16: Policy on Interruptions of the Probationary Period (Tenure Code Rollbacks)
• Contracts/Agreements
• Communication #17: Program for Multi-Year Contracts for Eligible Academic Staff
• Communication #18: Unassigned
• Leaves
  • Communication #19: Sabbatical Leaves of Absence
  • Communication #20: Leaves of Absence Without Pay
• Reviews
  • Communication #21: Annual Faculty Review
  • Communication #22: Annual Review of Academic Professional Employees
  • Communication #23: Appointment and Review of Faculty Members With Budgeted Joint Appointments
  • Communication #24: Five Year Review of Administrators