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Faculty Performance PeriodUnless otherwise noted on the contract, full-time and research faculty appointments
are made for a period of one academic year. In the most common case, when faculty
are appointed for the fall and spring semesters, they are expected to be on
duty from the first faculty meeting of the academic year through spring commencement,
except for holidays noted in the university academic calendar; this period
is approximately nine months. In general, whatever their period of appointment,
faculty are expected to be on duty during the entirety of the semesters or
terms for which they are appointed, including opening faculty meetings, final
examinations, and commencement ceremonies. However, full-time teaching and research faculty also may be appointed for "alternative" contractual
periods that consist of two semesters or their equivalent. Rather than the
traditional academic year consisting of the fall and spring semester, this
alternative period may be comprised of only one of those semesters plus duties
during summer sessions equivalent to a single semester. The following provisions
apply in such cases: No tenured or tenure-track full-time faculty member may be appointed to
an alternative contractual period more than one year in every four without
his/her consent. A minimum of six months advance notice shall be provided
to a faculty member selected for an alternative contractual period. The date
of the new alternative contract will be used to determine notification requirements.
Faculty appointed to an alternative contractual period will receive the
same salary as they would have received had they been appointed to regular
fall and spring semester sessions.
Faculty appointed to an alternative contractual period will be regarded
as regular, full-time faculty for all personnel and fiscal purposes including
accrued seniority, years served toward tenure, health coverage, retirement,
and other fringe benefits.
Full-time faculty who have an alternative contract are eligible to work
during an "off-term" time period and earn extra compensation
as set forth in the Faculty Handbook section entitled "Extra Compensation
in 'Off-Term' Sessions." For example, a faculty member
who is appointed for the fall semester and the summer sessions will be eligible
for employment (including research employment) during the spring semester,
but the faculty member's salary rate neither may exceed the weekly
equivalent (1/39th) of the normal academic year salary of the individual,
nor may the total in the "off-term" exceed (13/39=1/3) of the
normal academic year salary. The salaries of full-time faculty members during
the "off-term" period are calculated according to a step-by-rank
schedule available from the Office of the Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs.
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