Common use of Appointment to Faculty Ranks Clause in Contracts

Appointment to Faculty Ranks. (a) An Instructor employee may be appointed to a faculty rank where a suitable vacancy occurs, and his/her qualifications are demonstrably equal to those of the best external applicant who meets the requirements of the position. (b) However, an Instructor employee holding a preliminary or confirmed appointment may in exceptional circumstances be transferred to faculty rank with the same appointment status without there being a suitable vacancy when: (i) his/her research or scholarship in an appropriate discipline is of a caliber and nature normally required for a faculty appointment; (ii) his/her qualifications meet those normally required for a faculty appointment; and, (iii) he/she is doing a job which is effectively the same as that normally required of a faculty employee. Recommendation for such a transfer shall be made by the departmental promotion committee to the faculty promotion committee and then to the appropriate xxxx.