Conditions of Annual and Indefinite Tenure Appointments. Appointments that are tenure track are for full-time faculty with academic rank of Assistant Professor or higher. These appointments require faculty members to serve a probationary period of employment before a consideration for tenure is made. Tenure-track appointments shall not include any right to permanent or continuous employment, shall not create any manner of legal right, interest, or expectancy of renewal or any other type of appointment, and shall be subject to annual renewal by the University. Tenure track appointments for instructional faculty are normally 36 credit hours of instruction and 9 hours of committee, advising, scholarship, and service work for a total of 45 load credits per academic year. Tenure track appointments for library faculty are normally described in an associated position description, with 36 load hours devoted to specified areas of librarianship, and 9 load hours for scholarship, service to the institution, or service to the broader community. Library Faculty do not typically have instructional load as part of librarianship, unless stated in the position description.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
