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FACULTY PERSONNEL PROCEDURES. PROMOTION AND TENURE 15.1 Basic Principles Underlying the Promotion and Tenure Process: Three principles that inform Central State University’s system of faculty promotion and tenure are fairness, significance and mutual benefit. Fairness requires that the criteria for promotion and tenure be clear, relevant, and known to the faculty member. Significance infers that meaningful requirements for promotion and tenure must contribute to making the University a place that values and cultivates substantial, high quality work. Evidence of performance must be relevant and high quality as well as quantitative. Mutual Benefit acknowledges that the Administration and the faculty are partners in the expenditure of time, money, and energy to achieve the University’s mission and improve its performance and that the work of both must contribute to the University’s mission and to the priorities of its strategic plan. Promotion recognizes a faculty member’s contributions to the missions of the department, college, and University; achievements in the areas of teaching, scholarly activity, and University service, depending on assigned duties; and continuing professional growth and development. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ensures the academic freedom that is essential to an atmosphere of intellectual pursuit and the attainment of the University’s mission. In addition, tenure reflects and recognizes a faculty member’s potential long-term value to the institution. Tenured faculty are not mere employees but are the community of educators who create institutional stability and an ongoing commitment to excellence. Therefore, decisions on tenure are different in kind from those on promotion. Tenure, in fact, is more exacting. In addition to demonstrating quality in the areas of teaching, scholarly activity, and University service, the candidate for tenure must demonstrate a commitment and capacity to share in the tasks, activities, and goals of the department, college, and University and do so with professional integrity. Tenure is recommended when the University's academic community agrees that the faculty member’s record represents a pattern indicative of a lifetime of continued accomplishment, productivity, and contribution to the University’s mission. a) Processes and bases for promotion and tenure will remain flexible to allow for individual uniqueness and creativity in performance. Criteria will not attempt to make all faculty members perform alike. b) Even though value judgments by those respons...

FACULTY PERSONNEL PROCEDURES. REAPPOINTMENT AND NON-REAPPOINTMENT DURING THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD 23 LEAVES OF ABSENCE 34

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