Fixed Multi-Year. Appointment (FMYA)
A. Annual Evaluation. Each faculty member on a fixed multi-year appointment will be evaluated annually pursuant to Article 10.
B. Successive fixed multi-year appointments may be offered to fixed multi-year appointment faculty members as follows:
(1) The faculty member will be advised in the penultimate year of the appointment that to be considered for a successive fixed multi-year appointment, he or she must submit a written request and documentation pursuant to written procedures established by the university.
(2) Criteria and standards used to determine in which instances successive fixed appointments will be offered include: consideration of the basis for the initial fixed multi-year appointment, evaluation of performance, professional growth, extent and currency of professional qualifications, contribution to the mission of the department or program, staffing needs, funding source alternatives, and continuing program considerations. Such criteria and standards shall be in writing and available to all faculty members.
(3) These criteria and standards may be modified through a process that ensures significant involvement by unit faculty members. Approval of criteria and standards requires confirmation by a majority of the unit’s faculty members.
(4) The UFF must be notified of any proposed modifications of criteria and standards and offered an opportunity to discuss such modifications in consultation with the university President or representative. Changes in the criteria and standards shall not become effective until one (1) year following adoption of the changes, unless mutually agreed to in writing by the UFF President and the university President or representative. The date of adoption shall be the date on which the changes are approved by the administrator at the highest level required under applicable university policies and procedures.
(5) The university shall notify the faculty member in writing of its decision to offer or not offer a successive appointment by the beginning of the final year of the faculty member’s current appointment.
(6) If the faculty member receives written notice that he or she will not be offered a successive appointment, he or she may request a written statement of the basis for the decision. Within twenty (20) calendar days following receipt of such request, the President or representative shall provide the faculty member with written statement explicating the basis of this decision.
Fixed Multi-Year. Appointments
(1) Two- to five-year multi-year appointments may be offered for the following:
(a) Instructors, Senior Instructors, University Instructors, Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, and University Lecturers;
(b) Assistant Teaching Professors, Associate Teaching Professors, and Teaching Professors;
(c) Non-tenured or non-tenure earning Assistant Librarians, Associate Librarians, Librarians, Curators and Counselors/Advisors;
(d) Scholars/Scientists, Research Associates, and Associate In/Assistant In ;
(e) Clinical Faculty;
(f) Individuals who have officially retired from FIU and who are at least 55 years of age;
(g) Tenured employees who decide to give up their tenured status to take advantage of whatever incentives might be offered by a fixed multi-year appointment;
(h) Individuals who have held the rank of full professor for at least seven (7) years at an institution of higher education; and
(i) Individuals with substantial, highly specialized professional 2158 2159 2160 2161 2162 2163 2164 2165 2166 2167 2168 2169 2170 2171 2172 2173 2174 2175 2176 2177 2178 2179 2180 2181 2182 2183 2184 2185 2186 2187 2188 2189 2190 2191 2192 2193 2194 2195 2196 2197 2198 2199 2200 2201 experience who do not have terminal degrees that would qualify them for tenure-earning positions.
(2) Employees holding such fixed multi-year appointments may be terminated early under the provisions of Article 8 Layoff and Recall and under the BOT-UFF Policy on Disciplinary Action.
(3) Successive fixed multi-year appointments may be offered to eligible employees hired pursuant to Section 5(f)(1), above, as follows:
(a) Criteria used to determine in which instances to offer successive appointments include consideration of the basis for the initial fixed multi-year appointment, evaluation of performance, professional growth, extent and currency of professional qualifications, contribution to the mission of the department or program, staffing needs, funding source alternatives, and continuing program considerations. Such criteria shall be in writing and available to all eligible employees.
(b) The employee will be advised in the penultimate year of the appointment that to be considered for a successive fixed multi- year appointment, the employee must submit a request and written documentation pursuant to written procedures established by the University. The University shall notify the employee in writing of its decision to offer or not offer a successive appointment by theby the beginning ...
