Presidential and Faculty Responsibilities. The parties recognize that scholars have a particular responsibility to exercise their expertise in a particular field or activity and to judge the work of their colleagues. In the exercise of such expertise it is implicit that responsibility exists for both adverse and favorable judgments. In the areas of appointments, reappointments, decisions not to reappoint, promotions, the granting of tenure, and dismissal, the exercise of faculty judgment through faculty personnel committees is essential to the pursuit of fulfillment of the goal of academic excellence. It is recognized that the President has the particular responsibility for the proper allocation of resources within the University and the effective use of the facilities and personnel available. The President is the chief planning officer of the institution and has a special obligation to innovate, initiate and revitalize. The President may at times be required, working within the concept of tenure, to identify and to solve problems of obsolescence. In reallocating personnel and resources to solve these problems, the President will necessarily utilize the judgments of faculty, but in the interest of academic standards, the President may also seek outside evaluations by scholars of acknowledged competence. Any reallocation of personnel or realignment of programs must be in accordance to Article 14 that discusses Financial Exigency and Academic Reorganization.
