Renewal of Preliminary Appointments for Faculty Employees. The parties agree that appeals concerning renewal of preliminary appointments shall be within the jurisdiction of the Tenure Appeal Committee of the Senate and that the decision of the Tenure Appeal Committee of the Senate shall be final and binding on the parties.
Renewal of Preliminary Appointments for Faculty Employees. (i) Every full-time appointment to the rank of lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor or professor will be either an appointment with tenure or an appointment without tenure. An appointment with tenure is a permanent appointment with the features of tenure described in the preamble of Appendix A. A preliminary appointment without tenure is an appointment made for a stated period, normally of one (1), two (2) or three (3) years. A preliminary appointment is one made in expectation that it will be renewed and at some time be succeeded by an appointment with tenure if such an appointment is merited.
Renewal of Preliminary Appointments for Faculty Employees. The parties agree that appeals concerning renewal of preliminary appointments shall be within the jurisdiction of the Tenure Appeal Committee of the Senate and that the decision of the Tenure Appeal Committee of the shall be final and binding on the parties. The Granting of Tenure The parties agree that the decisions of the Tenure Appeal Committee of the Senate shall be final and binding on the parties. The holder of a preliminary cross-appointment shall be formally considered for tenure within a time frame specified in paragraph A3 and by the departmental and faculty committees as specified in paragraphs to of Appendix A, subject to the following: where the appointment is between two departments in the same faculty, a joint departmental committee shall be constituted in accordance with Article where the appointment is divided equally between two faculties, the joint departmental committee shall make a single recommendation to the two Faculty Tenure Committees, which shall make separate recommendations to the President; if the Faculty Tenure Committees' recommendations conflict with each other, each recommendation shall be forwarded to an ad hoc University Committee, appointed and chaired by the Vice-president (Academic) with equal representation from each faculty. Members of the Faculty Tenure Committees may not serve on the ad hoc Committee. The ad hoc Committee shall determine its own procedures and make a final recommendation to the President; where the appointment is more than in one faculty (the 'majority faculty'), the joint departmental committee shall have membership proportional to the weighting of the cross-appointment, and shall be chaired by a member of the majority department. The Committee shall make its recommendation to the Faculty Tenure Committee of the majority faculty, which shall make its recommendation to the President. All other provisions of the collective agreement and Appendix A shall apply to consideration and tenure decisions for cross-appointees. Tenure consideration in the School of Business shall be governed by the provisions of the collective agreement and Appendix A as modified by Appendix There shall be no restriction on the operation of established tenure policies and procedures. Establishment of a fixed proportion of tenured to non-tenured faculty shall be considered such a restriction.
