Common use of TENURE APPOINTMENT Clause in Contracts

TENURE APPOINTMENT. ‌ A tenure contract entitles a faculty unit member to reemployment from year to year until such time as the faculty unit member resigns or retires, is discharged for cause (Article XV, Code of Conduct — Discipline – Just Cause), or is terminated pursuant to a reduction of personnel (Article XVI, Faculty Unit Member Reduction Procedures). Tenure involves a mutual commitment between the institution and the most expert of its faculty members. Tenure encourages outstanding faculty members to remain at the institution. By virtue of the rigorous standards that must be met to receive tenure, tenure secures for students and the South Dakota public distinctive, informed advice. Tenure safeguards the content and delivery of the curriculum by assuring their oversight by a faculty that understands the norms for quality expected in the academy and the workforce. Tenure contributes to the expansion of knowledge and to the growth of the state’s economic, cultural and community resources by assuring competent oversight for the design and conduct of research, scholarship and creative artistic endeavor. A tenure contract may be granted for less than a full-time appointment, in which case the holder will have an expectation of continued part-time employment at the percentage of time stipulated without any expectation of continued employment at full-time or at any greater percentage of time. The grant of tenure to a person whose appointment is split between professorial and librarian ranks shall be deemed be a tenure contract for less than a full-time appointment. A tenure contract granted by an institution will be valid at that institution and at the discretion of other institutions, may be transferable to other institutions within the system.

TENURE APPOINTMENT. ‌ A tenure contract entitles a faculty unit member to reemployment from year to year until such time as the faculty unit member resigns resigns, or retires, is discharged for cause (Article XV, Code of Conduct — Discipline – Conduct--Discipline--Just Cause), or is terminated pursuant to a reduction of personnel (Article XVI, Faculty Unit Member Reduction Procedures). Tenure involves a mutual commitment between the institution and the most expert of its faculty members. Tenure encourages outstanding faculty members to remain at the institution. By virtue of the rigorous standards that must be met to receive tenure, tenure secures for students and the South Dakota public distinctive, informed advice. Tenure safeguards the content and delivery of the curriculum by assuring their oversight by a faculty that understands the norms for quality expected in the academy and the workforce. Tenure contributes to the expansion of knowledge and to the growth of the state’s economic, cultural and community resources by assuring competent oversight for the design and conduct of research, scholarship and creative artistic endeavor. A tenure contract may be granted for less than a full-time appointment, in which case the holder will have an expectation of continued part-time employment at the percentage of time stipulated without any expectation of continued employment at full-time or at any greater percentage of time. The grant of tenure to a person whose appointment is split between professorial and librarian ranks shall be deemed be a tenure contract for less than a full-time appointment. A tenure contract granted by an institution will be valid at that institution and at the discretion of other institutions, may be transferable to other institutions within the system.