(A)
A tenure
initiating unit is a division, department, school, or college approved by the
council on academic affairs, the university senate, and the board of trustees.
A tenure initiating unit has the following responsibilities for all faculty
members assigned to it: to assist in professional development; to evaluate; to
maintain official personnel records; and to initiate promotion, tenure,
reappointment, and nonrenewal recommendations. The office of academic affairs
shall be responsible for maintaining the official list of tenure initiating
units.
(B)
A single division, department, school, or college must
serve as the tenure initiating unit for each tenure-track faculty member,
including individuals with multiple appointments. Multiple appointments to the
tenure-track faculty totaling fifty per cent or more of service to the
university shall be considered to be the same as a single appointment of fifty
per cent or more for the purpose of determining eligibility for
tenure.
(C)
A tenure-track faculty member may change from one
tenure initiating unit to another voluntarily; or as a result of the
restructuring of academic units, including consolidation, reorganization, or
abolishment; or as a result of the abolishment of a tenure initiating unit
during conditions of financial exigency. The following provisions govern such
changes:
(1)
A
faculty member may voluntarily move from one tenure initiating unit to another
upon approval of a simple majority of all tenured faculty members in the
receiving tenure initiating unit and, following consultation with the
appropriate dean(s), the executive vice president and provost. Administrative
approval will be dependent on whether satisfactory fiscal arrangements for the
change have been made.
(2)
A faculty member's tenure initiating unit may be
changed as a result of structural changes in academic units, including
consolidation or reorganization of units, or abolishment of units, that are
approved by the university senate and board of trustees.
(a)
When academic
units are to be consolidated or reorganized, resulting in the creation of one
or more new tenure initiating units, the plan for relocating faculty to the new
tenure initiating units shall be part of the approved restructuring proposal.
Change in tenure initiating unit resulting from the consolidation or
reorganization of academic units shall not require the consent of individual
faculty members whose tenure initiating unit is changed. In addition, since a
receiving unit does not exist when new units are being created, no vote of such
a unit will be required in relocating faculty.
(b)
When a tenure
initiating unit is to be abolished and is not part of a plan to consolidate or
reorganize two or more units into new tenure initiating units, every effort
shall be made by the executive vice president and provost to transfer each
tenure-track faculty member in that tenure initiating unit to another tenure
initiating unit, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (C) of this
rule. Should such agreement be impossible, the person's tenure responsibility
shall reside with the executive vice president and provost. The executive vice
president and provost shall assign the faculty member appropriate duties. If
the faculty member's previous assignment has been at a regional campus, the
executive vice president and provost shall consult with the dean and director
of the regional campus regarding an appropriate assignment.
(3)
A
tenure-track faculty member whose tenure initiating unit is abolished during
conditions of financial exigency, as described in rule 3335-5-02.1 of the
Administrative Code, may be reassigned to a new tenure initiating unit under
the terms of paragraph (C)(1) of rule 3335-5-02.2 of the Administrative
Code.
(D)
When tenure-track faculty members change tenure
initiating units under paragraphs (C)(2) and (C)(3) of this rule, the new
tenure initiating units shall make reasonable efforts to assist faculty members
in adjusting to the expectations of the new unit. Faculty members who believe
that some other unit may be more appropriate than their new tenure initiating
unit may also explore the possibility of further relocation under the terms of
paragraph (C)(1) of this rule.
Replaces: 3335-6-06
