Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3359 - University of Akron
Chapter 3359-9 - Classified and Unclassified Civil Service; Full-Time; Notice Procedure
Section 3359-9-02 - General academic and administrative personnel matters
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3359-9-02
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Categories of full-time faculty. The full-time faculty of the university of Akron comprises all university employees who have been appointed as full-time faculty by the board of trustees. The following constitute categories of full-time faculty of the university of Akron and the responsibilities of those within each category:
(1)
Regular
faculty.
(a)
The
regular faculty is composed of all full-time faculty who have been awarded
indefinite tenure or are eligible to be awarded indefinite tenure. Such faculty
hold the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or the
title of distinguished professor.
(b)
Members of the
regular faculty generally have a full range of responsibilities, including
teaching, research, scholarship and other creative professional work, and
service to the unit, the university and the public.
(2)
Non-tenure-track
bargaining unit faculty.
(a)
Non-tenure-track bargaining unit faculty are full-time
faculty who are not regular faculty and subject to the collective bargaining
agreement. expectation for these faculty positions is that they will continue
as long as the university identifies the need for them, and that if the
university's needs or goals change, such positions may be modified or
eliminated. These faculty, some of who may hold a three-year appointment, may
reasonably expect that they will not be terminated without just cause. However,
satisfactory performance cannot guarantee reappointment.
(b)
These
non-tenure-track faculty are categorized into three rank levels. The initial
ranks are college lecturer and instructor, the intermediate ranks are associate
college lecturer and associate instructor, and the highest ranks are senior
college lecturer and senior instructor. Faculty holding a college lecturer rank
shall primarily have teaching duties, while faculty holding an instructor rank
shall have teaching duties as well as service and/or research duties
appropriate to the current needs of the academic unit. The specific duties of
college lecturers and instructors shall be specified clearly in the appointment
letter.
(c)
In particular, the instructional load for college
lecturers includes instructional support activities related to a specific
course, with a limit of three different course preparations per semester.
Instructional support activities include lecture preparation, assignment
preparation and grading, holding office hours, supervising recitation
instructors associated with the course, and similar activities. Activities that
are not assignable to college lecturers include student advising and laboratory
administration. Non-tenure-track bargaining unit faculty required to engage in
these or other activities, such as scholarly research or college level service
committees, must be classified as instructors and must receive an appropriate
teaching load credit to support those activities.
(3)
Other
non-tenure-track non-bargaining unit faculty. The non-tenure-track
non-bargaining unit faculty comprises all adjunct, temporary, visiting,
research, and school of law faculty, including clinical professors of law and
professors of legal writing.
(a)
Clinical professors of law and professors of legal
writing. Such faculty hold the title of clinical professor of law, associate
clinical professor of law, assistant clinical professor of law, professor of
legal writing, associate professor of legal writing, or assistant professor of
legal writing. The expectation for these faculty positions is that they will
continue as long as the university identifies the need for them, and that if
the university's needs or goals change, such positions may be modified or
eliminated.
(b)
Research faculty. Such faculty hold the title of
research professor, associate research professor, or assistant research
professor. The expectation for these faculty positions is that they will
continue as long as the university identifies the needs for them, and that if
the university's needs or goals change, such positions may be modified or
eliminated.
(c)
Similar titles and expectations for adjunct, temporary
and visiting faculty positions shall exist.
(B) Appointments and tenure.
Without limiting the authority of the board as conferred and defined by law to act in such matters upon its own motion, the following principles and rules shall govern the appointment and position status of university faculty:
(1)
University
faculty shall be appointed by the board upon recommendation of the president of
the university. The appointment shall normally be for an initial period of one
year, but the board may make the initial period longer than the first year in
appropriate circumstances, as determined by the board.
(2)
Non-tenure-track
bargaining unit faculty and other non-tenure track faculty shall be subject to
annual reappointment and shall receive annual notices of reappointment if their
continued service is desired, except that the board may grant longer
appointments for such faculty as set out below.
(3)
The board may
grant fixed-term appointments longer than one year to non-tenure-track faculty.
During the term of such appointments, these appointments may be terminated only
for just cause related to the performance of the incumbent or for programmatic
or economic reasons related to the characteristics of the position (as opposed
to the characteristics or performance of the incumbent! Except as set out in
paragraph (B)(4) of this rule
these appointments create no expectation of
appointment, and the board may decline to reappoint an incumbent in its sole
discretion.
(4)
The board may grant fixed-term appointments as set out
in paragraph (B)(3) of this rule
with a presumption that the incumbent will be
reappointed unless the incumbent's performance does not support reappointment
or unless the position is terminated for programmatic or economic reasons. Such
appointments do not constitute tenure and do not establish any of the rights or
protections of tenure beyond the rights or protections described
in
paragraphs (B)(3) and (B)(4) of this rule.
(5)
The period of one
year means that the faculty member has an academic year appointment unless
otherwise noted and the faculty member's services are required according to the
period specified in paragraph (F) of this rule.
(C) Academic administrators with faculty status:
(1)
Faculty status for administrators.
(a)
University of
Akron faculty members who assume administrative positions within the university
shall retain an academic appointment in a department, school, or college in
which they have been granted indefinite tenure.
(b)
Persons who are
recruited by the university to serve exclusively or primarily in the academic
administrative positions may also be granted an appointment at appropriate
academic rank in the department, or. where appropriate, school, or college of
their discipline. They may also apply for indefinite tenure in that faculty
position.
(2)
The search committee for the administrative position
shall present the full vita of each finalist to the tenure committee of the
department that the search committee deems suitable and give the department
committee an opportunity to interview the candidate. A professorial appointment
in that department shall not be made without the concurrence of the
departmental tenure committee and (with the exception of the appointment of a
dean of the same college) the dean of the college.
(3)
If an
administrative academic appointment is made, the administrator may apply to the
departmental tenure committee for indefinite tenure. The procedures to be
followed shall be those adopted by that department or. where appropriate,
school, or college, for its faculty members, but the following criteria shall
be taken into consideration:
(a)
Because the administrator has been performing other
duties since leaving a full-time teaching/research assignment, the record of
accomplishment in the discipline shall be judged in comparison with faculty
members with similar years of academic experience at the time when the
administrator left a full-time teaching/research assignment.
(b)
Because an
administrator may not be current with recent developments in the academic
discipline, the committee shall consider if the candidate could function as a
typical member of that department within one year after relinquishing the
administrative appointment.
(D) Evaluations. Evaluations of the competencies of each faculty member are made at least annually to determine effectiveness in the performance of duties, and these evaluations shall be transmitted to the faculty member by the department chair or dean. These evaluations are based upon the evidence of appropriate scholarship, the quality of teaching, professional demeanor, the amount and value of continued advanced study, the worth of research and publications, professional recognition received, and service to the university and community.
Replaces: 3359-9-02
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