The faculty handbook is under review for revisions and updates

This site is a collection point for input from the faculty on areas that need attention in the current faculty handbook.

There are a few simple rules for participating in this process:

• Use the "Edit" link on any page to enter any text you wish.
• DO NOT remove text entered by others. Simply add your comments to what is there. You can insert comments after someone else's on a particular topic, or add a section of your own. I suggest that additions be made at the beginning, rather than the end of a page so that new entries are easy to see.
• You do not have to sign your name, but that does make it easier for people to respond to you. If you prefer to be anonymous you can. There is no way to trace the entry back to you. (Well, if someone really wanted to plow through the web logs and do some analysis, it might be possible to narrow it down to a small group, but it is not going to happen.)
• If you want to make a whole new page, just make an entry on the original page that has the form WordWord^?, where the Words are whatever you want. Two words not separated by a space generate a new page. It will appear at first as the words with a question mark at the end. You can then click on the question mark to get a whole new page to enter whatever you want. That might be a good way to do a suggested new text for a section, for example.
• Note that there is help for formatting at the bottom of each page. You do not have to do anything fancy, but if you want bulleted lists, or italics, or something, the instructions are there.

Hoping that this is a productive process for the review and revision of a very important document for all of us.

-Boots Cassel

BriefHistory

AcademicDismissal

AcademicIntegrity

AuditPrivileges at Other Institutions

AwardsGiven to Faculty Members

ClassAttendance

CATS (Course and TeacherSurvey)

Commencement, Convocations, and SpecialEvents

CommencementWalkers

ConflictofInterest

Conventions and ProfessionalMeetings

Course and ClassRegulations

CoursepacksandCopyrights

Deans: ProtocolforSelection

Deans: Protocol for EvaluationofAcademic Deans

DepartmentChairs, Role

Department Chairs, ProtocolforSelection

DisabilitiesStudent

DisciplineofStudents

Discrimination and HarassmentPolicies

Dismissal and SuspensionProcedure for Faculty

FederalEducational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Policy

ExaminationsPolicy

GradesandAssessments

GrievancePolicy

IntellectualProperty Policy

LanguageUse: Written and Oral Communications on Campus

LeaveofAbsence (Unpaid)

MisconductinScience

NamingUniversity Assets Nomination Form, Policy and Guidelines

NewCourses and New Academic Degrees, Programs, Majors, Minors, Concentrations

Office Hours and StudentAccess

Outside Teaching and ProfessionalWork

PatentPolicy

PublicationsPolicy

PublicRelations

Rank and TenurePolicy

ReligiousHolidays

ResearchSupport Program

ResearchSubjects

RetirementPolicy

SabbaticalLeave

Sale of TeachingMaterials Written by Faculty Members

SexualHarassment Policy

Sexual and RomanticRelations Between Faculty and Students

SmokingPolicy

SponsoredResearch

StudentComplaintsaboutFaculty

SubventionofPublications

SummerTeaching

SyllabiPolicy

TeachingLoadandOverloadTeaching

TeachingSupportProgram

TravelWithStudents

Voting in DepartmentalMeetings

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