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  • Matters of Department Governance and related procedures
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    • Matters of Department Governance and related procedures Overview
    • Definition of the faculty
    • Administrative and Service Positions
    • Department Committees
    • Recruiting Faculty
    • Grievance Procedure
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  • Teaching assignments and workload including workload equivalencies and related procedures
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    • Teaching assignments and workload including workload equivalencies and related procedures Overview
    • Faculty Workload and Workload Equivalents
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    • Summer Teaching Assignments
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    • Reappointment, tenure and promotion criteria and the criteria and processes relating to other faculty personnel actions Overview
    • Reappointment of TT faculty
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    • Criteria for Tenure and Promotion of TT faculty on the Campus
    • Criteria for Tenure and Promotion of TT faculty at the Regional Campuses
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    • Criteria, performance expectations, and Department procedures relating to Faculty Excellence Awards Overview
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    • Other Department guidelines Overview
    • Department objectives
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    • Faculty Ranks
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    • Faculty Code of Ethics
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Research Associate Professor and Research Assistant Professor

These ranks are reserved for individuals who are engaged in research and who are not normally assigned teaching responsibilities.   Such positions are typically supported by extramural grant funds and are not tenure‐track appointments.   Faculty who hold these ranks do not vote on Department committees and do not participate in Department governance.

  1. Matters of Department Governance and related procedures
  2. Teaching assignments and workload including workload equivalencies and related procedures
  3. Reappointment, tenure and promotion criteria and the criteria and processes relating to other faculty personnel actions
  4. Criteria, performance expectations, and Department procedures relating to Faculty Excellence Awards
  5. Other Department guidelines
    1. Department objectives
    2. Faculty Appointments
    3. Faculty Ranks
      1. Instructor
      2. Assistant Professor
      3. Associate Professor
      4. Professor
      5. Research Associate Professor and Research Assistant Professor
    4. Role and Responsibility of the Faculty
    5. Faculty Code of Ethics
    6. Outside Employment and Other Outside Activities
    7. Copyright Restrictions
    8. Academic Misconduct
    9. Handbook modification, amendment, and revision
Math Faculty Handbook
University Faculty Handbook

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