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Librarians may teach courses with the permission of the Provost and the Director of the Library.
Librarians will be called upon for service on faculty committees and special task forces, hold a
place on the Curriculum and Standards Committee, and may be elected to the Faculty Advisory
Committee. Tenured professional librarians may also be elected to the Faculty Development
Committee, and the Faculty Committee on Promotion and Tenure.
Librarians will be assigned set working hours, accrue annual leave, accrue sick leave, and
complete monthly attendance reports for the Human Resources Office.
III.A.4. Full-Time Term Contracts (Non-tenured; Non-tenure-track)
The terms of the full-time term contract shall govern the relationship between the College and
the particular faculty member. However, the following is a general description of the nature of a
full-time term contract appointment.
a. The appointment of a non-tenured, non-tenure-track faculty member with a one-
year full-time term contract is terminal at the end of the defined term. Thus, the
College is not required to issue any notice of the expiration of a one-year term
contract, and when it expires the employment ends without recourse under these
rules.
b. After a non-tenure-track faculty member has worked full-time for the College for
six years, the College shall offer the faculty member a rolling two-year contract.
Each year, the faculty member is offered a new two-year appointment. In the case
of non-reappointment, the Provost shall inform the faculty member by September
1 of the second year of the two-year contract that the faculty member will not be
given a new two-year contract and therefore is beginning the final year of
appointment. The grievance procedure provided below in is not available
and shall not apply to faculty members with full-time term contracts except in the
case of the College’s decision to cancel the second year of the term contract for
cause. However, in the event of a termination for cause prior to the end of
contract term, the faculty member with a term contract may use the
review procedure.
In the case of non-reappointment, at the discretion of the Provost, the College may either allow
the faculty member to continue to fulfill the faculty member’s appointment duties during the
second year of the two-year appointment, or the College may terminate employment
immediately and pay the faculty member a lump sum equal to the salary and retirement benefits
contributions, if any, that would be due during the second year of the appointment, and
reimburse the faculty member for the actual, out-of-pocket cost of health insurance continuation
coverage for the remaining appointment term.
III.A.5. Annual Contract Renewal
Written contracts are sent annually by the President or Provost to all members of the Faculty.