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will not unilaterally modify subparts A and B of Chapter III in a manner that would modify the
individual contract of a faculty member.
III.A. TYPES OF CONTRACTS
The College will enter a written employment contract with all persons hired by the College as
full-time faculty members. The agreement will provide the individual terms of employment
including compensation, contract category, benefits, and other essential terms. The faculty
member’s individual contract and, if explicitly incorporated therein by reference, the procedures
provided in this Chapter shall govern the legal relationship between the faculty member and the
College. Joint faculty-staff person appointments are not issued by Birmingham-Southern
College. In exceptional circumstances where a person is to be hired to serve both as a faculty
and a staff member of the College, two separate contracts are issued, and such contracts are only
issued after consultation with the Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Faculty. Part-time
and/or adjunct faculty and staff personnel of the College shall not be governed by the rules and
procedures of this Chapter and shall be either terminable at will or governed solely by the terms
of an individual written agreement, if any, with the College.
III.A.1. New Faculty Appointments
Appointments to the Faculty begin with a search for qualified candidates. Announcements
concerning the College's search appear in the appropriate professional publications and/or
websites. Applicants are asked to submit a curriculum vitae and references to the appropriate
Department Chair or the Provost of the College. Application materials are reviewed by the
Search Committee, and the Search Committee’s recommendations for interviews are forwarded
to the Provost. The Provost then approves the extension of invitations to candidates for campus
interviews. The Department Chair is responsible for initiating the search for new members of his
or her Department and arranging for on-campus interviews. Funds for the recruitment of faculty
members are available and are administered through the Provost’s Office. Following these
interviews, the Search Committee presents its recommendations to the Provost. The Provost
makes the final recommendations to the President.
All appointments to the Faculty of the College are made by the President upon the
recommendation of the Provost. The Provost recommends appropriate rank and salary for the
candidate to the President, who then writes a letter of appointment to the candidate. This letter
of appointment shall serve as the first contract between the College and the new faculty member,
supplemented by the applicable procedural provisions contained in subparts A and B of Chapter
III of this
Handbook
. After the initial appointment, the College will present a contract annually
to each faculty member who will teach during the next year. The rules and procedures provided
in reference to applicants and recruitment are for the benefit of the College and shall not inure to
the individual benefit of any person not hired or who does not enter a written contract with the
College.