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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.