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Fingerprints
The Alabama Child Protection Act of 1999 requires all new employees who work, unsupervised,
with any person under the age of nineteen to have a criminal background check. They must be
fingerprinted and sign a written consent form permitting the criminal background information
check to be done. Birmingham-Southern College Campus Police handles the fingerprinting.
The State Department of Education provides a determination of suitability and informs the
College. Anyone refusing to submit to being fingerprinted will not be hired and will not have
the benefit of the procedures or remedies of this Chapter.
III. A.1.a. Definitions
The following definitions apply to the provisions of Chapter III.
a.i. Tenured Appointments: Tenure means the faculty member’s employment
shall not be terminated or academic rank reduced except in accordance
with nd and their subparts.
. Tenured and Tenure-Track Appointments: All tenure-track (probationary
for tenure) or tenured faculty position appointments are full-time. Except
for special appointments clearly designated as such at the outset in a
written contract, all full-time faculty appointments are either
probationary for tenure (“tenure-track”) or with tenure. All faculty
members who are probationary for tenure are considered to be on an
annual appointment (i.e., eligible for reappointment), unless the individual
employment contract provides otherwise. Tenured and Tenure-Track
Appointees may vote as faculty members.
a.iii. Full-time Term Appointments: Full-time faculty members who are not
tenured and not on tenure track will be on a term contract. This
classification is discussed more fully below in section Full-time
term appointees may vote as faculty members.
Part-time Appointees/Adjunct Faculty: Faculty members who teach less
than a full-time course load and/or perform less than full-time faculty
responsibilities shall not be covered by the rules and procedures of
Chapter III and are considered terminable at will. Part-time and adjunct
faculty members shall not have the right to vote as faculty members.
III.A.2. Tenure Status
It is the policy of Birmingham-Southern College to adhere to the principles of academic freedom
and tenure expressed in the
agreed upon by representatives of the Association of American Colleges and the American
Association of University Professors, and subsequently endorsed officially by their respective