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ITHACA COLLEGE
POLICY MANUAL

The College reserves the right to change, upon appropriate notice, any of the policies and regulations found in the Ithaca College Policy Manual (ICPM).
Volume IV

Faculty Handbook: Policies and Procedures for Faculty
Adopted by the Ithaca College Board of Trustees August 12, 2002
(Click this link for an Adobe PDF version of Volume IV)

4.0 General Statement

4.1.1 Board Policy on Faculty Governance and Employment

4.1 Ranked Academic Faculty

4.1.1 Criteria for Appointment to Specific Ranked Faculty Status

4.1.2 Lecturer

4.1.3 Instructor

4.1.4 Assistant Professor

4.1.5 Associate Professor

4.1.6 Professor

4.1.7 Variance of Criteria

4.2 Clinical Faculty

4.3 Other Titles

4.3.1 Professor Emeritus/Emerita

4.3.2 Artist/Writer/Scholar-In-Residence

4.3.3 Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Associate Professor, and Visiting Professor

4.3.4 Librarians

4.3.5 Administrative Officers and Academic Rank

4.4 The Faculty's Obligations, Rights, Academic Freedom, and Code of Ethics

4.4.1 Academic Freedom and Responsibility

4.4.2 Indemnification

4.4.3 Violations of Faculty Rights, Academic Freedom, and Professional Ethics

4.5 Faculty Development

4.5.1 Sabbatical Leaves (see also section 4.8.1)

4.5.2 Policies Regarding External Activities

4.6 Workload

4.6.1 Academic Workload

4.6.2 Office Hours

4.7 Institutional Policies Pertaining to Faculty Conduct

4.7.1 Human and Laboratory Animal Subject Research

4.7.2 Scientific Misconduct

4.7.3 Plagiarism

4.7.4 Missed Classes

4.8 Faculty Leaves of Absence With and Without Pay

4.8.1 Sabbatical Leaves for Tenured Faculty

4.8.2 Unpaid Leaves of Absence

4.8.3 Reductions in Load

4.8.4 Leaves or Reductions in Load Due to Medical Reasons

4.9 Definitions and Types of Appointments

4.9.1 Term Appointments

4.9.2 Notice Appointments

4.9.3 Continuous Appointments (Tenure)

4.9.4 Part-Time Per-Course Appointments

4.9.5 Adjunct Appointments

4.9.6 Contracts and Contract Policies

4.9.7 Planning Units and Staffing Plans

4.9.8 Changes in Educational Programs and Staffing Plans

4.9.9 Combining Two Planning Units and Creating New Planning Units

4.10 Guidelines for Search, Appointment and Orientation of Faculty

4.10.1 General Guidelines

4.10.2 Search and Screen Guidelines

4.11 Faculty Personnel Records

4.11.1 Official Personnel File

4.11.2 Official Evaluation Folder

4.12 Evaluation of Faculty

4.12.1 General Information Regarding Evaluation

4.12.2 Policies and Procedures Regarding Faculty Appointments, Evaluation, Tenure and Promotion

4.12.3 Major Formal Evaluations of Tenure-Eligible Faculty

4.12.4 Procedures for Major Formal Evaluations of Tenure-Eligible Faculty

4.12.5 Confidentiality

4.12.6 Criteria for Major Formal Evaluations of Tenure-Eligible Faculty

4.12.7 Teaching, Scholarship/Professional Activity, Service

4.12.8 Documentation

4.12.9 Evaluation of Part-Time Per-Course and Adjunct Faculty

4.13 Tenure Appointments

4.13.1 Promotion Policies and Procedures

4.13.2 All-College Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee

4.13.3 Faculty Personnel Appeals Committee

4.14 Serious Instructional Deficiencies in Tenured Faculty

4.14.1 Identification of Deficiencies

4.14.2 Correction of Serious Instructional Deficiencies

4.14.3 Failure to Correct Serious Instructional Deficiencies

4.15 Separation

4.15.1 Resignation

4.15.2 Termination by Mutual Consent

4.15.3 Retirement

4.15.4 Notice of Non-Reappointment

4.15.5 Separation from Employment Due To Medical Reasons

4.15.6 Procedures for the Warning and Dismissal of a Faculty Member

4.16 Grievance Policy

4.16.1 Definitions

4.16.2 Scope of a Grievance

4.16.3 The Grievance Procedure

4.17 Amendment of Handbook


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Volume IV Implementation Date: 8/12/02
Last updated: May 20, 2011
This document is maintained by the Office of General Counsel. Send comments to: Bonnie LeBlanc

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