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I. FOREWORD
II.
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. A Short History of American University
2. The University and the United Methodist Church
3. Statement of Common Purpose
4. The Washington College of Law
5. Academic Freedom at American University
III. UNIVERSITY ORGANIZATION AND POLICY-MAKING
6. Administrative Organization of the University
7. Academic Policy‑Making Bodies
a. The Board of Trustees
b. The University Senate
c. Educational Policy Committees and Teaching
Unit Councils
8. Washington College of Law Governance
a. Dean of the Washington College of Law
b. The Faculty of the Washington College of Law
c. Washington College of Law Committee on Rank
and Tenure
d. Washington College of Law Committee on Appointments
e. Washington College of Law Committee on Standards
and Evaluations and Library
f. The Dean of Academic Affairs
g. The University Committee on Faculty Grievances
h. Faculty Hearing Committee
9. Provisions for Handling Faculty Appointments, Reappointment,
Promotion, Tenure, and Grievances
a. Washington College of Law Faculty Personnel
Procedures
b. Review of Washington College of Law Faculty
Personnel Decisions
IV. FACULTY REGULATIONS
10. Faculty Rank: General Conditions of Appointment
a. Full‑Time Faculty
b. Visiting Faculty
c. In‑Residence Faculty
d. Emeriti/ae Faculty
e. Adjunct Faculty
f. Status of Professional Staff
g. Research Faculty
h. Faculty Fellows
i. Administrative Officers and Staff Members with
Faculty Rank
j. Temporary Faculty
k. Affiliate Faculty
11. General Criteria Used in Evaluation of Faculty Members
a. Educational and Professional Background
b. Effective Teaching
c. Creative, Scholarly, and Professional Development
d. Professional Conduct and Service to the Institution,
Community, and Discipline
12. Qualifications for Specific Ranks (Section 9 of the University
Faculty Manual)
a. Instructor
b. Assistant Professor
c. Associate Professor
d. Professor
e. University Professor
f. Distinguished Professor
g. The Director of the Law Library
13. Special Provisions and Procedures with
Respect to Appointments, Reappointment, and Other Faculty Actions
a. Limitation of Service in the Rank of Instructor
b. Terms of Service
c. Reappointment
d. Promotion in Rank
e. Designation of Special Titles other than Regular
Faculty Ranks
f. Documentary Support for Faculty Personnel Actions:
Rights and Responsibilities of Faculty
g. Right of a Current or Prospective Faculty Member
to be Informed of Personnel Action Recommendations
h. Schedule of Notice for Appointment or Termination
i. Candidates who are not US citizens or permanent
residents
j. Resignations
k. Adjunct Faculty Ranks
14. Appointment With Tenure
a. In General
b. Eligibility for Tenure
i. Minimum Rank
ii. Years of Service: Full‑Time Faculty
iii. Waiver of Prior Service
c. Leaves and Accrued Time for Tenure
d. Accumulation of Service Toward Tenure: Faculty
Members with Less Than Full‑Time Teaching Duties
e. Prohibition Against a Concurrent Tenured or
Full-Time Appointment at Another Higher Education Institution.
15. Professional Obligations
a. Teaching Responsibilities
b. Overload Teaching at American University
16. Voting Faculty
17. Leaves of Absence
a. Justification for Leave
b. Limitations and Conditions
c. Types of Leave
i. Leave Without Pay
ii. Research Leaves
iii. Sabbatical Leave
iv. Family and Medical Leaves
v. Terminal Leave
18. Retirement
19. Faculty Grievances
a. Scope
b. Timeline
c. Informal Resolution
d. Handling of Grievances by the Committee
on Faculty Grievances
i. Filing of Grievance
ii. Hearing Process
20. Appeal
Procedures for Recommendations or Final Action involving Non-Renewal,
Non-Promotion or Denial of Tenure for Tenure Track Appointments
21. Disciplinary Procedures
a. Scope
b. Concurrent and/or Grievance Proceeding
c. Timeline
d. Informal Procedures
e. Procedures for Hearings before the Faculty Hearing
Committee for Termination with Cause and other major sanctions
i. Filing of Statement of Charges
ii. Hearing Panel
f. Appeal Procedures for Dismissal Actions
g. Procedures for Imposition of Sanctions other
than Dismissal
h. Terminal Salary or Notice
22. Termination for Reasons of Financial Exigency
a. Procedures for Determination of Financial Exigency
b. Financial Exigency Termination Review Procedures
c. Appeal
d. Terminal Salary or Notice
e. Reinstatement Rights..
23. Professional Standards
a. Employment of Relatives
b. Outside Professional Activities
1.Publication
2. Professional Service
c. Use of University Facilities
d. Sexual Harassment Policy
i. Informal Complaint
ii. Formal Complaint
e. Violations of Scholarly and Research Integrity
24. Miscellaneous Provisions
a. Graduate Study by Faculty
b. Summer Session Teaching Opportunities
c. Death While on Active Service
25. Amendments
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