Termination of Appointments
Tenured Faculty
Appointments for an indefinite term may be terminated only by either of the following procedures:
- By following AAUP guidelines in force at the time for dismissal of tenured members.
- By notice in writing from the President twenty-one (21) months before the termination is to take effect. A faculty member shall have the right to be heard by an ad hoc elected faculty committee of five (5), three (3) of whom shall have been at the College for at least eight years. If the faculty member elects to exercise this right, the judgment of the committee shall be final.
Criteria
The criteria for recommendations by the Committee on Faculty and decisions by the ad hoc committee shall be: effective teaching, sound scholarship, fulfillment of non-academic obligations to the College and the College community, and a proper regard for colleagues and students.
If the question of burden of proof arises, it shall be placed on the faculty member before the Committee on Faculty; it shall be placed on the administration before the ad hoc committee of five (5).
Non-Tenured Faculty
A non-tenured faculty member on a term appointment may appeal a Committee on Faculty non-renewal recommendation. Within one month of being notified of a non-renewal recommendation by the Committee, the faculty member must request of the Dean of Faculty the right to be heard by an elected faculty committee of five (5), three (3) of whom shall have been at the College for at least eight years and none of whom currently sit on the Committee on Faculty. This committee shall be elected each spring to serve during the following academic year, should the need arise. The purview of this committee is limited to determining whether adequate consideration was given; if adequate consideration was given, the Committee on Faculty recommendation would stand; if not, the Committee on Faculty would have to take new considerations into account but would still make the recommendation.