Academic Policies
PROPOSED CHANGES TO FACULTY HANDBOOK, TWELFTH EDITION, 2012-2013
Please see the links below to review changes to specific sections to the Faculty Handbook. Please address any questions or comments to the Office of Academic Affairs by close of business May 8, 2013.
Index to Proposed Changes PDF version Text only version
Proposed Changes to Section 5: Rights, Privileges & Benefits PDF version Text only version
Proposed Changes to Section 6: Ethics, Responsibilities, Conflicts & External Activities PDF version Text only version
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FACULTY HANDBOOK, TWELFTH EDITION, 2012-2013
- Faculty Handbook
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- Table of Contents
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- Updated Pages List
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- Preface
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- Section 1: Faculty Handbook Organization
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- Section 2: CSM Structure
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- Section 3: Handbook Modification Process
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- Section 4: Appointment
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- Section 5: Rights, Privileges and Benefits
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- Section 6: Ethics, Responsibilities, Conflicts and External Activities
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- Section 7: Performance and Evaluation
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- Section 8: Promotion and Tenure
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- Section 9: Termination and Employment
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- Section 10: Board Policies and Procedures
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- Section 11: Disciplinary Action and Grievances
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- Section 12: University Committees
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- Table of Contents
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS PROCEDURES MANUAL
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- Table of Contents
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- Section 1: Introduction
- Section 2: General Administrative Procedures
- Section 3: General Procedures for Faculty
- 3.1 Requests to Engage in Additional Professional Work
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- 3.2 Faculty Resumes/Curriculum Vitae Format
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- 3.3 Retirements, Sabbaticals, and Leaves of Absence
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- 3.4 Sabbatical Requests
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- 3.5 Business Card Protocol
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- 3.6 Amendment 41 Gift Ban
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- 3.1 Requests to Engage in Additional Professional Work
- Section 4: Faculty Hiring/Pay/Transfers
- 4.1 Hiring Instructions
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Updated January 2013 - 4.2 Policy and Procedures for Conducting Faculty Searches
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- 4.3 Benefits for Faculty
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- 4.4 Summer Program Guidelines
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- 4.5 "Plan B" Policies
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- 4.6 Visa and Immigration Protocol for Appointing Foreign Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty
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- 4.7 Moving Expense Guidelines
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- 4.8 Guidelines for Appointing Faculty to a Position with No Remuneration
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- 4.9 Terminating Salary Contracts and Separation of Employees from CSM
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- 4.10 Faculty Appointments for Graduate Students
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- 4.11 Required Documentation for New CSM Faculty
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- 4.12 Transfer to Faculty
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- 4.13 Funds for Which Faculty Members Have Responsibility and Accountability
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- 4.14 Policies Regarding Use of Graduate Students in Teaching Positions
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- 4.1 Hiring Instructions
- Section 5: Faculty Evaluation
- 5.1 Faculty Evaluation Procedure Summary
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- 5.2 Suggested Criteria to be Considered for Faculty Evaluations
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- 5.3 Department Head/Division Director Evaluation Procedure Summary
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- 5.3.1 Department Head and Division Director Responsibilities
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- 5.4 Student Evaluations of Faculty
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- 5.5 Professional Growth Plans for Tenure-Track Faculty
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- 5.1 Faculty Evaluation Procedure Summary
- Section 6: Promotion and Tenure
- 6.1 Promotion/Tenure Timetable and Scenario
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- 6.2 Guidelines for Submission of Promotion/Tenure Material
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- 6.3 Tenure Application Extension
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- 6.4 Preliminary Tenure Reviews for Tenure-Track Faculty
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- 6.5 Items for Candidate, Department Head/Division Director and Department/Division Promotion & Tenure Committee to Consider When Preparing Application Package
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- 6.1 Promotion/Tenure Timetable and Scenario
- Section 7: Visiting Committees
- Section 8: Academic Procedures
- 8.1 Graduate Registration/Tuition Guidelines
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- 8.2 Examinations Scheduling and Dead Day Policies
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- 8.3 Residency and Tuition Classification Guidelines
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- 8.4 Academic Plans
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- 8.5 Undergraduate Council Course Addition/Change Submission Form
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- 8.6 Graduate Council Course Addition/Change Submission Form
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- 8.7 Employee Tuition Waiver Requests
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- 8.8 SEVIS Fee Requirement for International Students & Scholars
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- 8.1 Graduate Registration/Tuition Guidelines
- Section 9: Faculty Awards and Emeritus Status
- 9.1 Teaching Awards
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- 9.2 CSM Alumni Teaching Award
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- 9.3 Board of Trustees' Outstanding Faculty Award
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- 9.4 Alfred E. Jenni Faculty Fellowship
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- 9.5 Dean's Excellence Award
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- 9.6 Nominating Faculty for Emeritus Title
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- 9.1 Teaching Awards
- Section 10: Commencement
- Section 11: Academic Space/Storage/Equipment
- 11.1 Requests for Remodeling or Project/Construction Services
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- 11.2 Storage Policy
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- 11.3 Guidelines for Disposition of Equipment Upon a Faculty Member's Departure from CSM
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- 11.4 Office Space for Transitional and Emeritus Faculty
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- 11.1 Requests for Remodeling or Project/Construction Services
- Section 12: Complaints Procedures
- Section 13: Travel
- Section 14: Research
- 14.1 Risk Policy
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- 14.2 Guidelines for Utilization of General Research Laboratory
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- 14.3 Human Subjects Research
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- 14.4 Policy Governing Center Reporting
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- 14.5 F&A Rates and Return Policy (formerly Indirect Cost or IDC)
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- 14.6 Close-out of Fixed Price Contracts
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- 14.1 Risk Policy
- Section 15: Employment Contract Forms
- 15.1 Tenured Faculty Employment Contract
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- 15.2 Tenure-Track Faculty Employment Contract
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- 15.3 Non-Tenured Faculty Employment Contract
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- 15.4 Library Faculty Employment Contract
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- 15.5 Administrator Addendum
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- 15.6 Department Head/Division Director Addendum
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- 15.7 Acting or Interim Department Head/Division Director Addendum
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- 15.8 Assistant Department Head/Division Director Addendum
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- 15.1 Tenured Faculty Employment Contract
- Section 16: Interim Procedures to Accompany Engineering Reorganization
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