Policies and Procedures

This page will be helpful to College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty and staff to better answer questions and understand the CLAS policies and procedures. Below is a list of several documents that are asked for on a regular basis by individuals in the College. Please take the time to look at and review some of the policies and procedures in the CLAS.

• Academic Appointments in the College
• Academic Journals and Journal Editors Support Policy
• Advising Policy
• Bylaws, College (pdf)
• Chair/Director Travel Funds
• College-Wide Instructional Commitments Policy
• Domestic Partner Accommodations Policy
• Faculty Evaluation and Merit Salary Matters
• Faculty Retention Guidelines
• Faculty Travel Fund
• Graduate Curricular Change Form
• Graduate Program Change Form
• General Research Fund Information
• Committee on Graduate Studies Change Form Deadlines
• Grievance Procedure
• Guidelines for Employing Lecturers on Multi-Term Contracts
• Lecture Funds
• Lecturer Salary Guidelines
• Nepotism Policy
• Official Hospitality Funds-Form (Excel file)
• Official Hospitality Funds-Policy
• Phased-Retirement Guidelines
• Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
  • College Statement on Promotion and Tenure (pdf)
  • May 2008 information on promotion and tenure in 2008-2009
  • Candidate Response to Negative Recommendation or Marginal/Poor Evaluation Rating from the Initial (Unit) Review Committee
  • Progress Toward Tenure Review
  • Other promotion and tenure policies including third year review can be found on the Provost web site
• Research Intensive Semester for Junior Faculty
• Sabbatical Leave Information
• Student Academic Misconduct Policy (pdf)
• Supplemental Salary Fund (SSF)
• Teaching Assignment Policy
• University Support Staff – New Hire Guidelines

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