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Faculty Handbook - Fall 2007

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II. C. TENURE

(Source: Faculty Constitution and Rules of Procedure)

Faculty Constitution: Article IV

Section 3. An academic member of the Faculty on regular appointment shall be notified whether or not he or she has been granted tenure no later than at the end of his or her probationary period. The probationary period shall be six years of full-time service at the rank of instructor or higher with the following exceptions:

  1. The period shall be reduced one year for each year up to a maximum of three of prior full-time teaching service in a school or college that awards a baccalaureate degree.
  2. The period may be reduced by one year for each year up to a maximum of three of prior full-time teaching service in a school or college that does not award a baccalaureate degree.
  3. The period may be reduced by one year for each year up to a maximum of three of prior experience in an academic position involving full-time or almost full-time research in another college or university.
  4. The period may be reduced by the time up to a maximum of one year spent on an approved leave of absence from Reed College.

Rules of Procedure

Section B-4. Once a Faculty member has acquired academic tenure, the presumption of both the Faculty and the College is for continuation of service from year to year in the absence of written notice to the contrary. The College will provide annually a statement of the salary established for the ensuing year and, as occasion requires, written notice of promotions and of other specific changes of terms, such as approval of leaves.

Section B-7. Normally, academic tenure will apply only to full-time academic members of the Faculty, but it may occasionally be desirable to accord it to personnel having additional employment outside the College. A Faculty member having academic tenure who reduces his or her employment at the College to a continuing part-time basis shall not necessarily lose his or her status of academic tenure as a result. All special cases involving part-time employment shall be accepted or rejected on their individual merits.

Section B-8. An individual on academic tenure will retain such status during official leaves of absence.

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