SUBJECT: REGENTS PROFESSORSHIP

APPLICABILITY: FACULTY

 Purpose

The purpose of the Regents Professorship award is two-fold:

1. To provide recognition and salary support for individuals currently at the rank of professor who have performed outstanding teaching, research or both.

2. To provide teaching in introductory courses of the discipline by outstanding faculty.

Award

The award consists of the designation "Regents Professor," and a continuing salary supplement of not less than $5,500 per year to the nine-month salary base. Up to 10 awards may be made per year with the restriction that no more than 25 percent of those at the rank of professor can hold the designation "Regents Professor" at any one time.

To be eligible for this award, an individual must:

1. be a tenured professor;

2. have a distinguished record of teaching, research or both;

3. give evidence of the potential for continuation of distinguished service; and

4. be a full-time faculty member not on administrative appointment.

Workload Requirement

All professors shall teach at least one course or the equivalent in individual instruction each semester. Furthermore, they shall devote at least half of each biennium's teaching workload to appropriate introductory level courses as determined by the teaching needs of their academic units. The remainder of the professor's workload shall be adjusted to best utilize the recipient's expertise.

Review of Performance of Teaching Duties

Although awarded on a continuing basis, these awards will be reviewed by the Regents Professors Selection and Review Committee concerning the continued eligibility of currently active regents professors for the awards. These reviews shall occur in the seventh year following the year of a regents professor's appointment or reappointment to the designation. These reviews will lead to a recommendation that a regents professor should or should not continue to enjoy the designation. In the event the determination is made that a member should not continue to be a regents professor, the salary supplement accompanying the designation shall no longer be a part of that faculty member's salary. (For more specific information on procedures for selection and compliance with terms, refer to UNT Policy Manual, Vol. III, #15.1.24.1.)

Exceptions

1. A Regents Professor on full-time paid leave is exempt from the workload requirements for the duration of the leave. If partial faculty responsibilities continue, the workload requirement shall apply.

2. A newly selected Regents Professor, due to existing scheduling commitments, may defer compliance with the workload requirements for the first year of the appointment.

3. If a Regents Professor is named to an administrative position, the designation of Regents Professor and accompanying salary supplement shall be suspended for the duration of the administrative appointment.

*Reviewed with no changes