Faculty Handbook           Section II
Personnel Policies and Procedures for Faculty Members and Librarians
B.
Academic Freedom and Faculty Responsibility		   C.
Faculty Workload		   D.
Graduate Faculty Status		   E.
Annual Evaluation		   F.
Attaining Tenure		   G.
Promotion		   H.
Faculty Development Leave
I.
Distinguished Research Professorships and Regents Professorships		 J.
Termination of Employment		 K.
Continuing Evaluation of Tenured Faculty		 L.
UNT Faculty Discipline Policy		 M.
Financial Exigency		 N.
Retirement		 O.
University of North Texas Librarians' Charter and Governance Document

A.    Appointment to the Faculty

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The strength of a university resides in its faculty. Building excellence in a faculty begins with critical consideration of initial appointments and continues through the provision of a working environment that encourages and rewards professional growth.

Candidates are recruited and recommended for appointment to the university faculty through a procedure that generally involves faculty members, the department chair, and the dean of the academic discipline concerned. The dean recommends candidates to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs who recommends to the President of the University. Upon nomination and recommendation by the President, the Board of Regents makes all appointments. All employment is contingent upon completion of an Employee Eligibility Authorization Form. (Detailed information on the recruitment and appointment of new faculty members is found in the University of North Texas Search Guidelines, copies of which are available in the offices of academic deans and department chairs. A summary of the guidelines can be found in Section V,K of this Handbook.)

Initial appointments, which may be at the rank of professor, resident artist, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, or lecturer, are based on the type of degree held, academic record, prior experience, and potential for contribution to the university.

Appointments to the faculty generally fall into one of four categories:

1.    Terminal: no expectation of reappointment; at any rank.

2.    Temporary: not eligible for tenure; renewable at the option of the university; at any rank.

3.    Probationary: eligible for tenure; renewable at the option of the university; as assistant professor or above only (the rank of instructor is inactive); with potential for achieving tenure and promotion, but with no automatic assurance of either.

4.    Continuing: with tenure.

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