1.1.1 Faculty Members with Regular Appointment
Faculty members with regular appointments are professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and instructors who are eligible for tenure. Their teaching assignments normally consist of six courses or the equivalent during an academic year. Teaching assignments for ranked librarians include reference, instruction, collection development, and the shared management of the library. Such faculty members with regular appointments may also be assigned responsibilities in connection with advising, directing, and supervising independent studies and serving on department, faculty, or college committees or other special assignments.
1.1.2 Faculty Members with Joint Appointment
A joint appointment divides between two faculty members the rights and responsibilities equivalent to one full-time position, and may be negotiated after consultation with the department or departments involved. Each faculty member sharing a joint appointment is eligible individually for promotion and tenure in accordance with the regular criteria and procedures. A provision may be included in the initial contract that if one member of a joint appointment ceases for any reason to be a member of the faculty, the remaining member may assume the responsibilities of one position at the rank and tenure status of the remaining member. If that provision is not included in the initial contract, the remaining member retains tenure, if tenured, and may negotiate a full-time position by mutual agreement among the remaining member, the department, and the Provost. For joint appointments, teaching responsibilities and benefits are specified at the time of hire.
1.1.3 Faculty Members with Special Appointment
Special appointments include visiting professor, research professor, artist, composer or writer-in-residence, lecturer, adjunct professor, athletic coach (for whom coaching is more than 50 percent of her/his assignment), field study or internship supervisor, laboratory instructor, replacement for persons on leave, and persons funded by grants or other temporary funds. Teaching and/or other assignments, rank, if appropriate, and provisions regarding notice of renewal or termination will be specified at the time of appointment. Persons on special appointment are permitted but are not expected to accept committee or other assignments. They are not eligible for tenure.
1.1.4 Faculty Members with Part-time Appointment
Part-time faculty members whose teaching or equivalent assignment consists of fewer than four courses during an academic year are appointed at the rank of instructor, except in specific instances for which preparation and/or experience clearly warrant a higher rank, and are compensated on a per-course basis. Part-time faculty whose teaching or equivalent assignment consists of four or more, but less than seven, courses during an academic year will be compensated according to the faculty salary schedule on a pro-rata basis at the instructor or other appropriate rank. Part-time faculty members are permitted but not expected to accept committee or other assignments and to attend convocation and ceremonial occasions. They are not eligible for tenure; provisions regarding notice of renewal or termination will be specified at the time of appointment. Part-time faculty hired to teach three courses in a single semester will also be compensated on a pro-rata basis.
A faculty member who retires from service at Gustavus Adolphus College is eligible for election to the status of professor emeritus and shall, if elected, be so designated irrespective of the rank held at retirement. Election to emeritus status will be by a majority vote of the ballots cast by those holding the rank of professor. This election will be conducted by mail-in ballot before the final faculty meeting of the academic year, with the results to be announced at that meeting.
1.1.6 Faculty/Administration Appointments
1.1.6.1 Appointment of Faculty to Administrative Positions
A faculty member who may be appointed to an administrative position for a stipulated period does not forfeit rank or tenure. If a faculty member on a probationary appointment accepts such an administrative appointment, the time spent in such assignment may be counted toward fulfilling the probationary period prior to tenure. Terms and conditions of such appointment will be stated in writing at the time of appointment.
A faculty member who accepts a continuing, full-time administrative appointment ceases to have rank or tenure, except in those instances where the President, after consultation with the department concerned and with the Faculty Senate, permits such person to retain rank or tenure or both.
1.1.6.2 Appointment of Administrators to Faculty
The President, the Provost, or other senior administrators may be offered tenured faculty status following approval by the designated academic department, the Faculty Senate, and the Board of Trustees. Such tenured administrators will have the option of assuming faculty status upon leaving the administration.
1.1.6.3 Part-time Appointment of Administrators to Faculty
Administrators may be appointed as faculty to teach courses in J-Term or during the semester with the approval of the Provost and the appropriate academic department. When serving as faculty, administrators have all he rights and privileges of part-time faculty.
Faculty members on special appointment or part-time faculty members will be appointed for terms of one year or other stated periods. Term appointments may be renewable or non-renewable as stipulated at the time of appointment. Persons with term appointments are not eligible for tenure.
1.2.2 Probationary and Tenured Appointments
Faculty members with regular or joint appointments will be on probationary appointments or on appointments with continuous tenure.
1.2.2.1 Probationary Appointments
Probationary appointments may be made for one year, or for other stated periods; a probationary appointment may be renewed, but no such appointment implies a presumption of renewal.
Previous service at Gustavus Adolphus College and other institutions of higher education may be included in the probationary period subject to limitations agreed upon in writing at the time of appointment. If not previously agreed upon in writing, a person with more than three years previous probationary service completed after the terminal degree has been earned will be appointed for a probationary period of not more than four years, even though the person's total probationary period in the academic profession is thereby extended beyond the normal maximum of seven years.
1.2.2.2 Appointments with Continuous Tenure
Appointments with continuous tenure are made after a probationary period of not more than seven years. Time spent on leaves of absence will not be counted as probationary service, unless the faculty member and the College agree in writing to the contrary at the time the leave is granted. Tenure may be granted earlier, but not later, than the expiration of the probationary period.
