A faculty member of the library must meet the following criteria in order to be considered for tenure. These criteria have been adopted by the library faculty. Tenure Criteria . Each faculty member who is eligible for tenure must have earned the Masters of Library Science or its equivalent from a school accredited by the American Library Association. In accordance with college policy, if at the time of initial academic appointment a faculty member has less than the Master's degree in Library Science, the time served prior to achieving that degree could be considered as fulfilling part of the normal seven year probationary period.
Faculty members have ethical responsibilities to themselves, to the profession, and to students.
Their primary responsibilities to their subjects are to seek and state the truth as they see it. To this end, they devote their energies to developing and improving their scholarly competence. They accept the obligations to exercise critical selfdiscipline and judgment in using, extending, and transmitting knowledge. They practice intellectual honesty. Although they may follow subsidiary interests, these interests must never seriously hamper or compromise their freedom of inquiry.