Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3344 - Cleveland State University › Chapter 3344-11 - Appointment of Leadership › Section 3344-11-02 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
The following are definitions of key words and phrases used in
				rules 3344-11-01 to 3344-13-04 of Administrative Code:
(A) "Faculty"
All persons who have been granted full-time appointments by the
				board of trustees to the rank of professor, clinical
				professor, associate professor, clinical associate professor, assistant
				professor, clinical assistant professor, instructor, assistant college lecturer, associate college  lecturer, senior college  lecturer, research assistant professor,
				research associate professor, research professor, college of law clinical
				professor,
									 college of law legal writing professor, professor of practice, associate professor of practice and
				assistant professor of practice. Faculty are members of a college as
				defined in paragraph (A) of rule
				3344-13-01
				of the Administrative Code. For definitional purposes within these rules, a
				freestanding school is the equivalent of a college, unless otherwise
				specified.
(B) "Contract"
The instrument issued annually by the university that specifies
				rank, tenure status, salary, schedule of salary payment, and any special terms
				of employment of a faculty member, such as a specific percentage of time
				assigned to administrative responsibilities. (This is not to be confused with
				the CSU-AAUP collective bargaining agreement, often colloquially referred to as
				"The Contract.")
(C)
			 "Appointment"
The original admission to faculty rank and status at Cleveland
				state university granted by appropriate action of the board of trustees and the
				entering into a contract. An appointment continues throughout a faculty
				member's continuous service in the university. Neither promotion in rank nor
				the issuance of subsequent annual contracts constitutes appointment or
				"reappointment."
(D)
			 "Tenure"
The status in the university established by formal action by
				the board of trustees granting the prerogative of a faculty member to
				employment on a continuing basis subject to dismissal only for the particular
				causes and after due process specified in this document.
(E) "Probationary period"
The maximum cumulative full-time service that a person eligible
				for tenure can be required to serve before the time the board of trustees must
				decide to confer tenure or to terminate the faculty member's appointment, (see
				paragraph (D)(1) of rule 3344-11-03 of the Administrative Code.)
(F) "Length of faculty service"
Those years of full-time academic service computed for purposes
				of tenure and promotion representing the sum of:
(1) The number of complete academic years
			 (August through May) of full-time academic service, and;
(2) The whole number (e.g. 0, 1, 2...)
			 obtained by adding together all fractions of academic years served and rounding
			 to the nearest whole number. If the fraction is one-half, the fractions shall
			 be rounded to the nearest lower whole number. Summer teaching shall not be
			 counted in computing years of service, unless the provost and senior vice
			 president for academic affairs (subsequently referred to as the provost) has
			 agreed in writing to substitute a summer semester for an academic year semester
			 of teaching. Leave of absences, paid or unpaid, shall count as years of service
			 if the primary purpose of the leave of absence was scholarly activity other
			 than the completion of the requirements for an degree, unless prior to any such
			 leave of absence, there was a mutual agreement in writing by the faculty
			 member, the faculty member's dean, and the provost excepting the leave from
			 years of service.
(3) Years of
			 service for purpose of promotion and tenure shall not include any year in which
			 less than fifty per cent of assigned duties, as stipulated by contract,
			 entailed departmental research and instruction.