Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3339 - Miami University › Chapter 3339-6 - Academic Affairs Unit › Section 3339-6-03 - Assignment of academic rank, department, and division

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Except as hereinafter provided, all persons holding academic
				rank (other than positional rank) shall be assigned to an academic department
				and be recommended for appointment by the department. The essential factor in
				such appointment is recognition of a person's competence in an academic
				discipline or area of knowledge administered by the department. Initially, it
				is the department that determines such competence. The recommendation for
				appointment is made by the department and shall be subject to approval by the
				academic dean of the appropriate division, the provost, and the
				president.
Any regional campus tenured or
				tenure-track faculty member hired before July 1, 2016, who elected to maintain
				their tenure and promotion home in an Oxford campus academic department will be
				given the option of joining only their regional department and division or
				having a dual appointment to their regional department and division. A regional
				campus faculty member with a dual appointment has a full membership, voting and
				service opportunities in their Oxford campus academic department and division
				as well as their regional academic department and division. When a regional
				campus faculty member performs service on the Oxford campus, the chairs of the
				departments in which the faculty member has membership will communicate to
				ensure a fair service load for the faculty member. For information regarding
				the promotion and tenure rights of regional campus faculty holding dual
				appointments see Chapter 3339-7 of the Administrative Code.
Lecturers and clinical/professionally
				licensed faculty on the regional campus hired before July 1, 2016, who have an
				appointment in an Oxford academic department will also be offered dual
				appointment status. For information regarding the promotion rights for these
				faculty see Chapter 3339-7 of the Administrative Code.
Faculty appointments to more than one home department/program
				and/or division must follow the provost's guidelines for joint
				appointments.
Exception may be made to the above paragraph only in a specific
				case when a person who would be acceptable for regular assignment to teaching
				or research is given another assignment within the university. In such instance
				the assignment will be made by the president, with concurrence of the provost,
				the dean of the appropriate division, and the department concerned.
A person holding academic rank shall maintain that rank while
				serving the university in an administrative or other capacity. Such person has
				all the privileges, including maintaining tenure, which are incidental to his
				or her academic rank. Such person shall not be eligible for achieving tenure
				except for a department chair who is tenurable. Promotion in academic rank
				shall be in recognition of contributions to his or her academic discipline.
				Such promotion in academic rank shall be initiated by the department concerned
				and may only be made with the concurrence of the dean of the appropriate
				division, the provost, the president, and the board of trustees.