New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter V - State University of New York › Subchapter B - Policies of the Board of Trustees › Part 335 - Appointment of Employees › Title B - Continuing Appointment › Section 335.4 - Eligibility

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Continuing
					 appointment as professor, associate professor, librarian or associate
					 librarian. Continuing appointment as professor, associate professor, librarian
					 or associate librarian may be given by the chancellor on initial appointment or
					 thereafter. Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section, further
					 employment as professor, associate professor, librarian or associate librarian
					 after the third consecutive year of service in any one or any several of these
					 ranks at any one college must be on the basis of continuing appointment;
					 provided, however, such appointment shall not be effective until made so by the
					 chancellor, and provided further, that promotion to any of these ranks shall
					 not operate to extend the service requirements for continuing appointment
					 described in subdivision (b) of this section.
(b) Continuing appointment as assistant
					 professor, instructor, senior assistant librarian or assistant librarian.
					 Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section, further employment at
					 any college of an appointee who has completed a total of seven years of service
					 in a position or positions of academic rank, of which the last three
					 consecutive years have been in a position of academic rank at that college as
					 assistant professor, instructor, senior assistant librarian or assistant
					 librarian, must be on the basis of a continuing appointment; provided, however,
					 such appointment shall not be effective until made so by the chancellor. An
					 assistant professor, instructor, senior assistant librarian or assistant
					 librarian shall not be eligible for continuing appointment at any of these
					 ranks prior to the completion of a total of seven years in a position or
					 positions of academic rank.
(c)
					 Additional term appointment. An academic employee holding a continuing or a
					 term appointment at one college who is appointed to academic rank at another
					 college may be given that appointment for a term not to exceed three
					 years.
(d) Service credit.
(1) In determining eligibility for continuing
					 appointment under subdivision (b) of this section, satisfactory full -time
					 prior service in academic rank at any other accredited academic institution of
					 higher education may, at the request of the appointee and in the discretion of
					 the Chancellor of designee, be credited as service, up to a maximum of three
					 years, at the time of appointment at a college. Waiver of all or part of this
					 service credit shall be granted upon written request of the employee to the
					 chief administrative officer not later than six months after the date of
					 initial appointment.
(2) In
					 computing consecutive years of service for the purposes of appointment or
					 reappointment to the academic staff, periods of leave of absence at full salary
					 shall be included; periods of leave of absence at partial salary or without
					 salary and periods of part -time service shall not be included, but shall not
					 be deemed an interruption of otherwise consecutive service.
(3) A temporary cessation of service credit
					 toward continuing appointment shall be provided, at the employee's request,
					 commencing with the birth/adoption/foster care placement of a child. Such
					 written request by an academic employee with an academic year obligation shall
					 be approved for the time requested, one semester or two semesters. Such written
					 request by an academic employee with a calendar year obligation shall be
					 approved for the time requested, six months or one year
(4) Each employee who as of May 6, 2020 is
					 currently serving in a position of academic rank who has not yet attained
					 continuing appointment status, and who is not currently under review, shall
					 have an automatic one-year extension of the time to continuing appointment
					 without change in title, full-time equivalent or other employment status. Any
					 employee in a position of academic rank who has not yet attained continuing
					 appointment status may opt out of the automatic one-year extension referenced
					 above and be considered for continuing appointment based on their original
					 schedule by submitting a request, in writing, to their Department Chair, with
					 copy to their Dean and Provost. Timelines for such submission shall be
					 determined at each campus. These provisions shall not apply to any employee in
					 a position of academic rank who has already been provided with a notice of
					 non-renewal.
(5) Each employee who
					 was hired between May 6, 2020 and June 30, 2021 and appointed to a position of
					 academic rank, who has not yet attained continuing appointment status, and who
					 is not currently under review, shall have an automatic one-year extension of
					 the time to continuing appointment without change in title, full-time
					 equivalent or other employment status. Any employee in a position of academic
					 rank who has not yet attained continuing appointment status may opt out of the
					 automatic one-year extension referenced above and be considered for continuing
					 appointment based on their original schedule by submitting a request, in
					 writing, to their Department Chair, with copy to their Dean and Provost.
					 Timelines for such submission shall be determined at each campus. These
					 provisions shall not apply to any employee in a position of academic rank who
					 has already been provided with a notice of nonrenewal.