Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3344 - Cleveland State University › Chapter 3344-1 - General Provisions › Section 3344-1-04 - University faculty and staff

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								University
			 faculty membership. The university faculty shall consist of the president,
			 university officers for academic affairs, professors, associate professors,
			 assistant professors, instructors, research and public service professors,
			 research and public service associate professors, research and public service
			 assistant professors, clinical associate professors, clinical assistant
			 professors, officers who hold academic rank, term appointees, visiting
			 appointees, and lecturers.
(B)
								Faculty senate.
			 The university faculty may delegate any or all of its authority to a
			 representative faculty senate in accordance with bylaws adopted by the
			 university faculty and approved by the board of trustees.
(C)
								Appointment of
			 faculty and staff. The president of the university and those administrative
			 officers they may so designate shall have the authority to approve and execute
			 all faculty and staff appointment contracts and annual renewals thereof
			 provided that current and/or permanent budgetary funds are available to fund
			 such appointments and related compensation.
(D)
								Board action in
			 non-bargaining unit faculty dismissals. The Cleveland state university faculty
			 personnel policies as revised were approved by the board of trustees effective
			 February 1, 1975. These personnel policies provide for due process in the
			 matter of the dismissal of a faculty member, who is not a member of the faculty
			 collective bargaining unit, culminating in a recommendation by the president to
			 the board of trustees. The board of trustees shall provide final resolution to
			 the process in the following manner:
(1)
									If the president recommends to the board that a tenured
			 faculty member, who is not a member of the faculty collective bargaining unit,
			 be dismissed or suspended, or that a non-tenured faculty member not a
			 collective bargaining unit member be dismissed or suspended during their
			 contract term, the president shall, on request of the faculty member, transmit
			 to the academic affairs and student success committee of the board the record
			 of the case, including the record of the formal hearing, if there was one,
			 before the prescribed faculty hearing committee.
(2)
									The academic
			 affairs and student success committee shall review the case and as stipulated
			 in this rule, may provide for a hearing. If there is a hearing, the academic
			 affairs and student success committee shall adopt its own rules of order and
			 procedure for the hearing.
(3)
									If there was a
			 formal hearing before the prescribed faculty hearing committee, the academic
			 affairs and student success committee's review shall be based on the record of
			 the faculty committee hearing, and it shall provide opportunity for argument,
			 oral or written or both, by the principals at the faculty committee hearing or
			 by their representative. If there was no formal hearing before the faculty
			 committee, the academic affairs and student success committee shall exercise
			 its discretion as to whether oral arguments by the principals (or their
			 representatives) shall be considered in addition to the written record of the
			 case (which shall include any written statements submitted by the concerned
			 faculty member) supplied by the president.
(4)
									If the academic
			 affairs and student success committee agrees with the recommendation of the
			 faculty hearing committee, it shall make a formal recommendation to that effect
			 to the board of trustees. If it does not agree with the faculty committee's
			 recommendation, it shall return the proceeding to the faculty committee with
			 specific objections stated.
(5)
									The faculty
			 committee shall then reconsider, taking into account the stated objections and
			 receiving new evidence if necessary. The faculty hearing committee's further
			 recommendations, if any, must be returned to the academic affairs and student
			 success committee's objections.
(6)
									If the faculty
			 committee submits further recommendations within twenty-one days, the academic
			 affairs and student success committee shall make its formal recommendation to
			 the board of trustees after study of the faculty hearing committee's further
			 recommendation.
(7)
									The board of trustees shall consider the formal
			 recommendation of the academic affairs and student success committee and make
			 the final decision in the case. If, however, the board of trustees rejects a
			 formal recommendation of the academic affairs and student success committee
			 that is in agreement with the recommendation of the faculty hearing committee,
			 the board shall return the proceeding to the faculty committee with specific
			 objections stated.
(8)
									The faculty hearing committee shall then reconsider,
			 taking into account the stated objections and receiving new evidence if
			 necessary. The faculty hearing committee's further recommendation, if any, must
			 be returned to the board of trustees within twenty-one days of receipt of the
			 board's objections.
(9)
									If the faculty hearing committee submits a further
			 recommendation within twenty-one days, the board of trustees shall make its
			 final decision in the case after study of the faculty committee's
			 recommendation.
Replaces: 3344-1-04