Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3335 - Ohio State University › Chapter 3335-6 - Tenure-Track Faculty › Section 3335-6-06 - Tenure initiating unit

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								 A tenure
			 initiating unit is a division, department, school, or college approved by the
			 council on academic affairs, the university senate, and the board of trustees.
			 A tenure initiating unit has the following responsibilities for all faculty
			 members assigned to it: to assist in professional development; to evaluate; to
			 maintain official personnel records; and to initiate promotion, tenure,
			 reappointment, and nonrenewal recommendations. The office of academic affairs
			 shall be responsible for maintaining the official list of tenure initiating
			 units.
(B)
								 A single division, department, school, or college must
			 serve as the tenure initiating unit for each tenure-track faculty member,
			 including individuals with multiple appointments. Multiple appointments to the
			 tenure-track faculty totaling fifty per cent or more of service to the
			 university shall be considered to be the same as a single appointment of fifty
			 per cent or more for the purpose of determining eligibility for
			 tenure.
(C)
								 A tenure-track faculty member may change from one
			 tenure initiating unit to another voluntarily; or as a result of the
			 restructuring of academic units, including consolidation, reorganization, or
			 abolishment; or as a result of the abolishment of a tenure initiating unit
			 during conditions of financial exigency. The following provisions govern such
			 changes:
(1)
									 A
			 faculty member may voluntarily move from one tenure initiating unit to another
			 upon approval of a simple majority of all tenured faculty members in the
			 receiving tenure initiating unit and, following consultation with the
			 appropriate dean(s), the executive vice president and provost. Administrative
			 approval will be dependent on whether satisfactory fiscal arrangements for the
			 change have been made.
(2)
									 A faculty member's tenure initiating unit may be
			 changed as a result of structural changes in academic units, including
			 consolidation or reorganization of units, or abolishment of units, that are
			 approved by the university senate and board of trustees.
(a)
										 When academic
			 units are to be consolidated or reorganized, resulting in the creation of one
			 or more new tenure initiating units, the plan for relocating faculty to the new
			 tenure initiating units shall be part of the approved restructuring proposal.
			 Change in tenure initiating unit resulting from the consolidation or
			 reorganization of academic units shall not require the consent of individual
			 faculty members whose tenure initiating unit is changed. In addition, since a
			 receiving unit does not exist when new units are being created, no vote of such
			 a unit will be required in relocating faculty.
(b)
										 When a tenure
			 initiating unit is to be abolished and is not part of a plan to consolidate or
			 reorganize two or more units into new tenure initiating units, every effort
			 shall be made by the executive vice president and provost to transfer each
			 tenure-track faculty member in that tenure initiating unit to another tenure
			 initiating unit, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (C) of this
			 rule. Should such agreement be impossible, the person's tenure responsibility
			 shall reside with the executive vice president and provost. The executive vice
			 president and provost shall assign the faculty member appropriate duties. If
			 the faculty member's previous assignment has been at a regional campus, the
			 executive vice president and provost shall consult with the dean and director
			 of the regional campus regarding an appropriate assignment.
(3)
									 A
			 tenure-track faculty member whose tenure initiating unit is abolished during
			 conditions of financial exigency, as described in rule 3335-5-02.1 of the
			 Administrative Code, may be reassigned to a new tenure initiating unit under
			 the terms of paragraph (C)(1) of rule 3335-5-02.2 of the Administrative
			 Code.