Chapter 1 — Section 3

3.0 Updating obsolete material in TIU governance documents 

All university titles, rules, policies, offices, and entities must be checked for accuracy with current language and requirements during the required governance document review in the first year of a TIU head’s or dean’s appointment or reappointment. Units are asked to pay special attention to Faculty Rule 3335-7-02, where clinical/teaching/professional practice titles recently have been updated. Units are also asked to pay special attention to the new Faculty Workload Guideline, implemented in May 2024, in reviewing that section of their POA.  

Many POA and APT documents that are submitted for approval contain obsolete material. Common examples of such material are summarized below so that units may make the needed corrections before forwarding their documents for review.  

All University Faculty Rules and university policies are available on university websites (linked with each reference). It is inadvisable for governance documents to quote these extensively as such passages will not reflect later revisions to the material at the website. In place of quoted material, the address of the website should be embedded in the relevant text. 

For matters relating to Employee and Labor Relations, please contact OHR, Employee and Labor Relations, (614) 247-6947. 

Faculty Rule 3335-3-29 has been revised to require that colleges have a Pattern of Administration with specified content. 

Faculty Rule 3335-5-19 has been revised. “Track” refers only to tenure-track faculty. 

Faculty Rule 3335-5-19 has been revised. Clinical associated appointments are now called “clinical practice faculty.” 

Faculty Rule 3335-5-19 has been revised allowing the tenure-track faculty (and clinical/teaching/professional practice and/or research faculty with TIU voting rights) to enfranchise associated faculty, allowing the associated faculty to participate in college or academic unit governance. 

Faculty Rule 3335-7 has been revised to change the titles of clinical faculty to clinical, teaching, or professional practice faculty. Units must write specific criteria to match the title(s) selected by the units. 

Faculty Rule 3335-7-03 has been revised. Unless an exception is approved by the University Senate and the Board of Trustees, clinical/teaching/professional practice faculty may comprise no more than forty percent of the total tenure-track, clinical/teaching/professional practice, and research faculty (as defined in Rule 3335-5-19 of the Administrative Code) in each of the colleges of the health sciences and no more than twenty percent of the tenure-track, clinical/teaching/professional practice, and research faculty in all other colleges. In all tenure-initiating units not in health sciences, the number of clinical/teaching/professional practice faculty members must be fewer than the number of tenure-track faculty members in each unit.  

The Faculty Recruitment and Selection Policy has been revised removing permanent residency within the U.S. as a requirement to obtain tenure at the university and to adhere to the university-wide faculty recruitment and selection process found within the Strategic Hiring Initiative for Faculty Talent (“SHIFT”) framework.