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  15.0 II-1.01- RESOLUTION REGARDING ADOPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM POLICY ON APPOINTMENT, RANK, AND TENURE OF FACULTY
 
 
  (Approved by the Board of Regents, April 5, 1989)
 
 
       WHEREAS, legislation enacted by the Maryland General
  Assembly in 1988 requires the Board of Regents to "establish
  general standards and guidelines governing the appointment,
  compensation, advancement, tenure, and termination of all faculty
  and administrative personnel in the University of Maryland
  System" (Senate Bill 459, now codified in Md. Educ. Code Ann.
  Section 12-110(a)); and
 
       WHEREAS, the Board of Regents has established as one of its
  first priorities the development of a comprehensive general
 
  policy on the appointment, rank, and tenure of faculty members;
  and
 
       WHEREAS, the development of such a policy has been
  undertaken and has involved extensive consultation with
  representative faculty bodies and responsible institutional
  administrators at all institutions in the University of Maryland
  System as well as the recommendations of the Chancellor in
  consultation with the chief executive officers of all
  institutions in the University of Maryland System and the
  Attorney General's Office; and
 
       WHEREAS, it is the intent of the Board of Regents to
  implement a comprehensive general policy on the appointment,
  rank, and tenure of faculty members that will allow the
  University of Maryland System to fulfill its statutory obligation
  to "recruit and retain nationally and internationally prominent
  faculty members" (Senate Bill 459, now codified in Md. Educ. Code
  Ann. Section 10-209(c)(3));
 
       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED as follows:
 
       (1)  The Board approves and adopts the University System
  Policy on Appointment, Rank, and Tenure of Faculty dated April 4,
  1989 (referred to below as the "A.R.T. Policy").
 
       (2)  The A.R.T. Policy shall become effective at each
  constituent institution in the University of Maryland System when
  that institution's appointment, rank, and tenure policy is
  approved by the Chancellor in accordance with paragraph II.B.2 of
  the A.R.T. Policy.  As of the date of that approval, the chief
  executive officer shall be delegated authority to appoint,
  promote, grant tenure, and terminate faculty in accordance with
  (a) the A.R.T. Policy, and (b) institutional policies adopted in
  accordance with paragraph II.B.2 of the A.R.T. Policy.
 
       (3)  Upon the Chancellor's approval of an institution's
  appointment, rank, and tenure policy, all policies specific to
  that institution pertaining to the appointment, promotion, and
  tenure of faculty that were heretofore adopted by the former
  University of Maryland Board of Regents and the former Board of
  Trustees for State Universities and Colleges shall be rescinded,
  and all general policies on appointment, rank, and tenure of
  faculty heretofore adopted by those former boards are thereupon
  superseded for that institution by the A.R.T. Policy.1
 
       (4)  The chief executive officer of each institution may
  subdelegate to the appropriate subordinate institutional official
  the authority to make appointments and promotions and to assign
  duties; but the chief executive officer may not subdelegate
  authority to grant tenure or to terminate tenured or tenure-track
  faculty appointments for cause.
 
       (5)  Unless and until modified by the Board of Regents, all
  other matters related to faculty and other academic personnel,
  including but not limited to policies and procedures regarding
  leaves, outside employment, patents and copyright, scholarship
  and professional misconduct, retirement, and retrenchment, shall
  continue to be governed by the policies of the University of
  Maryland Board of Regents and the Board of Trustees of State
  Universities and Colleges as such policies existed prior to the
  effective date of the 1988 legislation.
 
 
 
 
 
  1 = Individual institutional policies to be rescinded, as
  provided in paragraph (3) above are:  BOR III-2.05, III-2.06,
  III-2.13, III-2.16.1, III-2.16.2, III-2.16.3, III-2.16.4, III-
  2.16.5, III-2.16.6, III-2.20, III-2.20.1, III-2.21, III-2.22,
  III-4.10, III-5.00, III-6.00, and III-8.00.  General policies
  related to appointment, rank, and tenure of faculty to be
  rescinded after institution-level policies have been approved for
  every constituent institution are:  BOR III-1.00, III-1.01, III-
  1.01.1, III-2.00, III-2.00.1, III-2.01, III-2.02, III-2.03, III-
  2.04, III-2.04.1, III-2.07, III-2.07.1, III-2.08, III-2.08.1,
  III-2.08.2, III-2.09, III-2.10, III-2.10.1, III-2.14.2, III-2.15,
  III-2.16, III-4.00, and III-7.00; and Chapter VII, Parts A
  through F, J and L through N, and Appendices A through D of
  Policies and Procedures of the Board of Trustees of the State
  Universities and Colleges of Maryland.
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