Faculty Handbook

Entire Faculty Handbook - .pdf
 

Introduction

The Faculty Handbook provides an overview of the history and administrative structure of The Florida State University. It also presents information on various processes and procedures you will encounter as a faculty member in your academic, administrative, or research roles. Clicking your mouse on a Table of Contents entry will link you to the corresponding section of the Faculty Handbook. The entire text of the document also can be searched by using the Microsoft find tool. As policies and procedures change, the most up-to-date information will be available on the Office of the Dean of the Faculties’ Web site at http://dof.fsu.edu/.

The term “faculty” has different meanings in different contexts. The Florida State University Constitution defines “The General Faculty” as those faculty members holding the academic rank of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor (includes Eminent Scholar) in one of the colleges or academic departments and who may not be re-appointed beyond a seven-year maximum unless awarded tenure (tenure is not awarded at the instructor and assistant professor ranks). These faculty members are commonly described as “ranked faculty.” All other faculty members are described as “non-ranked.” The “non-ranked” group includes the “rank equivalent” faculty (applies to the various levels of Scholar/Scientist/Engineer and Curator), the various librarian ranks, and the lecturer rank, as well as the faculty positions that carry no assigned rank.

Faculty members hold various types of compensated appointments, such as regular, research, visiting, acting, provisional, or adjunct (or visiting in lieu of adjunct), as well as non-compensated appointments such as courtesy or joint college. Other terminology commonly used to describe faculty members includes:

• tenure-track (tenure-earning or tenured) or non-tenure-track (not tenure-earning and non-tenured),
• instructional or non-instructional,
• full-time or part-time,
• funded from Education and General (E&G) recurring Legislative appropriations or from “soft money” [faculty, contracts and grants (C&G), sponsored research funds, grants and donations trust funds, or auxiliary entities],
• paid from salary or OPS (other personnel services) funds,
• in-unit or out-of-unit (referring to the collective bargaining unit; for the list of in-unit classification titles, see Appendix A of the Collective Bargaining Agreement).

Some of the policies and procedures described in the Faculty Handbook apply only to certain types of faculty members, and the text will reflect this.