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determine particular personnel reductions. When such reductions are considered, tenure rights
will be protected insofar as possible. A tenured member will not be laid off in favor of a nontenured
member except in extraordinary circumstances where a serious distortion of the academic
programs would otherwise result. If it is necessary to lay off tenured members, those without the
appropriate terminal degree will be considered for layoff first, then those with the appropriate
terminal degree and the least number of years of service at Regis University; but in all instances,
there will be due consideration of the essential needs of each department or program and the
equal opportunity goals of the University. Efforts will be made to sustain these goals even though
seniority may suffer in the resulting reductions. In situations where tenured members have the
appropriate terminal degree and the same length of service, the University, through the
appropriate dean(s) and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the faculty, through the
appropriate faculty committee, will reach agreement upon the means of arriving at selection
decisions. If agreement cannot be reached, the means of arriving at selection decisions will be
determined by the Board of Trustees.
14.3.3 Procedures and Recall Provisions Under Layoff
Due notice of layoff for changes in the educational program or for financial exigency shall be
given to tenured members as early as feasible but not later than one year in advance of the
effective date of layoff, except in the case of an extraordinary financial exigency. If a state of
extraordinary financial exigency exists and one-year notice is not possible, shorter notice may be
given.
When financial exigency or changes in the educational program necessitate the layoff of tenured
members, extensive effort will be made to assist them to readapt within the institution, to
continue their work elsewhere, or to reduce the impact in every appropriate way, such as
providing for mid-career redirection (see Article 5.5.3), gradual retirement (see Article 5.5.2), or
changing the status from full time to part time, if the member affected is agreeable to any of these
arrangements.
If a tenured member is laid off for reasons of financial exigency (as specified in Article 14.3.2),
the vacant position will not be filled by a replacement within a period of two years, unless the
released member has been offered reappointment with tenure at the rank held at the time of layoff
and has been given at least one month's proper notice within which to accept or decline the
reappointment.
14.4 Dismissal
Dismissal is a severance action by which the University severs its professional relationship with a tenured
person for adequate cause. Dismissal is also the means by which the University removes from service for
adequate cause a probationary/tenure-track member or a member on a term appointment before the end of
the term appointment.
Adequate cause for dismissal must be directly and substantially related to the fitness of a member to
continue in his/her professional capacity. Dismissal proceedings may be instituted only for one or more
of the following reasons:
a. professional incompetence;
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