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7.0 Termination
SECTION SEVEN
POLICY AND PROCEDURE FOR FACULTY DISCIPLINE,
DISMISSAL
Termination of the employment of a faculty member who has been granted tenure and of all
other faculty members before the expiration of the stated period of their appointment, except by
resignation or retirement, shall be for good cause.
7.1 Good Causes
Serious professional or personal misconduct, as determined by University due process as set
forth in this section, constitutes good cause for termination. Serious professional or personal
misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:
A. Commission of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or a felony.
B. Willful destruction of University property or violent disruption of the orderly
operation of the campus.
C. Accepting or soliciting gifts that influence the discharge of one’s professional
responsibilities.
D. Misappropriating and publishing as one’s own the ideas or words of another.
E. Misappropriation or illegal or serious misuse of State property, State funds, or
funds held by a faculty member as part of official duties.
F. Sexual harassment, which includes, but is not limited to:
1) making unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors or other
verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, a condition of an employee's
continued employment or of a student's evaluations or grades, or
2) making submission to or rejections of such conduct the basis for employment
decisions, evaluations or grades affecting the employee or the student, or
3) creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working or learning environment
by certain conduct, whether physical or verbal, including but not limited to
references to an individual's body; use of sexually degrading words to
describe an individual; offensive comments; off-color language or jokes;
innuendoes; and sexually suggestive objects or behavior, books, magazines,
photographs, cartoons or pictures.
G. Discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin,
religion, sex or handicap.
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