Faculty Handbook - Fairmont State University

preparation and experience and on appropriate levels of excellence in professional performance
and service for each rank. In no case is promotion to a higher rank automatic when a faculty
member fulfills the minimum requirements.
Five years from July 1, 1999, the Faculty Senate will appoint a committee of all academic ranks to
monitor promotion and tenure guidelines that will document the strengths and weaknesses of the
guidelines. The report will be ready seven years from the implementation of the guidelines. There
shall be no practice of granting promotion routinely nor of denying promotion capriciously.
Standards for Academic Rank and Promotion
It is the responsibility of the applicant to have complete transcripts on file in the President's office
prior to applying for promotion. All degrees and credits must be earned at institutions accredited
by nationally or internationally recognized regional and professional agencies and must be verified
by official transcripts. Employment in part-time, summer term, graduate assistant positions, or
temporary positions at other institutions is not credited toward experience in rank. However, 'If the
status of a faculty member changes from temporary to tenure-track, the time spent at the
institution may, at the discretion of the President, be counted as part of the tenure-track period.'
(See Section 4.4 of Title 133, Procedural Rules, HEPC, Series 9). Deficiencies in academic
preparation, professional experience, and/or application procedures render one ineligible for
consideration for promotion.
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PROFESSOR/SENIOR LEVEL
To apply for the rank of Professor/Senior Level, a faculty member must meet the following
minimum requirements:
1) eighteen years of combined college teaching and/or equivalent professional experience;
AND
2) eight years of teaching experience as a Professor at Fairmont State University.
For the Professor/Senior Level, the Education requirements and the Criteria for Evaluation are
identical to those currently in effect for the Professor rank described in the Fairmont State
University Faculty Handbook.
PROFESSOR:
To be eligible to apply for promotion to the rank of Professor, a faculty member must meet the
following minimum requirements:
EDUCATION:
1) hold an earned doctorate or terminal degree appropriate to the teaching field;
AND
2) have achieved professional and scholarly eminence. Scholarship will be broadly defined to
include not only the scholarship of discovery (e.g., publications in nationally or
internationally recognized professional journals, professional awards or honors,
professional papers delivered at national or international conferences, service as consultant
to nationally or internationally recognized groups or agencies), but also the scholarship of
teaching (with recognition for the inclusion of educational technology into instruction),
integration, and application; the development of new courses and/or laboratories; and
creative exhibits, performances, and/or presentations. Primary consideration will be given