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238 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January ig
(b) No person employed by the University shall have any interests incompatible
with those of the University.
(c) Full-time employees shall not receive compensation for services
within the University in excess of a normal schedule, except for a reasonable
amount of instruction in the Division of University Extension or for the
grading of special examinations (outside regular course work) stipulated by
the University, all to be done during off-duty hours. Exceptions may be made
to this rule in special cases which are approved by the dean of the college of
which the employee is a member, provided that if such additional payments
exceed a nominal amount, the advance approval of the President or of the
Vice-President and Provost shall be secured. These exceptions shall be held
to a minimum.
(d) The responsibilities to the University of full-time members of the
academic staff are held to be fulfilled when a teaching load appropriate to the
rank and program is carried, an appropriate amount of productive scholarly
research, aid in a program of public service, and a reasonable share of committee
assignments is performed. Such staff members may carry on some
professional or business activities of an income-producing character, so long
as such activities are compatible and not in conflict with University interests.
The head of the department of which the employee is a member should know
and approve of these activities outside the University.
TENURE OF ACADEMIC STAFF
Sec. 38. (a) Unless otherwise provided in these Statutes (and in the
absence of some special written agreement approved by the President of the
University with the consent of the appointee) the tenure for the various
members of the academic staff shall be as stated herein, except that first
appointments or temporary appointments may be made for shorter periods.
(1) An appointment as professor or associate professor shall be for an
indefinite term.
(2) An appointment as assistant professor, or to the administrative staff,
shall be for a period not longer than two years from September 1 of the first
year of the legislative biennium.
(3) Appointments to lower ranks shall be for not more than one year.
(b) The appointment of any person for a definite term does not carry
any guarantee or implication that the. Board of Trustees will renew the
appointment at its termination, even though the appointee may have discharged
his duties satisfactorily. Any appointment, if accepted, must be
accepted with this stipulation.
(c) Tenure may be terminated by (1) honorable retirement; (2) acceptance
of resignation; (3) discharge for cause.
(d) Cause for discharge shall consist of conduct seriously prejudicial to
the University through deliberate infraction of law or commonly accepted
standards of morality, neglect of duty, inefficiency or incompetency. The
enumeration of causes for discharge shall not be deemed exclusive, and the
Board of Trustees reserves the power to discharge for other causes, but it is
to be distinctly understood that this power will be exercised only under exceptional
circumstances and then only for conduct which is clearly prejudicial to
the best interests of the University.
(e) An appointee on definite tenure shall not be removed before the expiration
of his term of service, nor shall an appointee on indefinite tenure be