Draft Proposal

The committee on renewable term faculty recommends that the definition of regular faculty be changed in the faculty handbook as stated in section 3.5 of the proposed revisions in the regents handbook, “Regular faculty appointment(s) to an academic position must be a) a tenure-track appointment (beginning and terminating at a specified date), b) a tenured appointment (beginning with and following the granting of tenure) or c) a ranked renewable term/consecutive term appointment (renewable annually for a fixed term); and must be at the rank of assistant professor, associate professor or professor.”

This change in definition will affect all other sections that refer to the regular faculty and in turn will modify the faculty handbook.

The committee on renewable term faculty recommends that a limit on the proportion of renewable term faculty be enacted, as stated in section 3.5.3 of the proposed revisions in the regents handbook, “At no time may the number of the ranked renewable term faculty exceed ten percent of the number of tenure-track and tenured faculty on the Norman campus. For any individual academic unit, the limit should be no greater than twenty-five percent.”

The committee on renewable term faculty also recommends the addition of the sentence, “Renewable term/consecutive term faculty contract renewals will follow the process of the appointing college.”