Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994 [PAGE 589]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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teaching assistant shall be for not longer than one year, and notice of nonreappointment is not required. Appointments at these ranks may be conditional upon the availability of funds if so specified in the notice of appointment. (5) Appointments which include in the title the terms "adjunct," "clinical," or "visiting," as authorized in the first paragraph of Article IX, Section 3c, shall be for not longer than one year. Notice of nonreappointment is not required in such cases. An appointment with the rank of "lecturer" or "instructor" likewise shall be considered a temporary appointment for not longer than one year, and notice of nonreappointment is not required. (6) An appointment with the rank of teaching associate, research associate, or clinical associate shall be for not longer than one year. In the case of nonsalaried appointees and all appointments at these ranks conditional upon the receipt of nonappropriated funds, if so specified in the notice of appointment, notice of nonreappointment is not required. Otherwise, written notice of nonreappointment of full-time employees at these ranks is required. The notice need not be accompanied by an offer of a terminal contract if the notice is given not later than six months before the end of an annual appointment or by March 1 in the case of an academicyear appointment; if notice of nonreappointment in such cases is given later than six months before the end of an annual appointment or after March 1 in the case of an academic-year appointment, it shall be accompanied by an offer from the Board of Trustees of a terminal contract for one additional year of service. (7) The tenure of other special classes of academic staff members authorized under Article IX, Sections 3c and 4a, shall be governed by the conditions prescribed in the preceding subparagraph, la(6). b. Upon the completion of a probationary period as hereafter defined, any reappointment of an assistant professor or an instructor shall be for an indefinite term, subject to the following: (1) An appointee receiving a first contract for more than fifty percent (50%) of full-time service at this University as assistant professor or instructor enters a probationary period not to exceed seven academic years of service. Prior academic service at other academic (or equivalent) institutions may be counted up to a maximum of three years toward the fulfillment of the probationary period. The amount of any such service counted may be negotiated as may other terms of the appointment and shall be stated in the first appointment contract, as provided for all contracts for definite terms in subparagraph lb(5) below. An initial appointment for a period of less than a full academic year ordinarily does not count toward the probationary period of a faculty member on definite tenure nor does it ordinarily count as service in establishing eligibility for a sabbatical leave with pay, unless recommended and agreed upon in advance. (2) No appointment at the rank of assistant professor or instructor shall be for an indefinite teriTL unless the appointment contract specifically states that it i8 for an indefinite term. (3) An appointee for a definite term shall be given, no later than August 31 at the Chicago campus and August 20 at the Urbana-Champaign campus in the sixth year of the probationary period, either written notice offering appointment for an indefinite term or written notice of nonreappointment. (4) At any time except during the last year of the probationary period, an instructor or assistant professor on a definite-term appointment may be given written notice of nonreappointment. Except in the case of an instructor or assistant professor who is in the first year of academic service at this University, (a) written notice of nonreappointment shall be given not less than twelve months before the expiration of the appointment; or (b) written notice of non-reappointment, if given less than twelve months before the expiration of the appointment, shall be accompanied by an offer from the Board of Trustees of a terminal contract for one additional year of academic service. In the case of an instructor or assistant professor on a definiteterm appointment who is in the first year of academic service at this University, written notice of nonreappointment shall be given not later than March 1 and need