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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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(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 t h e . 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