Faculty without Full Teaching Loads

If joint appointment is approved, the faculty member shall have all rights of faculty in the home department and the home department shall have priority in teaching assignments and committee appointments. The faculty member may not represent two (2) departments on a unit committee and may sit on only one (1) FPB. A faculty member with a joint appointment may be a member of the DPC in both departments, with the exception that they may only vote in the home department on candidates for joint appointments to both departments or in any other situation in which both departments are voting on the same individual. A joint appointee who chooses to sit on the DPC in both departments may not serve as a member of the FPB if both departments are in the same unit. If the departments are in different units, the joint appointee may serve on one (1) of the FPBs.

In respect to all personnel decisions affecting the joint appointee, including annual evaluations, applications for special leaves and incentive awards, the Department Chairperson of the home department shall perform the functions of the Department Chairperson. The DPC in the home department shall serve as the personnel committee for all personnel recommendations affecting the joint appointee delegated to the DPC. For all recommendations, the Department Chairperson shall be responsible for soliciting input from the Department Chairperson and DPC of the joint department and disseminating such information to the DPC of the home department.

Should a joint appointee become a Department Chairperson in either

Department, the department in which they become Department Chairperson shall become the home department for the period during which the joint appointee remains in the Department Chairperson position and, for the duration of that appointment, the joint appointee shall not serve on any faculty personnel committees (i.e., DPC, Ad Hoc Tenure Committee) or represent the faculty of the other department on any school or University committee. If a current Department Chairperson wishes to petition for joint appointment in another department, that Department Chairperson shall recuse themself from the approval process; if the joint appointment is approved, the department of which they are Chairperson shall be the home department and, for the duration of the appointment as Department Chairperson, the individual shall not serve . on any faculty personnel committees or represent the faculty of the other department on School or University committees.

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