All professional track faculty should have contracts that are updated and uploaded in Workday. In most cases, with the exception of two-year and three-year fixed contracts, these contracts will be updated and uploaded annually.
Each spring (?? By what date?), administrative managers should prepare a spreadsheet listing all professional track faculty, their current contracts, and any updates for the following academic year. This spreadsheet should be reviewed and approved by (a) the department chair, and (b) Senior Associate Dean before the administrative manager updates the contracts and uploads to Workday.
Professional track faculty may be on a short-term (semester or one-year) contract, two year fixed contract, three year fixed contract, two year rolling contract, or three year rolling contract. Multi-year contracts are either fixed term (meaning they end without notice at conclusion of a two-year or three-year period) or rolling term (meaning that each year a new two- or three-year contract is offered to extend the contract end date by one additional year). Expiring faculty contracts can be renewed.
Newly hired professional track faculty should be hired with a short-term contract (either semester or year-long). In some cases (for example, when the hire is a result of a national search), the department chair may offer a contract for two- or three-year fixed term. Unless an exception is made by the Senior Associate Dean, a rolling contract should not be offered to newly hired faculty.
Multi-year contracts are intended to recognize extended and exemplary service to the instructional mission. The decision about whether to offer a multi-year contract is made by the department chair, with review and approval of the senior associate dean. Multi-year contracts may be offered in the following circumstances[m2]
Two-year fixed contract:
New hires hired as a result of a national search
Faculty promoted to the associate rank, upon their promotion.
Faculty at the assistant level who have demonstrated extended and exemplary service to the instructional mission (at least three years) and for whom the department anticipates and continued need.
Three-year fixed contract:
Faculty promoted to the full rank, upon their promotion.
Faculty at the associate level who have demonstrated extended and exemplary service to the instructional mission (at least three years) and for whom the department anticipates and continued need.
Two- or three-year rolling contracts are only offered in cases where a) department is confident of ongoing need, b) exemplary performance over many years, and c) a rolling contract is necessary to support retention. All rolling contracts must be approved by the Senior Associate Dean.
[m2]—all of these assume that the department chair anticipates that the need for instructional faculty will continue (working on this wording):