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CUL Procedure #13: Appendix A
excerpt from Bylaws of Cornell University
April 1995
1. Grades of Appointment: Appointments to the University's staff of instruction and research shall be made at one of the following grades: university professor, professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, senior scholar, senior scientist, senior research associate, senior extension associate, senior lecturer, professional librarian or archivist, research associate, extension associate, postdoctoral associate, postdoctoral fellow, lecturer or teaching associate and such other grades and titles at the Medical College as may be approved by the President on the recommendation of the Provost for Medical Affairs. Descriptive terms such as "visiting", "acting" or "research" may precede titles. Visiting scholars and scientists who are afforded facilities for resident work but who perform no formal duties and are paid no salary may be appointed by the President to the title of visiting fellow. Visitors also may be appointed as visiting scientists, visiting scholars or visiting critics with or without salary. The titles of senior scholar and senior scientist shall not be applicable to the staff at the Medical College.
2. Tenure and Method of Appointment: Except as otherwise specified in Section 6. below, all appointments shall be made with the tenure and in the manner following:
a. University professor, professor or associate professor - shall be elected by the Board, by ballot, for an indefinite term. The President shall appoint professors and associate professors to term appointments for the maximum period of five academic years of full-time equivalent service, continued only for reasons which, in the judgment of the President, are temporary.
b. Promotion of an associate professor with indefinite tenure to full professor shall be by presidential action.
c. Assistant professor - shall be appointed by the President for a term of not to exceed four years. The maximum period of service for assistant professors with term appointments shall be six academic years of full-time equivalent service, continued only for reasons which, in the judgment of the President, are temporary.
d. Senior scholar, senior scientist, senior research associate, senior extension associate and senior lecturer - shall be appointed by the President for a term of not to exceed five years, renewable indefinitely. Research associate, extension associate and lecturer - shall be appointed by the President for a term of not to exceed three years, renewable indefinitely.
e. Professional librarian or archivist - shall be appointed by the President for specified terms. Assistant librarian or assistant archivist and senior assistant librarian or senior assistant archivist shall be appointed for terms normally not to exceed three years. Librarian or archivist and associate librarian or associate archivist shall be appointed for terms not to exceed five years, renewable indefinitely.
f. Instructor - shall be appointed by the President for a term of not to exceed two years. The maximum period of service for an instructor shall be five academic years, continued only for reasons which, in the judgment of the President, are temporary.
g. Postdoctoral associate and postdoctoral fellow - shall be appointed by the President for a term of not to exceed one year, normally renewable only twice.
h. Teaching associate - shall be appointed by the President for a term of not to exceed one year, renewable indefinitely.
i. The foregoing provisions with respect to maximum periods of service shall not apply to the Medical College, the Department of Military Science and Tactics, the Department of Naval Science or the Department of Air Service.
3. All appointments, reappointments or promotions under this Article XVIII shall be made pursuant to procedures approved by the President form time to time. Such procedures shall be designed to assure that candidates for similar positions receive comparable procedural treatment.
4. Courtesy Appointments: Persons having professional qualifications for regular faculty appointments who serve on the staff of an academic department although employed by an outside agency, may be appointed by the President to the teaching staff at the professorial, instructor or lecturer level with the modifier "courtesy" appended to the appropriate title. Such courtesy appointments may be approved for renewable terms of not to exceed five years each. Courtesy appointments may be approved for renewable terms of not to exceed five years each. Courtesy appointments, reappointments and promotions shall be subject to the same departmental and college reviews as regular professorial appointments. Such appointments shall be without salary or fringe benefits.
5. Adjunct Professors: Persons having professional qualifications for regular faculty appointments but who will serve only part-time may be appointed by the President to the staff of instruction and research as adjunct professor, adjunct associate professor or adjunct assistant professor. Adjunct professors or adjunct associate professors may be appointed for renewable terms of not to exceed five years each. Adjunct assistant professors may be appointed for renewable terms of not to exceed three years each.
April 1995
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