The Health Programs Appointment System will only be open to individuals with a valid license to practice medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing or other clinical credential accepted by the State of Michigan appropriate for the professional role and function and appointed to one of three ranked levels: Assistant Professor (HP), Associate Professor (HP), or Professor (HP).
Initial appointments are made in units and/or departments reporting through the Deans of the Colleges, and to the Provost. Individuals with the credentials and job related responsibilities appropriate to be a member of the Health Programs Faculty might also be appointed in the Deans' offices and in other units or programs which originate out of the Deans' offices.
Initial appointments within this system are made for a three to five year period1. Departmental Administrators (Chairs) will make recommendations for initial appointments to the Dean. The Dean will make a final recommendation to the Provost who will make the final decision.
Additional appointments for two to five years each may be made following peer review by a body of the faculty member's peers (including HP faculty members), which is advisory to the Departmental Administrator. In coming to this decision, Departmental or College Administrators must use an Academic Unit Review Committee, i.e., a Promotion and Tenure Committee, or a Faculty Advisory Committee for their advice. This review process will occur during the year previous to the final year of an individual's appointment. If a faculty member is not to be appointed for an additional appointment period at the end of the initial appointment period, he/she must be notified at least 90 days in advance of the last date of the appointment.
Following the Departmental or College review and recommendation process, the Departmental Administrators (Chairs) will make a recommendation to the Dean regarding the additional appointment of the individual. The Dean will forward his/her recommendation on the additional appointment and the length of that additional appointment to the Provost for final decision.
The Health Programs Faculty Appointment System has been designed to assure that the individual appointed in this system will not be dismissed due to capricious action by the University, College or Department prior to the ending date of the appointment. Such assurance, however, does not protect individuals appointed under this system who engage in activities which are grounds for dismissal pursuant to those listed in Section 3.6.
Decisions regarding Health Programs Faculty not recommended for additional appointments will be made at the level of the college Dean.
Health Programs Faculty are covered under the terms of the Faculty Grievance Procedure (FGP).
Footnotes:
1Initial appointments in the College of Nursing are for a period of one to three years. Initial appointments in the College of Veterinary Medicine are for a period of one to five years.
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