Chapter VI - Table of Contents
Personnel and Professional Policies
Section A: Philosophical Precepts
- Definition of "Faculty"
- Consultation
- Academic Freedom, Professional Ethics, and Faculty Rights
- Principles of Academic Freedom
- Statement of Professional Ethics
- Faculty Rights
- Related Procedures
- Protection Against Misconduct in Research
- University-Wide Guiding Principles of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Cal State LA
- Statement of Responsibility for Providing Student Advisement
- Office Hours
- Incompatible Activities
- Political Activities
- Conflict of Interest
- Conflict of Interest in Faculty Assigned Materials
- Attendance at Commencement and Honors Convocations
Section B: Appointment, Retention, Tenure, Promotion, and Evaluation
- Recruitment of Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty
- Appointments
- Affiliate Status
- Personnel Accomplishments Reports (PAR)
- Personnel Files and Other Employment Records
- Departmental/Divisional/School and College Personnel Documents
- Faculty Archives
- Personnel Committees
- Calendar
- Evaluation of Permanent Instructional Faculty
- Evaluation of Permanent Library Faculty
- Evaluation of Permanent Counselor Faculty
- Evaluation of Temporary Instructional Faculty
- Evaluation of Temporary Library Faculty
- Evaluation of Temporary Counselor Faculty
- Peer Observations of Instruction
- Oral Testimony
- Resignation
- Eligibility Criteria for Tenure and Promotion
- Procedures for Nomination and Recommendation for Promotion
- Evaluation of Faculty Serving as Administrators
- Student Input in Academic Personnel Processes
- Temporary Full-Time and Part-Time Faculty (Lecturers)
- Appointment Procedures for Grant-Related Instructional Faculty of Exceptional Merit
- International Faculty Exchange Program
- Visiting Faculty Appointments
- Volunteer Faculty
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Section C: Reduced Worktime, Preretirement, and Retirement Plans
- Reduced Worktime Program
- Preretirement and Retirement Plans
- Voting Rights of Faculty
Section D: Teaching Assignments
- Direction of Graduate Theses and Projects
- Teaching Responsibilities
- Faculty Teaching and Supervision Records
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Section E: Employment Policies and Procedures
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Policy Statement on Equal Employment Opportunity
- Policy for The California State University
- Policy on Nepotism
- Policy on Prohibition of Sexual Harassment
- Policy on Consensual Sexual Relations
- Policy on Campus Violence
- Policy on Drugs in the Workplace
- Pay Periods
- Change of Status Reporting
- Additional Employment Assignment and Payment
- Employment in External Grants and Contracts
- Employment of Graduate Students in Instruction
- Layoff Procedures
- Participation in the Deliberations Prior to Layoff
- Procedures for Grievances and Faculty Status Disputes
- Disciplinary Action Procedures for Academic Personnel
- Absence Without Leave as Resignation; Reinstatement
- Dismissal
Section F: Leaves and Vacations
- Vacations
- Leaves of Absence with Pay
- Sabbatical and Difference in Pay Leaves
- Special Leaves for Research or Creative Activity
- Sick Leave
- Other Leaves of Absence with Pay
- Leave of Absence without Pay