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(V.) B. PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION

1. Participation and Responsibilities of Part-Time Faculty:
   1. Departments should encourage professional activities from their part-time Faculty members, and should attempt to provide opportunities to teach and otherwise participate in their areas of specialization.

   2. A part-time Faculty member with a yearly contract shall, after the equivalent of one year of full-time teaching, be considered as a voting member of his or her department and in the general Faculty.

   3. Part-time Faculty members shall be eligible to carry their share of responsibilities such as advising students, serving on committees, directing theses, etc.

   4. Part-time Faculty members shall be eligible to apply for a sabbatical after teaching the equivalent of a four-year full-time teaching load.

2. Evaluation:
   1. It is the responsibility of the part-time Faculty member to keep the department informed of all of his or her professional activities.

   2. A record shall be kept in both the President's Office, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the departmental files of all of the professional activities of each part-time member of the Faculty. That record, to be brought up-to-date each year by the individual on a form provided by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty shall include (1) courses taught, other teaching activities, committee memberships or administrative duties in the department and the College; (2) publications, scholarly lectures and papers, work in progress, professional activities such as editorial work, participation in professional organizations, consulting, and any other activities that are part of the individual's scholarly and academic performance.

   3. The procedures followed in all cases of appointment, promotion, and tenure with regard to evaluation of teaching and scholarship are those procedures as defined in Section II (Criteria and Evidence), Section III (Promotion), and Section IV (Tenure).

   4. In determining eligibility for sabbaticals, or for determining the probationary period before the tenure decision, all occasional semester appointments should be included for persons on appointments of one year or more.

   5. In any case involving promotion, tenure, or removal from the Faculty, it shall be left to the discretion of the President if and when a joint meeting of the Committee on Tenure and Promotion and the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees is in order.