Faculty Handbook 2012 - 2013

Normally, part-time appointments are made on a semester-by-semester basis, or year-by-year basis. Faculty members who teach full-time or part-time on year-by-year or semester-by-semester contracts will normally be reviewed in their third year of employment at Denison. If such faculty members are rehired, they will also be reviewed in their sixth year of employment, and at regular intervals thereafter. A review of the person's work will usually occur after no later than six semesters of service. If a decision is made not to offer reappointment, the appropriate chair will inform the person of the rationale for the decision.

A part-time faculty member on a yearly contract and working the equivalent of .75 FTE (including teaching, scholarship, and service responsibilities) is eligible for all staff benefits available to full-time faculty. (See Section V, "Financial Arrangements and Faculty Benefits," for further information.) A part-time faculty member working at less that a .75 FTE is eligible for coverage under the State of Ohio Unemployment Compensation System, Workers' Compensation Program of the State of Ohio and the Federal Social Security Program

Part-time teaching faculty are appointed according to the normal procedure for the recruitment and appointment of full-time faculty to the extent feasible and with modification appropriate to the particular position. In general, in recruitment and hiring, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action procedures relative to race, color, natural or ethnic origin, religion, and gender are followed. The search normally is restricted to the immediate central Ohio area, particularly, Granville, Newark, and Columbus. Dossiers are submitted and reviewed by members of the department and personal interviews take place with the candidate or candidates. Appointments are made according to professional qualifications with due regard for high quality prior service to Denison.

A full-time member of the faculty normally teaches three courses or the equivalent each semester, maintains office hours, and engages in some form of scholarly activity. A full-time member also assumes additional responsibilities such as the supervision of directed studies, senior research, honors projects and the like, and the advisement of students, service to the department in a variety of ways, service on committees and/or councils, and the like, and so on. Part-time faculty generally are not expected to assume these responsibilities.