Ohio Administrative Code

11.15 PDF: (A) The initial probationary contract for all clinical/teaching/practice faculty members must be for a period of five years. Second and subsequent contracts for clinical/teaching/practice assistant and associate professors must be for a period of at least three years a…

11.15 PDF: The procedures for reviewing clinical/teaching/practice faculty annually and for reappointment/non-reappointment and promotion shall be set forth in the relevant college, school or department appointments, promotion, and tenure. Procedures for promotion shall be consis…

11.15 PDF: A college, school, or department may provide for the possibility of transfers from the tenure faculty track to the clinical/teaching/practice faculty if appropriate to its circumstances. A unit that permits transfers must abide by the following:(A) The request for tran…

11.15 PDF: Transfers from the clinical/teaching/practice faculty to the tenure-track faculty are not permitted. Clinical/teaching/practice faculty may apply for tenure-track positions and compete in regular national searches for such positions. Authorized By: RC 3335 Amplifies: R…

11.15 PDF: (A) A college or academic unit determines the level of participation in college and departmental structures.(B) A college or academic unit may, by vote of at least a majority of all of its tenure-track faculty, determine that the clinical/teaching/practice members of i…

11.15 PDF: Research faculty appointments are fixed term contract appointments that do not entail tenure. Research faculty are researchers and shall be engaged in research related to the mission and goals of the academic unit. Last updated October 16, 2023 at 9:02 AM Authorized By…

11.15 PDF: Titles will be research assistant professor, research associate professor, or research professor. Last updated March 8, 2022 at 8:36 AM Authorized By: 3335 Amplifies: 3335.08 Prior Effective Dates: 7/26/2004, 7/9/2013

11.15 PDF: With tenure-track faculty majority approval, research faculty may be appointed by colleges that do not have schools or departments and by schools and departments in colleges that have such subunits. Unless otherwise authorized by a majority vote of the tenure-track fac…

11.15 PDF: Procedures for appointment of research faculty shall be established by the college, school or department making such appointments and set forth in that unit's appointments, promotion, and tenure document and approved by a vote of tenure-track faculty of the unit and th…

11.15 PDF: The primary duty of research faculty is to conduct research. A research faculty member may, but is not required to, participate in limited educational activities in the area of their expertise. However, teaching opportunities for each research faculty member must be ap…

11.15 PDF: (A) Contracts will be for a period of at least one year and for no more than five years.(B) Contracts must explicitly state the expectations for salary support. The faculty member will be expected to cover no more than ninety-five per cent of their salary. It is expect…

11.15 PDF: The procedures for reviewing research faculty annually and for reappointment/non-reappointment and promotion shall be set forth in the relevant, tenure-track faculty approved, college, school or department appointments, promotion and tenure document and shall be consis…

11.15 PDF: Governance rights within a tenure-initiating unit (TIU) at the local level will be determined by the TIU and will require a vote of its voting faculty.Research faculty will also be eligible to advise and supervise graduate and postdoctoral students and to be a principa…

11.15 PDF: A college, school or department may provide for the possibility of transfer from the tenuretrack faculty to the research faculty if appropriate to its circumstances and if provided for in the unit's appointments, promotion and tenure document. A unit that permits trans…

11.15 PDF: Transfers from the research faculty to the tenure-track faculty are not permitted. However, research faculty may apply for tenure-track positions and compete in regular national searches for such positions. Authorized By: 3335 Amplifies: 3335.08 Prior Effective Dates: …

11.15 PDF: The office of academic affairs will submit an annual report to the university senate detailing the number, funding source, and TIU of research faculty appointments that have been made the previous year. Also included in the report will be the conditions of the appointm…

11.15 PDF: (A) The university may grant unpaid leave to a classified civil service employee. Such leave may be for personal or medical reasons for up to a maximum of six months, however, the six months may be extended at the discretion of the university.(B) An unpaid medical leav…

11.15 PDF: The university provides military leave and benefits in accordance with federal and state laws, including but not limited to, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). Authorized By: RC 3335 Amplifies: RC 3335.08 Prior Effective Dates: 6/14…

11.15 PDF: (A) The university shall grant court leave without loss of pay to any employee who:(1) Is summoned for jury duty;(2) Is subpoenaed to appear before any court, commission, board or other legally constituted body authorized by law to compel the attendance of witnesses, w…

11.15 PDF: (A) If the university believes that an employee can no longer perform the essential job duties of the position, then the university may require that the employee submit to a medical psychological, and/or functional capacity examination performed by a licensed practitio…

11.15 PDF: An employee who is unable to perform the essential job duties of the position due to a disabling illness, injury, or condition may request a voluntary disability separation. A voluntary disability separation occurs when an employee does not dispute the inability to per…

11.15 PDF: The university may place an employee on administrative leave with pay at its discretion. Such leave is to be used in circumstances when the health or safety of any employee or of any person or property entrusted to the employee's care could be adversely affected or dur…

11.15 PDF: (A) Performance management is an ongoing process between the employee and supervisor that includes setting expectations and goals, coaching, feedback, training and development, and performance review.(B) Employees shall have a written performance review on an annual ba…

11.15 PDF: (A) Supervisors shall manage deficient performance through the process defined by the office of human resources. The university at its discretion may move directly to termination in cases that warrant immediate termination.(B) The performance improvement process may be…

11.15 PDF: Sick leave credit accrues at the rate of 4.6 hours for each eighty hours of service. Sick time accrues during hours worked and paid absences. It does not accrue during unpaid time off. Employees in part-time, seasonal, and temporary positions accrue sick leave at the s…

11.15 PDF: An employee who transfers from another Ohio public agency to the university or who has prior service with an Ohio public agency shall upon employment with the university be credited with all sick leave not used or converted to a cash benefit, provided that such reemplo…

11.15 PDF: An employee may be either granted unpaid leave in accordance with rule 3335-73-01 of the Administrative Code, or the university may pursue disability separation of the employee in accordance with rule 3335-73-04 of the Administrative Code prior to the expiration of ear…

11.15 PDF: Sick leave shall be charged in minimum units of one-tenth hour. An employee shall be charged for sick leave only for days upon which the employee otherwise would have been scheduled to work. Sick leave payment shall not exceed the normal scheduled work day or work week…

11.15 PDF: (A) Sick leave shall be granted to an employee upon approval of the appropriate administrative official and for the following reasons:(1) Illness or injury of the employee or a member of the employee's immediate or extended family;(2) Death of a member of the immediate…

11.15 PDF: If medical attention is required, a certificate from a licensed practitioner stating the nature of the illness may be required for the use of sick leave. Falsification of sick leave documentation is grounds for disciplinary action up to and including termination. Autho…

11.15 PDF: When an employee is unable to report to work, the employee shall notify the person designated by the university within the time frame established by the university, unless emergency conditions make such notification impossible. The requirement for subsequent notificati…

11.15 PDF: (A) The university may require an employee to take a medical and/or psychological, and/or functional capacity examination, conducted by a licensed practitioner selected by the university, to determine the physical and/or mental capability to perform the essential dutie…

11.15 PDF: Employees failing to comply with sick leave rules set forth in Chapter 3335-79 of the Administrative Code shall not be paid for such absences. Application for sick leave with the intent to defraud shall result in termination and refund to the university of salary or wa…

11.15 PDF: (A) Upon retirement from active university service after ten or more years of combined service with the university, state of Ohio, or any of its political sub-divisions, an employee may choose to be paid for one-fourth of the accrued unused sick leave credit up to a ma…

11.15 PDF: (A) If an employee dies while actively employed by the university, and had ten or more years of state of Ohio or any of its political subdivisions and/or university service, payment for one fourth of the accrued unused sick leave up to a maximum payment of two hundred …

11.15 PDF: The highest administrative official directly overseeing the office of vice president of human resources may establish or approve sick leave payout programs in addition to any other programs defined in this chapter, at his or her discretion. Authorized By: RC 3335 Ampli…

11.15 PDF: (A) A course is the unit of instruction or research through which the educational program of the university is offered to its students.(B) A curriculum is a program of courses leading to a certificate, a degree, or to entry into a professional college, school or a prof…

11.15 PDF: (A) All proposals for the establishment, alteration and abolition of courses and curricula must be submitted to the council on academic affairs. Such proposals shall follow the procedure outlined in rule 3335-5-48.1 of the Administrative Code and shall be subject to re…

11.15 PDF: Proposals for establishing new courses or curricula for alterations in existing courses or curricula shall originate in the departments or schools and, in the case of departments, shall be subject to acceptance, revision, or rejection by the college or school of which …

11.15 PDF: In determining credit for the degrees for which they are individually responsible, the several colleges, schools, and the graduate school shall have full authority to accept or to reject courses approved pursuant to rule 3335-8-03 of the Administrative Code. In the eve…

11.15 PDF: (A) Courses numbered 1000-1099 are undergraduate non-credit courses for orientation, remedial, or other non college-level experiences. These courses are in addition to a program's graduation requirements.(B) Courses numbered 1100-1999 are introductory level courses pro…

11.15 PDF: All undergraduate students must complete a program of general education coursework enabling them to acquire and develop a breadth of knowledge, skills, and perspectives that cross disciplinary boundaries and extend to areas outside of majors, minors and other specializ…

11.15 PDF: All official bulletins of the university shall be published from the copy furnished by the council on academic affairs; but mere editorial changes, as defined by the council on academic affairs, may be made in such copy by the appropriate designated individual in the o…

11.15 PDF: Regularly scheduled class appointments shall have precedence over any special examinations or exercises not provided for on the calendar or by faculty action. Authorized By: 3335 Amplifies: 3335.08 Prior Effective Dates: 3/13/1978

11.15 PDF: The interval between the close of one class period and the beginning of the next shall be fifteen minutes. Authorized By: 3335 Amplifies: 3335.08 Prior Effective Dates: 3/13/1978, 7/26/2004

11.15 PDF: Instructors shall make their class rosters solely from the rosters issued by the office of the university registrar, except that each department or school is authorized to change the hour assignment of a student for courses offered in more than one section. The departm…

11.15 PDF: The deans or secretaries of the several colleges and schools, or designees, shall approve the schedules of classes of students in their colleges and schools but the assignment to hours and all changes in such assignment shall be made by the office of the university reg…