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CHAPTER 3 - FACULTY AND ACADEMICS
Sec. 3.16. Threatened Faculty Retrenchment
- Whenever there is reason to anticipate that the University is sufficiently threatened by financial exigency, declines in enrollment, or changes in educational needs to endanger the continuance of the University's obligations to faculty members with tenure or those on regular academic appointments, the President at the earliest date possible shall inform the University Council, the Faculty Senate, the Committee of Counsel on Academic Freedom and Responsibility and all potentially affected budgetary units about the threatening problem.
- The President shall consult with these faculty groups to determine the nature and seriousness of the problem, the most appropriate of the possible courses of action to be taken, and the means of safeguarding faculty rights and interests, including tenure rights.
- The Committee of Counsel on Academic Freedom and Responsibility shall advise, monitor, and make recommendations with respect to the protection of the rights of faculty members throughout the process of planning and effecting the solution to the problem.
- In solving such a problem, The University shall make every reasonable effort to reassign affected faculty members to other suitable work and to aid them in finding other employment.