West Virginia Northern Community College
FULL-TIME FACULTY APPOINTMENT AND STATUS
Effective Date: June 24, 2004
Date Approved by WVNCC Board of Governors: June 24, 2004
Authority Reference: WV Code 18B-3C-9 (www.legis.state.wv.us/legishp.html); HEPC Series 8,
Section 2.1.6 and HEPC Series 9, Section 3.2.5, Section 9.3, Section 17.1
(www.hepc.wvnet.edu)
Replaces previous policy dated:
Rule: Full-time faculty are employed for a full academic year through a nine-month contract.
Consistent with HEPC Rule, “faculty” is a separate category from “classified” employees. The
College applies the applicable federal and state employment laws, rules of the West Virginia
Council for Community and Technical College Education, and rules of the WVNCC Board of
Governors regarding all faculty employment matters.
West Virginia Northern Community College employs full-time faculty with one of three
indications of status.
1. Tenured faculty: Those faculty who have earned tenure status. The College maintains
the goal of attaining no more than twenty percent of its full-time faculty employed in the
tenured status; however, no faculty who have been awarded tenured status are impacted
by this goal.
2. Term faculty: All regularly employed full-time faculty except those who previously
earned tenure status are employed as “term” faculty with appointments of one- to threeyear terms. Full-time term faculty are eligible for reappointment, although no number of
appointments shall create any presumption of the right to appointment as tenure-track or
tenured faculty. Term faculty are appointed to faculty rank and are expected to carry out
all responsibilities of full-time faculty, and are eligible for promotion and all other
employment benefits except tenure or tenure track status.
3. Temporary faculty: Faculty who are employed to teach on a full-time basis normally to
carry out a position designed to meet specific needs of that temporary period of time only
or to complete the position temporarily vacated by a term or tenured faculty. Temporary
faculty carry out instructional and other faculty responsibilities as assigned, with benefits
during the period of employment consistent with existing State personnel rules.
Temporary faculty are eligible for future appointment if a position for which they are
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qualified becomes available; however, there is no presumption that the faculty member
will be reappointed beyond the contract period designated.
Every faculty contract shall be for one fiscal year, or part thereof, in accordance with and
in compliance with the annual budget of the institution, or supplementary actions thereto,
as provided by law.
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