66 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Other professional staff includes archivists and curators.
Our librarians and other professional staff are on annual renewable appointments and do not have faculty or parallel
status. We are in the process of implementing a ranking system.
Our librarians have faculty status with rank, no tenure.
Professional staff (i.e., HR, OD, Finance, IT) do not have faculty status.
Professional staff are not consider academic so they have no rank of any kind. They are classified in job levels and
have exempt status. Some of them are Executive/Administrative class, but this is not parallel to anything on the
academic side.
We have just introduced Academic Staff, which are faculty-equivalent.
44. Please indicate whether librarians and other professional staff are eligible for tenure
commensurate with teaching faculty or a parallel status, sometimes referred to as continuing
appointment, or are appointed for a specific period of time (e.g., 3 or 5 years). Please make one
selection per row. N=43
Category Tenure Continuing appointment Time-specific appointment N
Librarians 19 16 7 42
Other professional staff 3 18 5 26
Total Responses 20 28 11 43
Comments N=13
Librarians: Appointment renewed annually.
Because our professional staff are not academic employees they do not meet any of the above selections.
Following successful completion of a one-year probationary period, both have continuing appointments.
Librarians appointments are for one-year terms.
Librarians are at-will employees generally. At the Law Center they can be contracted for up to three years.
Most of our MLS/MIS holders and some with other degrees are in faculty positions these positions are tenure track.
Our professional staff includes some MLS/MIS holders and many with other degrees these positions are continuing
appointment. We also have some professional staff on limited-term appointments.
None of the above. Librarians do not have tenure or continuing employment. They are “at will” employees, but it is
*not* time-specific or limited.
Note: depending on their category, some “other professionals” are at-will and some have permanent status.
Other appointments can be either continuing or time-specific.
Other professional staff are treated as exempt staff without academic status.
Other professional staff includes archivists and curators.
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