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Criteria for Granting Tenure at College of the
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College of the Mainland, Texas City, Tex.
13 Oct 69
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ABSTRACT
Tollowinq a brief description of the purposes of
tenure, the Dolicy adopted by the College of the Mainland (Texas) in
July 1967 was presented. The policy outlines: who is eligible to
receive tenure, the rights o^ those who have received tenure, and the
criteria and procedure used by the president for recommendina tenure.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION l WELFARE
OFFICE OF EDUCATION
COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE
PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT. POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS
STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION
POSITION OR POLIC/.
October 13, 1969
CRITERIA FOR GRANTING TENURE
AT COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND
I. INTRODUCTION
A review of the history of tenure in colleges in the United
States reveals that tenure means that the person who has achieved
tenure has the option of continuing employment in the institution
granting the tenure; i. e. , he who has tenure can be discharged
only for cause and through due process.
History also reveals a purpose of tenure is to enable the
teacher to lead students into inquiry into controversial areas of study
without fear that his job will be taken from him for having done so.
In the universities the freedom to do scholarly research in any and
all areas of phenomena, both social and non- social, without fear of
having his job taken from him because of such scholarly inquiry, is
a purpose of tenure.
History further also reveals that a purpose of tenure is to protect
the teacher when an influential person or persons, either inside or
s3 outside of the institution, desire/s to terminate or cause the termination
of the employment of the teacher for arbitrary rea g^ RS |fy distinguished
from cause.
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College of the Mainland Tenure Policy was adopted by the
Trustees on July 13, 1967, and is as follows:
A. Tenure
1. A member of the instructional staff of the College who has
been granted tenure by the Board of Trustees shall have the
status of permanent member of the instructional staff and
be in continuing employment of the College until:
a. He voluntarily leaves the employ of the College
b. He retires
c. He is dismissed by the Board of Trustees for cause
d. He dies
2. Tenure may be granted by the Board of Trustees only on
the recommendation of the President. Nomination of a
faculty member for tenure shall signify the President is
satisfied that an acceptable degree of competence has been
demonstrated and that continuing employment of the person
concerned will serve the best interest of the College.
3 Tenure shall apply only to instructional positions.
Administrators who have teaching responsibilities may
qualify for tenure in the teaching position concerned only.
No person shall be granted tenure in a non-teaching or
purely administrative position.
A person may become eligible for consideration for tenure
when he has completed three full academic years of uninter-
rupted service in teaching in the College. A person who has
not been granted tenure by the end of five full academic years
of uninterrupted service shall automatically be granted tenure
if he is to be retained in employment beyond five years
except as provided in paragraph three (3) of the section on
N epotism .- (Note: Three full academic years shall be con-
strued to mean 10f months in teaching multiplied by 3, excep
for Chairmen, in which case three years of uninterrupted
service shall be considered three full academic years).
The Board of Trustees may grant tenure at an earlier time
if it is recommended with sufficient justification by the President.
Time spent away from the institution, except when the employe
is on a special assignment and paid by the institution, shall
not be counted toward the fulfillment of eligibility for tenure.
Regular retirement of the President and all other full-time
employees of the College shall take place at age sixty-five
(65). After sixty-five (65), the employee may be re-elected
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year to year at the discretion of the Board of Trustees
until he reaches age seventy (70), at which time retirement
is compulsory. ( Policies , July 13, 1967).
Paragraph 2. above assigns to the President the serious respon-
sibility of recommending to the Trustees those who shall be granted
tenure in instructional positions. Where a person is both a super-
visor and an instructor, tenure is limited to and applies only to the
instructional role. For instance, a person in Salary Schedule B-I
who is in that salary schedule solely because he is a Chairman cen
be granted tenure only in the instructional role and should he cease to
be Chairman after being granted tenure he would move to Salary
Schedule B-II.
CRITERIA THAT THE PRESIDENT WILL USE TO RECOMMEND TENURE
A. Introduction: All of the following criteria are derived directly
or indirectly from current Board or Administrative policies.
B. Criteria: The following criteria should be studied carefully
by all persons who may be subject to the tenure policy and
especially by persons in supervisory positions. Persons in
supervisory positions have the direct responsibility for preparing
persons for tenure or for, when the evidence is sufficient th?t
the individual has not the ability and/or the will to fulfill
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to an acceptable degree the terms of his contract, counseling
the individual to find employment elsewhere.
a. The individual must have demonstrated that he has designed,
and continues to design, teaching and learning work in each
course on the basis of behaviorally specified objectives.
(See Section III. B. for basis of judgement. )
b. The individual must have demonstrated that he has written,
and continues to write, behaviorally specified objectives
which meet the minimal specifications for sound behaviorally
specified objectives. (See the Manual for Course Planning
for criteria. )
c. The individual must have demonstrated that he has functioned
cooperatively both laterally and with his supervisor. (See
III. B. for basis for judgement. )
d. The individual must have demonstrated that he has designed
and reconstructed teaching and learning work experimentally;
i. e. , with awareness, exercise of imagination, and with
continuous observation of the ends-means process with a
view to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of student
learning work. (Evidence of reconstruction is key basis for
judgement. )
e. The individual must have demonstrated that he has gone
beyond the conventional and traditional shape of teaching
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and learning by innovating on the following parameters,
among others, but not limited to:
1) Time
2) Place
3) Available tools of teaching and learning work
4) Organization of teaching and learning work
5) Adaptation of diagnostic information to the needs of
individual students
6) Independence ( supported independence) in student
work.
f. The individual must have demonstrated the capacity to
have a sustained colleague relationship with students;
that is to say, the individual must have demonstrated
that he has chosen his own behaviors so that they
have been humane and supportive of individual students
in accordance with human growth and development
considerations. (Evidence of assessment by Chairman
is principal basis for judgement. )
g. The individual must have demonstrated that he has
arranged teaching and learning activity in such a manner
that his students have been structured into purposeful
learning behavior "beyond the box, " "beyond the box"
meaning principally "outside of the college campus, "
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and secondarily outside the classroom but inside the
campus.
The individual must have demonstrated by his
actions that he has structured situations calculated
to help students to have three-dimensional contact with
and in the characteristic public social institutions
(economic, governmental, health, labor, etc. ) of
the society, and with individual representatives of
same in order to reduce the alienation caused by
ignorance of such social functions and institutions
and by non-participation or lack of three-dimensional
contact with them. (Note: Paragraph g. shall be
measured on the basis of evidence provided by the
Instructional Supervisor concerned. )
h. The individual must have demonstrated by his acts
that he understands the model of the open society
and the model of the free and responsible individual,
and that he has designed teaching and learning toward
the following ends:
a) That the student be helped to have or develop
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b) That the student have appropriate practice in
the method of inquiry in social and non-social
phenomena,
c) That the student has practice in the values of
the open societal model, the model of the free
and responsible individual, and has practice
in "prepared-for" civilized debate and discussion
of controversial issues (as distinguished from
mere exchange of unreflected opinion)
d) That the student learn that open-ended mutually -
supportive behavior is the chief social end of
a democratic culture.
PROCEDURE FOE RECOMMENDING TENURE
A. The President will recommend tenure for a member of the faculty
only if he is satisfied, by persuasive evidence, that the person
has performed acceptably the minimum requirements set forth
herein and'* in other 'expectations communicated in other official
documents, and expectations that flow from the general theory
of the College.
It shall be the responsibility of the Dean of Instruction to
provide the necessary information to place the President in the
position to make the judgement in each individual case as to
whether the individual shall be recommended for tenure.
The objective evidence which the
the President in each case shall
1. The individuals own tenure file; the individual's personnel
folder, such folder to include, among other things, all
Instructor Evaluation forms executed after October 1969,
that have such evaluation form to be geared directly iO
the position description for Instructor and/or to this present
document.
2. Instructor and/or student documents prepared by the individual
alone or in significant cooperation with others.
3 > Objective evidence that the individual has met the criteria
outlined above, where there can be objective evidence.
4. The recommendation of the Dean of Instruction that the
individual be recommended for tenure.
5. The above materials and recommendation shall be in the
hands of the President at least 90 days prior to the date
that the individual shall become eligible for tenure.
Dean of Instruction snail pr^v-d *
include:
