Academic & Faculty Affairs Policies

Policy Number:1025

Status:Approved

Academic Program Discontinuance

Regent Policy 4.B requires that each campus have a process for the discontinuance of academic units and degree programs consistent with the CU System Administrative Policy Statement. This policy defines that process.

Keywords: eliminate terminate termination

Policy Number:1013

Status:Approved

Administrator’s Salary on Return to the Faculty

This policy outlines the process for an administrator returning to a faculty or other position to receive compensation commensurate with actual duties and responsibilities and consistent with existing University rules, policies and agreements.

Keywords: expertise prior experience standing

Policy Number:1007

Status:Approved

Compensation Principles for Promotion and Tenure - CU Denver

The purpose of this policy is to establish the compensation principles and minimum amounts for recognizing these milestones in a faculty member’s career.

Keywords: minimum salary increments

Policy Number:1030

Status:Approved

Courses Taught in Faculty Homes and Other Private Residences

The purpose of this policy is to outline requirements to track, justify and manage the risks of off-campus course offerings at the homes of faculty.

Keywords: home off-campus off-site

Policy Number:1001

Status:Approved

Creating New or Renaming Existing Academic Units and Departments, and Renaming Degree Programs

This campus policy was developed in accordance with the requirement that each campus develop processes for creating and naming Academic Programs as outlined in Regent Policy 4.B.3 and APS 1041.

1001s - Approval Requirements for New Degree and New Certificates

Keywords: Establish New Program

Policy Number:1000

Status:Approved

Degree Program Review

This Policy responds to APS 1019 and sets a process for program review across the campuses.

Keywords: Academic external periodic process PRP

Policy Number:1012

Status:Approved

Differentiated Annual Workloads - CU Denver

The intent of this policy is to provide a framework for academic units to grant differentiated workloads to faculty.

Keywords: workload assignment

Policy Number:1010

Status:Approved

Distinguished Professorships

This policy sets forth procedures for nominating candidates at University of Colorado Denver and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus for consideration for designation as distinguished professors.

Keywords: award faculty honors nomination

Policy Number:1037

Status:Approved

Domestic Travel Policy for Faculty and Staff (Travel Involving Students or Others)

This policy provides guidance and standards for faculty and staff traveling domestically under the auspice of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus (the “University”) for the purpose of university service-related trips, study, data gathering, field experiments, and other forms of research, and recognizes two types of campus- related domestic travel.

Keywords: domestic non-university off-campus overnight travel

Policy Number:1040

Status:Approved

Establishment of Centers and Institutes

The purpose of this policy is to set forth procedures for the establishment and approval of Centers and to provide for the renaming of existing organizations, if appropriate, as determined by campus administrations.

Keywords: approval establishing organizations research

Policy Number:1026

Status:Approved

Evaluating Qualifications of Instructional Faculty

This policy creates a campus-wide standard and sets common expectations for the appointment of all instructional faculty hired at the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and also meets the accreditation standards adopted by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in June 2015.

Keywords: appointments employment expectations Experience HLC qualifications

Policy Number:1006

Status:Approved

Faculty Compensation - CU Denver

This policy establishes process and authority for various types of faculty compensation as allowed by Regents laws and policies, university administrative and fiscal policies, and federal regulations for grants and contracts.

Keywords: additional pay faculty salaries remuneration salary grievance salary setting process

Policy Number:1005

Status:Approved

Faculty Compensation CU Anschutz

The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines for faculty compensation at CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Keywords: additional remuneration grievance pay salaries salary

Policy Number:1011

Status:Approved

Faculty Emeritus/Emerita Designation

This policy defines the process for granting emeritus/emerita status to a faculty member with the rank of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Senior Instructor, or Instructor.

Keywords: retain title retirement special privileges

Policy Number:1008

Status:Approved

Faculty Transfers between Departments, Schools and Colleges of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus

This policy is intended to guide the process for faculty transfer from one unit of the University of Colorado Denver to another unit within the University of Colorado Denver. It applies to all faculty with an appointment of .50 percent effort or greater.

Keywords: checklist MOU move retain unit

Policy Number:1017

Status:Approved

Fall and Spring Semester Breaks - CU Denver

This policy requires the CU Denver academic calendar to include a week-long Fall Break during the week in November in which Thanksgiving falls. In both the Fall and Spring Breaks, the University is open but classes do not meet.

Keywords: Holiday Schedule time off

Policy Number:1021

Status:Approved

Hire with Tenure

The purpose of this policy is to outline the requirements for tenure faculty appointments and the processes for appointment, reappointment, and promotion.

Keywords: faculty hires with tenure RTP review

Policy Number:1002

Status:Approved

Hiring Process for Full-Time Faculty

This policy outlines the hiring process of all full-time faculty job titles in the 1100, 1200, 1300, and 1400 job code series, excluding 1309 and 1310 (Professional Research Assistants) in compliance with the institution’s Affirmative Action Program and state law.

Keywords: onboarding on-boarding

Policy Number:1019

Status:Approved

Instructional, Research, and Clinical Faculty Appointments

The purpose of this policy is to outline the general requirements for Instructional, Research, and Clinical (IRC) faculty appointments and the processes for appointment, reappointment, and promotion.

Keywords: CTT non-tenure track NTT

Policy Number:1035

Status:Approved

International Travel Policy for Official University Business

This policy provides guidance for official university business travel under the auspices of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus, non-employee travel sponsored by the university, and travel by employees that is sponsored by another organization.

Keywords: abroad compliance countries foreign travelers

Policy Number:1027

Status:Approved

Multi-Year Contracts for Instructional, Research, and Clinical Faculty with Teaching Responsibilities or Librarian Appointments

This policy outlines a selection and approval process for multi-year contracts for both teaching faculty and librarians.

Keywords: contract terms library faculty probationary

Policy Number:1015

Status:Approved

New Faculty Orientation

This policy explains the obligation of The University of Colorado Denver to provide an orientation to the university and to introduce its policies and procedures for new faculty.

Keywords: member requirements

Policy Number:1028

Status:Approved

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Performance Review

This policy sets forth the requirements for performance review processes for all non-tenure track faculty at CU Denver and CU Anschutz.

Keywords: annual clinical evaluation Lecturer periodic

Policy Number:1036

Status:Approved

Oversight of University-Related International Travel

This policy outlines the oversight responsibility of the Office of International Affairs for all university-related international travel undertaken by University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus faculty, students, staff, and non-university-affiliated travelers accompanying university international travelers.

Keywords: international risk office of international affairs review travel activities travelers

Policy Number:1050

Status:Approved

Post Tenure Review

As is required by APS 1022, this policy describes the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus procedures for peer evaluation during PTR and for appeals of the PTR evaluation.

Keywords: accountability development fund award peer review PIA professional improvement agreement

Policy Number:1023

Status:Approved

Protected Class Data

This policy outlines the procedures to ensure the privacy of employees and students regarding voluntary disclosures for reporting purposes.

Keywords: data disclosure privacy

Policy Number:1049A

Status:Approved

Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Review - CU Anschutz

This policy outlines the procedures of evaluations of tenure track faculty at all levels for comprehensive reappointment review and for tenure and promotion at CU Anschutz in accordance with the University of Colorado’s APS 1022, Standards, Processes, and Procedures for Comprehensive Review, Tenure, Post-Tenure Review and Promotion.

Keywords: advisory committee appointment length candidate nomination external review

Policy Number:1004

Status:Approved

Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Review - CU Denver

This policy outlines the procedures of evaluations of tenure track faculty at all levels for comprehensive reappointment review and for tenure and promotion at CU Denver in accordance with the University of Colorado’s APS 1022, Standards, Processes, and Procedures for Comprehensive Review, Tenure, Post-Tenure Review and Promotion.

Keywords: advisory committee appointment length candidate nomination external review

Policy Number:1003

Status:Approved

Research and Creative Work Support - CU Denver

This policy lays out principles for the distribution of certain University funds to support faculty research and scholarly/creative activities.

Keywords: Faculty support

Policy Number:1009A

Status:Approved

Research Postdoctoral Fellows/Trainees - CU Anschutz

This policy outlines definitions and procedures for Research Postdoctoral Fellows/Trainees (also sometimes called postdocs, postdoctoral scholars, or “regular fellows,”) who constitute one of the mainstays of the research enterprise at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Keywords: ​trainees graduate school

Policy Number:1009D

Status:Approved

Research Postdoctoral Fellows/Trainees - CU Denver

This policy outlines definitions and procedures for Research Postdoctoral Fellows/Trainees (also sometimes called postdocs, postdoctoral scholars, or “regular fellows,”) who constitute one of the mainstays of the research enterprise at CU Denver.

Keywords: ​trainees graduate school

Policy Number:1020

Status:Approved

Roles and Responsibilities of Department Chairs

This policy describes the responsibilities, appointment procedures, terms of appointment, evaluation, orientation, and compensation for chairs of academic departments within a School or College. 

Keywords: Academic Chairs Department Administrator Unit Leadership

Policy Number:1029

Status:Approved

Standards for Notice of Non-Renewal for Faculty Other Than Those with Tenured or at-will Appointments

The purpose of this policy is to set the parameters for providing notice of non-renewal for faculty holding other than tenured or at-will appointments at the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus.

Keywords: Non-reappointment non-tenured

Policy Number:1031

Status:Under Review

Syllabus - CU Denver

This policy outlines the requirements for a course syllabus in order for it to be an essential component of good teaching, student learning, and outcomes assessment as well as a guide used in the resolution of conflicts that may arise between students and their instructors.

Keywords: courses syllabi template