Appointment with Tenure of Title

Certain officers of instruction in the Faculties of Dental and Oral Surgery, Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health who are not eligible for tenure may nonetheless receive tenure of title. While those appointments are without stated term, they do not provide a guarantee of salary from the University.

Officers with unmodified titles indicating appointment in an affiliated hospital or institute may be granted tenure of title, but only if the affiliated hospital or institute gives a commitment to pay at least half of the individual's salary through the University for an indefinite period of appointment. Also eligible are officers in whose titles the modifier "clinical" applies to the department or discipline (e.g., professor of clinical medicine). Faculty with "clinical" as a prefix to their titles (e.g., clinical professor of medicine) may not receive tenure of title, nor may faculty holding appointments as professor or associate professor at <affiliated hospital or institute>.

The appointments of officers with tenure of title may be involuntarily terminated for only a limited number of reasons. These include the discontinuation of an academic department and cause (see "Termination," below). In addition, those who hold University appointments as members of an affiliated hospital or institute may lose their appointments if the affiliation agreement comes to an end or if they cease to be connected with the hospital or institute.

Officers eligible for tenure of title are considered first by their department or division, then by their School, and then, if nominated, by the Committee on Appointments and Promotions of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Officers who hold appointments with unmodified titles in affiliated hospitals and institutes, but not those with clinical titles, are also evaluated according to the criteria and procedures used in reviews for tenure (see "Appointment to Tenure," above). In the Faculty of Medicine, all nominations for tenure of title are reviewed by the Faculty Council before they are proposed to the Trustees for appointment without stated term.