The policy for termination of faculty due to financial exigency is to be implemented only after the Board has officially declared a state of financial exigency.
- Before initiating an investigation of the academic program, the vice president for Academic Administration and the Undergraduate Council shall establish a set of criteria on which to base a study of how to reduce the academic program.
- The vice president for Academic Administration, after consulting with the Academic Affairs Committee and/or a program review committee, determines, in counsel with the president, in which disciplines program terminations are necessary.
- The vice president for Academic Administration consults with each school dean/ department chair and the members of each school/department in which the vice president determines personnel terminations are necessary.
- In consultation with the vice president for Academic Administration and with the school dean/department chair in which terminations are to occur, the president formulates final recommendations for personnel terminations to be presented to the Board.
- The president confers with individuals to be terminated in advance of official letters of intent to recommend their terminations.
- Notification of termination, appeals of terminations, and all agreements of termination are to follow stated policies in the current Employee Handbook.