Academic Policies
Faculty Handbook 2024–2025
The Faculty Handbook provides basic information about the University and the resources, conditions of employment, benefits, and policies that are essential to the faculty experience.
faculty-handbook.provost.virginia.edu
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- Academic Approval and Signatory Authority for Academic Program Agreements
- Related: Guidelines for Developing Some Common Types of Academic Program Agreements
- Academic Faculty Members Appointed to Administrative Positions
- Academic Policies, Complete List
- Annual Performance Reviews
- Appointment of Faculty to Endowed Professorships
- Appointment of University Professors
- Appointment of Unpaid Faculty
- Appointment of Visiting Faculty and Visiting Scholars
- Appointment Types and Titles, Faculty
- Appointment, Annual Evaluation and Reappointment of Academic Deans
- Appointments of Foreign Faculty and Researchers
- Approval of Appointments and Reappointments of Senior School and University Administrators
- Awarding of Posthumous Degrees
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- Campaigning for and Serving in a Public Office
- Classified Research
- Communicating with Government Officials
- Computing Policies
- Confidentiality of Student Information
- Conflict of Interest, Faculty
- Consulting and Internal Overload
- Copyright Policy
- Criteria for Establishing Research-Only Courses
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- Determination and Assignation of Academic Credit
- Disciplinary Suspension or Termination of Academic Faculty, Policy on
- Discrimination Complaint Procedures
- Dissemination and Recording of Course Materials and Activities
- Drug-Free Workplace
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- Emeritus Faculty
- Employment Eligibility Verification (Completing Form I-9)
- Employment of Academic General Faculty Members (Tenure-Ineligible)
- Related: FAQs - General Faculty Policies
- Employment of Administrative or Professional General Faculty Members
- Employment of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
- Employment of Professional Research Staff
- Employment of Tenure-line Faculty
- Related: Memo on Tenure-Track Probationary Period Extensions Due to Covid-19
- Equal Opportunity Policy
- Establishing Academic Centers and Institutes
- Establishing Certificate Programs
- Ethics, University Code of
- Extending Offers of Employment to Faculty in Academic Areas
- Extensions to Time-to-Degree Limits for Graduate and Professional Students Who Experience Significant Life Events
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- Faculty Exchanges
- Related: Faculty Exchanges - Related Information
- Faculty Holding Appointments at Other Institutions or Organizations
- Faculty Qualifications
- Faculty Salaries and Bonuses
- Faculty Wage Employment
- Financial Aid to Non Degree Seeking Students
- Financial Reporting and Operations
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- General Faculty Policies (Tenure-Ineligible)
- Related: Employment of Academic General Faculty Members
- Related: Employment of Administrative or Professional General Faculty Members
- Grading Practices
- Graduate Assistantships
- Financial Childbirth Accommodations for Graduate Students on Assistantship
- Graduate Record
- Grievance Policy for Academic Faculty (Tenured, Tenure-Track, and Academic Non-Tenure-Track Faculty)
- Grievance Policy for Administrative or Professional General Faculty Members
- Guidance for Implementing Policy PROV-005: Recording of Class Sessions and Distribution of Course Materials
- Guidelines for Developing Some Common Types of Academic Program Agreements
- Guidelines for General Faculty Staffing Due to Financial Stringency
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- Leaves of Absence
- Related: Short Term Disability Leave for Faculty
- Related: Planning for Parental Leave
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- Parental Accommodation for Graduate Students on Assistantship
- Part-Time Employment of Retired Members of the Faculty
- Patent Policy
- Personnel Records, Maintaining Faculty
- Planning for Parental Leave: A Guide to Faculty Policies at the University of Virginia
- Policy Directory
- Political Activity
- Press and External Communications
- Preventing and Addressing Discrimination and Harassment
- Preventing and Addressing Retaliation
- Procedure for Reviewing Administrative or Professional General Faculty for the Expectation of Continued Employment (ECE)
- Related: Employment of Administrative or Professional General Faculty Members
- Professional Research Staff
- Professors of Practice
- Promotion and Tenure Policy (see Employment of Tenure-line Faculty)
- Provision of Moving and Relocation Assistance for Newly Hired Faculty or Staff
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- Religious Holidays, Academic Accommodations
- Reporting by University Employees of Disclosures Relating to the Policy on Sexual & Gender-Based Harassment & Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence & the Preventing & Addressing Discrimination & Harassment, & Preventing & Addressing Retaliation Policies
- Research Policies and Procedures
- Resignation and Retirement
- Restrictions on Certain Romantic or Sexual Relationships at the University
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- Safety of Students in Laboratories, Makerspaces, Shops, and Studios
- Salaries and Bonuses, Faculty
- Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence
- Solicitation of Grants and Contracts
- Solicitation/Acceptance of Gifts and Bequests
- Student Academic Suspension Grievance
- Student and Graduate Medical Education Trainee International Travel (formerly Student International Travel) — REVISED
- Student Enrollment
- Submission of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
- Substantive Change for Institutional Accreditation
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- Undergraduate Record
- University Faculty Salaries and Bonuses
- University Professors, Appointment of
- University Staff Employees, Medical Center Employees, and Classified Staff Engaged in Teaching
- University-Related Travel
- Use of the Rotunda
- Use of the University's Federally Registered Trademark
- Use of University Facilities or Property, and Limits on Direct Solicitation and Advertising
- Use of Working Time and University Equipment for Personal or Commercial Purposes