Academic Policies
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Welcome — 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.
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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