Academic Affairs Policies

The Faculty Workload Policy defines the criteria for a fair and equitable faculty workload.

The adoption of textbooks and other materials for courses at ULM are governed by this policy. Procedures for ordering textbooks and materials are also provided.

The Accelerated Bachelors-to-Masters Policy creates the conditions under which an accelerated bachelors-to-masters (ABM) program can be offered to students.

All faculty hired into tenure-track positions must serve a probationary period before being allowed to apply for tenure, as defined by the University System of Louisiana and the ULM Faculty Handbook. During this period, personal situations, such as the birth of a child, the need to take care of a family member, an extended illness, or military duty, might occur that require the faculty member to take extended leave from ULM. Other institutional situations, such as a pandemic, natural disaster, or fire, might occur that have a severe negative affect on the teaching and scholarship of a faculty member. In these situations, it is in the best interest of the faculty member and ULM to have a mechanism for suspending the clock on this probationary period until such time as teaching and research are able to resume in a normal fashion.

The purpose of this policy is to outline the process of appointing faculty across two or more units.

Faculty Emeritus recognition is reserved to honor, in retirement, faculty who have made distinguished professional contributions and have rendered significant academic service to the University.

The College Budget Authority PPM provides the dean of a college with the authority to rebudget collegiate funds during the fiscal year. The purpose of this PPM is to provide guidelines for the calculation, allocation, and use of the colleges unclassified employees attrition.

Division of Academic Affairs employees are responsible for reading policies and procedures relevant to their position and reading ULM, UL System, and Board of Regents policies and procedures. This is to be done by all new employees within 60 days of beginning employment and annually by current employees.

The purpose of this policy is to address the terms and conditions which governs the salary of a faculty member making the transition to a faculty administrator and vice versa.

The faculty handbook is designed as a guide for faculty. As a guide this handbook can be used as a first point of contact when a faculty member needs clarifications on policies, procedures and services. The faculty handbook is not a tome of all faculty information. Instead this handbook oftentimes acts only to point the faculty member to the needed information.

Archived copy of the 2010 Faculty Handbook approved on 3/2/2010.

Archived copy of the 2001 Faculty Handbook approved August 2001.

Archived copy of the 1988-89 Faculty Handbook approved August 1988.

Archived copy of the 1983-84 Faculty Handbook approved May 1983.

Archived copy of the 1977-1978 Faculty Handbook approved August 1977