Yale University Faculty Handbook

III.E Appointments and Terms of Employment

No one appointed to a ladder faculty position at Yale may simultaneously hold a tenure or tenure-track position elsewhere. [2] Various kinds of other appointments at other institutions may be appropriate, as long as they are disclosed and do not create a conflict of interest or conflict of commitment. (See Section XX.E.) No member of the faculty at any rank employed full-time at Yale may hold a teaching position, whether full-time or part-time, even a visiting one, at another institution during the academic year without special permission from the Provost, and in such cases additional compensation is not permitted. With prior approval from the Provost, a faculty member may accept a temporary visiting appointment at another institution while on an unpaid leave of absence from Yale.

Appointments to the faculty are to a given rank and generally for a specified period of time ranging from one semester to five years. The only exceptions are (i) appointments to tenure positions and, in certain professional schools, appointments to continuing professorial ranks, neither of which are limited as to time; and (ii) appointments to the rank of associate professor on term in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which are made for a term equal to the faculty member's remaining eligible time in the nontenure ranks, up to seven years (see Section IV.J.1). Many term appointments are renewable, though the time permitted in non-tenure ladder ranks is generally limited. Most appointments carry with them an understanding of a full-time level of compensated effort, i.e., full-time employment, either for the academic year or the full calendar year. However, the level of compensated effort in appointments other than tenure appointments may be less than full-time and may vary from year to year. Tenure appointments of less than full-time are permitted only in exceptional circumstances and for a limited duration of time. Thus it is important to distinguish between the level and term of appointment and the understanding with respect to the fraction and duration of employment.

^[2] Exceptions may be made, with the approval of the Corporation, to enable ladder faculty in a clinical specialty in the School of Medicine to hold tenure-track appointments in a cooperating academic institution, where there is a formal inter-institutional arrangement with such institution and where the clinical opportunity is not sufficient at Yale alone.

With the exception of Appointments to the faculty are to a given rank and generally for a specified period of time ranging from one semester to five years. The only exceptions are (i) appointments to tenure positions and, in certain professional schools, appointments to continuing professorial ranks, neither of which are limited as to time; and (ii) appointments to the faculty are to a given rank for a specified period of time, ranging from one semester to five years. rank of associate professor on term in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which are made for a term equal to the faculty member's remaining eligible time in the nontenure ranks, up to seven years (see Section IV.J.1). Many term appointments are renewable, though the time permitted in non-tenure ladder ranks is generally limited. Most appointments carry with them an understanding of a full-time level of compensated effort, i.e., full-time employment, either for the nine-month academic year or the full calendar year. However, the level of compensated effort in appointments other than tenure appointments may be less than full-time and may vary from year to year. Tenure appointments of less than full-time are permitted only in exceptional circumstances and for a limited duration of time. Thus it is important to distinguish between the level and term of appointment and the understanding with respect to the fraction and duration of employment.

History of this Section:

The original text dates from the January 20, 2010 version of the Faculty Handbook.

This section was revised on February 25, 2012. (View changes from prior version)