Absence or Leave
Please click for the official FAU Attendance and Leave policy.
Documents available for download:
- Faculty Absence Notification - University Procedures [April 27, 2017]
- Faculty Absence Notification – University Form
- Paid Parental Leave - University Form (now available on Workday)
- Paid Parental Leave - University Procedures
Academic Qualifications for SACS
Document available for download:
Appointments and Positions
Documents available for download:
- Appointment and Tenure as Condition of Employment -- Provost Memorandum [February 17, 2017]
- Appointment of Affiliate Faculty -- Provost Memorandum [December 22, 2020]
- Appointment of Emeritus Faculty -- Provost Memorandum [March 28, 2022]
- Department Chair and Director Job Description -- Provost Memorandum [March 28, 2011]
- Faculty Transfers -- Provost Memorandum [August 17, 2015]
- Supervision of Academic Work by Relatives -- Provost Memorandum [August 17, 2015]
Assignments and Evaluations
Documents available for download:
- Faculty Assignments for Graduation Attendance — College Policy [April 9, 2007]
- Faculty Assignments for Large Sections Including LCVS — College Policy [September 2020]
- Faculty Assignments for Summer — Provost Memorandum [August 17, 2015]
- Faculty Evaluations — Conceptual Definitions for Rankings
- Faculty Evaluations — Provost Memorandum [June 12, 2015]
- Faculty Evaluations — Template for Chair Evaluation of Faculty
- Faculty Evaluations — Template for Faculty Activity Report
- Faculty Evaluations — University Regulation 5.002 [August 6, 2012]
- Faculty Evaluations for Eminent Scholars — Provost Memorandum [August 17, 2015]
- Florida Atlantic University Post-Tenure Review Policy [December 2023]
- Post-Tenure Review Evaluation within the College of Business [December 2023]
- Post-Tenure Review Criteria for School of Accounting [October 2024]
- Post-Tenure Review Criteria for Economics Department [February 2025]
- Post-Tenure Review Criteria for Finance Department [February 2025]
- Post-Tenure Review Criteria for ITOM Department [September 2024]
- Post-Tenure Review Criteria for Department of Management Programs Criteria [October 2024]
- Post-Tenure Review Criteria for Marketing Department [March 2025]
- Faculty Overload Assignments and Additional Compensation — Provost Memorandum [May 8, 2020]
Hiring
Documents available for download:
- Faculty Position Request Form [August 20, 2021]
- Faculty Search and Hiring Procedures — Provost Memorandum [August 2022]
- International Faculty Hiring Procedures — Notes [October 20, 2017]
Outside Employment
Documents available for download and use:
Promotion and Tenure
Documents available for download:
- Non-Tenure Track ePortfolio Guidelines for 2022-2023 – Provost Memorandum [March 2026]
- Non-Tenure Track Promotion Guidelines – College Policy [October 11, 2019]
- Non-Tenure Track Promotion Guidelines – Provost Memorandum [April 27, 2015]
- Promotion Form -- Cover Sheet for External Letters
- Promotion Form -- Progress Toward Promotion to Professor
- Promotion Form -- Progress Toward Tenure and Promotion
- Promotion Form -- Template for Curriculum Vitae
- Tenure and Promotion Criteria -- Provost Document [February 2022]
- Tenure and Promotion Criteria Principles -- Provost Document [February 2022]
- Tenure and Promotion Guidelines -- College Policy [January 2026]
- Tenure and Promotion ePortfolio Guidelines -- Provost Memorandum [March 2026]
- Tenure as a Condition of Employment -- Provost Memorandum [January 14, 2020]
- Third Year Reviews -- College Policy Adopted by Faculty Assembly [April 9, 2010]
- Third Year Reviews -- Provost Memorandum [March 2019]
Instructional Issues
Documents available for download:
- Class Meetings — Provost Memorandum [February 12, 2015]
- Course Syllabus — Template
- Course Syllabi — Provost Memorandum [September 17, 2019]
- Course Syllabi Certification — Provost Memorandum [April 19, 2016]
- Credit Hour Definition — Provost Memorandum [July 28, 2015]
- Distance Learning — Provost Memorandum [July 14, 2015]
- Expectations for Use of Canvas and Submission of Early Alerts — Provost Memorandum [September 27, 2021]
- Faculty Absence and Leave Forms — Provost Memorandum [April 27, 2017]
- Guidance on Student Recordings of Class Lectures — Provost Memorandum [July 13, 2021]
- Guidelines for Course Section Enrollments — Provost Memorandum [February 8, 2022]
- Office Hours — Provost Memorandum [April 27, 2015]
- Reading Days and Final Exam Days – University Faculty Handbook [September 5, 2018]
- Student Perception of Teaching (SPOT) Forms — Provost Memorandum [June 12, 2015]
- Textbook Affordability — Provost Memorandum [August 2, 2017]
- Textbook Affordability — Regulation 3.004 [November 16, 2016]
Research Issues
Documents available for download:
- Journal Submission Fee Reimbursement — College Policy [July 7, 2011]
- 2019 — Call for Applications for 2019-2020 Fellowships
- 2019 — College of Business Dean's Summer Research Grants
- Procedure for Determining the Acquisition of Research Database Licenses — April 2019
- Procedure for Submitting Applications for Primary Data Collection — April 2019
- Research Database Inventory [July 2022]
Student Issues
Documents available for download:
- Academic Integrity -- College Policy [April 12, 2011]
- Regulation 4.001 – Code of Academic Integrity [June 7, 2022]
- Access to Student Records -- Department of Education Presentation [December 7, 2011]
- Access to Student Records -- General Counsel Presentation [August 12, 2013]
- Access to Student Records -- Regulation 4.008 [March 11, 2014]
- Dismissal from Graduate Program [August 21, 2015]
- Posthumous Degrees -- Provost Memorandum [February 15, 2017]
- Religious Accommodations -- Provost Memorandum [August 21, 2015]
- Religious Accommodations -- Regulation 2.007 [August 6, 2012]
- Scholarships -- Expectations of Scholarship Committee Members
- Scholarships -- Process for Awarding Scholarships
- Student Absences -- Provost Memorandum [August 21, 2015]
- Regulation 4.002 – Student Academic Grievance Procedures for Grade Reviews [June 23, 2020]
- Student Progress -- Regulation 2.003 [November 8, 2006]