1. Purpose. The committee on administrative officers is responsible to the faculty senate and other university bodies and offices for ensuring that the search procedures for major academic administrative officers described herein are followed so that each and every vacancy is appropriately filled to ensure proper university operation.
2. Participation of the committee on administrative officers.
   1. Each search committee is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality of its proceedings.

1. Purpose. All tenure-track faculty members hold probationary appointments for one year, subject to annual renewal. Except where indicated n this paragraph (A), the total period of full-time tenure-track employment at the university prior to continuous tenure will not exceed six years. Faculty members with probationary appointments in the tenure track will be reviewed annually until the academic year in which they are considered for tenure.

(A)       The university has established distinguished academic ranks to recognize university faculty members for outstanding achievement and excellence in teaching, scholarly or creative activity and/or service.  Distinguished academic ranks are designed to recognize the university's best faculty members and to recruit outstanding faculty members from outside the university.

1. Policy statement. The probationary period for faculty members who hold a full-time tenure-track appointment at Kent state university is governed by policies on reappointment and tenure developed by the faculty senate professional standards committee and approved by the faculty senate and board of trustees. From time to time, personal and/or family circumstances arise such that a probationary faculty member may need to request that their probationary period be extended.

1. Preamble.
   1. The authority, which exists on the campus of Kent state university, is the authority of the state of Ohio delegated by law to the board of trustees of the university and through them to such agencies, as they deem proper.

1. Purpose. The university recognizes an obligation to see that all employees receive their payroll checks on their respective payroll dates.
2. Procedures.
   1. Advance payroll check request. The university will also accommodate those individuals desiring paychecks prior to the payroll date if they are planning upon traveling out of the area because of university business or vacations, and if they will be away from the university on the payroll date.

1. Purpose.

1. Eligibility.
   1. All regular, full-time tenured members of the faculty at the rank of assistant professor or higher who are in their seventh year of regular tenure-track appointment by the university are eligible to apply for a faculty professional improvement leave.

1. Students who withdraw from the university any time during a term will receive a mark of "W."
2. Final examination week is not considered part of the academic term for purposes of withdrawal.
3. Students who wish to withdraw from the university must report to the office of their academic dean.
4. Academic deans or their designees will interview students applying for university withdrawal and will forward a completed "Exit Application" to the registrar's office.
5. Any variation from this rule requires approval by the appropriate academic

1. (There are occasions when efficiency, productivity and fairness can best be served by appointing a uniquely qualified individual to a vacant position.