University Archives: RG 5 THE FACULTY S7    Faculty handbooks

FILE  1	Faculty Handbooks 1942(?) - 1963
	Faculty handbooks were published at least as early as 1942. The first copy held in the Archives is for 1943, and is entitled Faculty Bible, Revised Edition March 1, 1943: Official Information for Members of the Teaching Staff. A second revision was dated September 1, 1946. The handbooks were prepared as authoritative compilations of the rights and privileges that all the members of the faculty enjoyed and of the rules and regulations under which the College operated. Subjects included were: tenure, sabbatic leave, use of campus facilities, confidentiality, absences, tardiness, meetings, teaching and office hours, organization of divisions, grading, course structure, administration, and faculty welfare. After 1946, the title was changed to Faculty Handbook. The earliest issue in Archives is for January 1, 1950. Also in the collection are copies revised for September 1 of 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1963. Included in these copies are sections on qualifications for professional rank, form of contract, legal holidays, together with a copy of the Constitution of the Faculty Association, in addition to the subjects in the handbooks above.
FILE 2	Faculty Handbooks 1965-1969
	In the fall of 1965, the Senate charged the Welfare Committee with the responsibility of developing a new faculty handbook. A May 1966 report from the Welfare Committee discusses the procedures followed including writing to numerous other institutions of higher education for their policies, and lists the names of members of the committee.  Richard Perchlik was chair. The report includes a draft of "Faculty Rights and Terms of Employment"; this was approved by the Faculty Senate on October 10, 1966. Included in this section are provisions on academic freedom, tenure, dismissal of tenured faculty, faculty grievances, appointments, promotions, leaves, faculty loads, and administrative appointments. Three years later, the Welfare Committee prepared a working paper on the same subject, dated February 24, 1969. On May 19, 1969, the Faculty Welfare Committee presented a preliminary draft of another version of the above section. The Committee, chaired by Ken Hogan, noted that its intent was to reconcile the handbook with the Personnel Regulations and Policies of the Board of Trustees. On June 23, a Part II of the Report was presented, including sections on faculty appointments, administrative appointments and promotions.
FILE 3	CSC Faculty Policies and Regulations 1969
	On July 14, 1969, the Faculty Senate approved and adopted a new document entitled CSC Faculty Policies and Regulations ( formerly the Faculty Handbook ). The twelve sections listed in the Table of Contents are as follows:
	1. Faculty appointments           2. Academic appointments           3. Academic freedom           4. Professional ethics and responsibility           5. Tenure           6. Promotion           7. Leaves of absence           8. Faculty load           9. Research and related activities        10. Retirement and emeritus status        11. Dismissal of tenured faculty        12. General faculty grievances
	A statement indicated that, "The following regulations, applying to the faculty of Colorado State College, conform to the Personnel Regulations and Policies adopted by the Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado. Portions appearing in quotation marks are quoted from that document."
FILE 4	Documentation for Faculty Handbook 1977
	Further efforts were made to update the handbook, as in November 1977 a binder was printed entitled "Documentation for Faculty Handbook." Copies include a number of documents: the 1975 Staffing Formula from Academic Services, the Personnel Regulations and Policies of the Trustees revised for September 1977, the policy on academic freedom of students revised through May 1975, the Administrative Handbook revised as of September 1976, a code of teaching responsibility, and the Constitution of the Faculty, dated May 1977.
FILE 5	Faculty Handbooks 1977-78 and 1978-79
	In November 1977, a new handbook was published, having been prepared by the office of the Vice President for Academic Administration. President Bond stated in an introductory note that the handbook was the first attempt to combine and synthesize personnel and administrative policies into one useable document for faculty use. It was then anticipated that a revision would be made in the following year, as was done, and that in the future, handbooks would be published every other year. No revision appears to have been published after the one for 1978-1979. A preface also stated that the handbook was not a substitute for the Administrative Handbook or the Personnel Regulations and Policies documents. The new handbooks have tables of contents three pages long, and these refer not only to faculty conditions of employment but also to a large number of other items such as housing, student records, international education and a variety of services such as the computer center and parking services.