The purpose of this policy is to guide academic and administrative faculty applications for emeritus status. Emeritus status is granted to encourage continued association with the university for the purposes of university service, academic instruction, and scholarly investigation.

The Entrepreneurial Leave Policy has been developed to establish policy and procedures for academic and administrative faculty interested in applying for entrepreneurial leave under the authority granted by the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE).

This policy is intended to provide faculty with a greater degree of career flexibility, in either advancing or delaying, when appropriate and justified, the tenure review. It is also intended to provide deans and chairs, when hiring academic faculty, with greater clarity and support in explaining to potential hires the flexibility that will be available in either advancing or delaying, when appropriate and justified, the tenure review. In this respect, it is intended to update UNLV's existing "early tenure" policy and bring it into conformity with national best practices for research…

The purpose of this policy is to establish minimum standards for course evaluations by students and maintain the reliability, validity, legitimacy, and anonymity of the evaluation instruments. In many departments, schools, and on its student evaluations may be the sole measure of teaching effectiveness that is utilized. In those units, it is critical that the evaluations be reliable indicators of teaching ability.

Faculty, ranging from part-time and contingent instructors to tenured and tenure-track faculty, perform an essential function at UNLV: instruction, regardless of mode of instruction (i.e., in person, hybrid, online). As such, it is imperative to have university-wide standards for the credentials of all faculty, including part-time and contingent instructors who are sensitive to unit-level practices. The purpose of this policy is to require units to set field-specific minimum criteria for all part-time and contingent faculty teaching credit-bearing, undergraduate courses at UNLV, as is…

UNLV affirms its absolute commitment to the principle that the selection of textbooks and other classroom materials is the right and responsibility of the faculty member assigned to teach each particular course.

The UNLV Workload Assignment Policy and Guidelines shall be consistent with the academic mission of the University as represented by its Mission Statement. For the current UNLV Mission Statement, see unlv.edu/about/mission.

The goals from the University’s Strategic Plan, inasmuch as they reflect activities that are important to the University’s purpose, shall guide and inform the UNLV Workload Assignment Policy and Guidelines. For the current Strategic Plan, see the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Academic Master Plan at…