Tenure-System Faculty

MSU tenure-system faculty create, invent, produce, discover, express, and reveal elements about ourselves, our world, and our place in that world. Their work may examine the minutiae of a bacterial cell or the complex significance of an artistic performance. The nature of this work allows us to understand, contextualize, and improve the human condition, or may be abstracted from utility and exist solely as advanced knowledge. In the end, the diverse products of their work may be lauded by many or known by only a few, appreciated for their audacity or cited for their wisdom, and appear in books or papers, exhibitions, or productions.

Resources for Tenure-System Faculty

• MSU Faculty Handbook
• Time Table for Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Actions
• Typical Probationary Term Assistant Professor Diagram
• Form on Progress and Excellence (formerly Form D)
• Examples of Completed Form on Progress and Excellence by College (used with permission and redacted)
• Thriving as a Tenure-System Faculty Member
• Extending the Tenure Clock
• Sabbatical Leaves of Absence
• Office of Research and Innovation
• Research Development and Proposal Services