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Tip Sheets

  • Role of FASA
  • Named or Endowed Chair and Professor Titles, Adding to Faculty HR Record
  • Sabbatical Review and Approval Process
  • Extending the Tenure Clock Request Process
  • Hiring with Tenure - Provost Approval Process
  • Emeritum Request Process
  • Spousal and Partner Hires
  • Designation B Process
  • Classifying Positions as Academic Specialists
  • FASA Guidance for Responding to MSU Budget Reductions
  • Extending the Continuing Clock Request Process
  • Considerations for Consulting and Outside Work for Academic Specialists
  • Best Practices for Academic Unit Leaders Conducting Annual Reviews
  • Navigating Retirement from a Faculty Position
  • Writing a Strong Reflective Essay

Resources

  • Position Differentiation - Guidelines for Assistant and Associate Dean Positions
  • The Tenure Clock Timeline - A Reference Guide for Assistant Professors

Forms

  • Conflict of Commitment Form
  • Emeritum Request
  • Faculty Overload Request
  • Offering a Tenured Appointment, Request for Provost's Approval
  • Salary Support (1/3) for Partner Hire, Request for Approval

Unionization Resources

  • Guidance for MSU Administrators: New Bargaining Representative for Tenure System Faculty and Librarians in the Continuing System
  • Description of Bargaining Unit
    • Communications on UTSF Administrative Exclusions (July 2026)
    • Checklist for Determining Whether Secondary Position Could be Excluded From the UTSF
    • Request to Review Potential Management Position Excluded from the UTSF (Microsoft Form)
    • Administrative Exclusion – Memo Template (only for use with FASA approval)
    • Adding Secondary UTSF-Excluded Titles to Faculty Records in the HR/Payroll System

Executive Orders

  • FAQs: Additional Guidance on Recent Executive Orders and the Impact to Academic Colleges, Departments, and Units

Budget Reduction Guidance

  • FASA Guidance: Reduction in Force (June 2025)
    • Reduction in Force: for FASA Review (Microsoft Form)
      • Dean's Review/Approval Template
  • FASA Guidance: Responding to MSU Budget Reductions (May 2025)

Conflict of Commitment Resources

  • Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment Policy
  • Guidance for Chairpersons and Supervisors on Reviewing Outside Activity Requests
  • Frequently Asked Questions on New Conflict of Commitment Policy
  • Crosswalk of Changes - Outside Work for Pay Policy