Retention, Tenure, and Promotion

Retention, Tenure and Promotion

Faculty may be hired at CSUF as part-time lecturers, full-time lecturers (hired on an emergency basis or hired after a nationwide search on a renewable basis with the possible designation of distinguished visiting lecturer), or tenure-track (probationary) faculty.

Normally, a probationary faculty member is given a two-year initial appointment. Probationary faculty are subject to reviews before they are re-appointed to third, fourth, fifth or sixth probationary years or granted tenure. Appointment to probationary status implies that a faculty member will eventually be granted tenure if his or her performance meets the standards in Section IV of this document and of his or her approved Departmental Personnel Standards.

Tenure-track faculty are considered probationary faculty until they are awarded tenure or terminated.