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The principal aims of the Department of Economics are to preserve, increase, and transmit knowledge and understanding of Economics. In hiring, reappointing and promoting fixed-term faculty, the Department seeks to maintain its high standards of scholarship and teaching. It also encourages service to the Department, the University, the professional community, the state, the nation and the world; as appropriate, it also encourages engagement with groups outside academia.

This document establishes the formal policies and procedures governing academic tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill, covering the conditions under which tenure is granted, the faculty ranks to which it applies, the grounds and processes for suspension, demotion, discharge, nonreappointment, and termination. It also defines faculty rights to hearings, administrative review, and appeals to the Board of Trustees, and affirms protections for academic freedom.

This document outlines the eligibility criteria and procedural steps for reviewing and promoting a Teaching Associate Professor to the rank of Teaching Professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences (APS). Its purpose is to define required qualifications, evidence, committee processes, and voting procedures for promotion decisions.

Department committees are renewed each fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) and are tasked with a set of directives established by departmental leadership and faculty. This policy establishes how those committees are established and their roles within the College of Arts and Sciences Applied Physical Sciences.

This policy defines the paid and unpaid leave entitlements available to eligible UNC-Chapel Hill faculty for serious illness, major disability, and parental purposes, covering both nine-month and twelve-month appointees. It also establishes the associated notice requirements, approval procedures, and appeal process, and clarifies how these leaves interact with federal Family and Medical Leave Act protections and other employment matters such as tenure review timing and benefits.