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Chapter 2: The University Faculty and Its Organization
Chapter 3: Faculty Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure
Chapter 4: Professional Affairs of the Faculty
Chapter 5: Research - Organizational Structure for Sponsored Projects and Research Related Policies
Chapter 6: Faculty Responsibilities with Respect to Students
Chapter 7: University Libraries
Appendix A: Governing Documents
- University’s Mission Statement
- Indenture of Trust
- Amended and Restated Charter of Duke University
- Bylaws of the University
Appendix B: Bylaws of the University Faculty
- Bylaws of the Academic Council
Appendix C: Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure
- Faculty Participation in the Appointment and Retention of Administrators
- Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Procedures for Appointment, Reappointments and Promotions for Regular, Non-Tenure Track Faculty
- Bylaws of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Bylaws of the Arts and Sciences Council
- Procedures for Appointments, Reappointments, Promotions and Tenure in the Arts and Sciences
- Arts and Sciences Accelerated Sabbatical Policy
Appendix E: Pratt School of Engineering
- Bylaws of the Faculty
- Procedures for Faculty Recruitment, Promotion, and Tenure
Appendix F: Divinity School Bylaws
- Articles of Organization
- Bylaws of the Faculty
- Policies and Procedures
Appendix G: Nicholas School of the Environment
- Faculty Bylaws
Appendix H: Fuqua School of Business
- Faculty Evaluation, Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure: Criteria and Procedures
- Faculty Bylaws
- Procedures for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure
Appendix J: Basic Sciences School of Medicine
- Bylaws of the Basic Sciences Faculty Steering Committee
- Procedures and Criteria for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure
- Materials to be Submitted by the Department in Support of Nominations for Tenured Appointments and Promotions
Appendix K: School of Nursing Faculty Governance Association Bylaws
Appendix L: Clinical Sciences School of Medicine
- Bylaws of the Clinical Sciences Faculty Council on Academic Affairs
- APT Process for Tenure Track Faculty with Primary Appointments in Clinical Departments
Appendix M: Graduate School Bylaws
Appendix N: Ombuds and Faculty Hearing Committee
Appendix O: Financial Conflict of Interest Policy
- Duke University Faculty Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form
- Institutional Conflict of Interest in Research Policy
- Institutional Conflict of Interest in Research Implementation
Appendix P: Policies Related to Research
- Protecting Human Subjects in Nonmedical Research
- Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Technology Transfer
- Interpretation of the Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Technology Transfer Reaffirming the Rights of Undergraduate Students
- Duke University Policy on Intellectual Property Rights
- Interpretations of the Policy on Intellectual Property Rights as it Relates to Online Courseware
- Duke University Copyright Guidelines for Electronic Course Content
- Checklist for Fair Use Analysis
- Patent Agreement
- University-Industry Guidelines
- Policy on Research Records: Sharing, Retention and Ownership
- Duke University Policy and Procedures Governing Misconduct in Research
- Faculty Communication to External Sponsors on Administrative Issues
- Guidelines for Authorship and Authorship Dispute Resolution
- Principal Investigator Status
- Policy on Open Access to Research
Appendix Q: University Committees
Appendix R: Student Records Policy
Appendix S: Use of University Lands and Facilities
Appendix T: Sanford School of Public Policy
- Bylaws of the Sanford School of Public Policy
Appendix V: Pickets, Protests, and Demonstrations
Appendix X: The Duke Community Standard
Appendix Y: Steps in the Process of Approving New Academic Degrees and Changing the Name of a Unit
Appendix Z: Policy on Consensual Romantic or Sexual Relationships Between Faculty and Students