III.F   Maximum Time in Non-tenure Ladder Ranks

With the exception of faculty in certain tracks in Medicine and Public Health, no one on the Yale faculty may be employed in the ranks of assistant professor and associate professor on term for longer than a total of ten years, plus any extensions as described below. In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in the Schools of Architecture, Divinity, and Forestry & Environmental Studies, that maximum is nine years. (See Section IV.J.) The maximum may be extended by up to a total of three years for time during which the faculty member:

(a) has taken a leave of absence for public service or military service,

(b) has taken an approved Child Rearing Leave or a Caregiver's Leave of at least six weeks, or

(c) has been granted an extension in his or her term of appointment in connection with child rearing or as a result of a short-term medical disability of at least six weeks. (See Section XVII.D.)

Extensions granted for any combination of these reasons are subject to a maximum of three additional years in the non-tenure ladder ranks.

An extension may also be allowed, on a pro-rata basis and subject to the same three-year limit on extensions, for time during which the faculty member holds a part-time ladder appointment at Yale. (For example, a person working half-time over the course of two academic years would be entitled to a one-year extension of the nine or ten-year maximum.)

In the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, the ten-year maximum in the Traditional Track includes years of appointment to the ladder ranks at Yale and up to three years served in the ladder ranks at other institutions.

With the exception of faculty in certain tracks in Medicine and Public Health, no one on the Yale faculty may be employed in the ranks of assistant professor and associate professor on term for longer than a total of ten years, plus any extensions as described below. In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in the Schools of Architecture, Divinity, and Forestry & Environmental Studies, that maximum is nine years. (See Section IV.J.) The maximum may be extended by up to a total of three years for time during which the faculty member:

(a) has taken a leave of absence for public service or military service,

(b) has taken an approved Child Rearing Leave or a Caregiver's Leave of at least six weeks, or

(c) has been granted an extension in his or her term of appointment in connection with child rearing or as a result of a short-term medical disability of at least six weeks. (See Section XVII.D.)

Extensions granted for any combination of these reasons are subject to a maximum of three additional years in the non-tenure ladder ranks.

An extension may also be allowed, on a pro-rata basis and subject to the same three-year limit on extensions, for time during which the faculty member holds a part-time ladder appointment at Yale. (For example, a person working half-time over the course of two academic years would be entitled to a one-year extension of the nine or ten-year maximum.)

In the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, the ten-year maximum in the Traditional Track includes years of appointment to the ladder ranks at Yale and up to three years served in the ladder ranks at other institutions.