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(A)       The university has established distinguished academic ranks to recognize university faculty members for outstanding achievement and excellence in teaching, scholarly or creative activity and/or service.  Distinguished academic ranks are designed to recognize the university's best faculty members and to recruit outstanding faculty members from outside the university.

1. Policy statement. The probationary period for faculty members who hold a full-time tenure-track appointment at Kent state university is governed by policies on reappointment and tenure developed by the faculty senate professional standards committee and approved by the faculty senate and board of trustees. From time to time, personal and/or family circumstances arise such that a probationary faculty member may need to request that their probationary period be extended.

1. Preamble.
   1. The authority, which exists on the campus of Kent state university, is the authority of the state of Ohio delegated by law to the board of trustees of the university and through them to such agencies, as they deem proper.

1. Purpose. The university recognizes an obligation to see that all employees receive their payroll checks on their respective payroll dates.
2. Procedures.
   1. Advance payroll check request. The university will also accommodate those individuals desiring paychecks prior to the payroll date if they are planning upon traveling out of the area because of university business or vacations, and if they will be away from the university on the payroll date.

1. Purpose.

1. Eligibility.
   1. All regular, full-time tenured members of the faculty at the rank of assistant professor or higher who are in their seventh year of regular tenure-track appointment by the university are eligible to apply for a faculty professional improvement leave.

1. Students who withdraw from the university any time during a term will receive a mark of "W."
2. Final examination week is not considered part of the academic term for purposes of withdrawal.
3. Students who wish to withdraw from the university must report to the office of their academic dean.
4. Academic deans or their designees will interview students applying for university withdrawal and will forward a completed "Exit Application" to the registrar's office.
5. Any variation from this rule requires approval by the appropriate academic

1. (There are occasions when efficiency, productivity and fairness can best be served by appointing a uniquely qualified individual to a vacant position.

1. All requests for videotapes, films, or slide presentations covered by this rule shall be reviewed by the university video/slide review committee.
2. Cost estimates for videotapes and slide presentations are written by the instructional resources center, teleproductions and/or AV services, respectively.

1. University-owned vehicles assigned to a department shall be used only for official university business.
2. Only university employees are permitted to drive motor vehicles owned or leased by the university. Students are not permitted to drive a university owned vehicle unless specific authorization is granted by the department head.
3. All persons driving motor vehicles owned or leased by the university must hold a valid driver's license in the state of Ohio or in the state in which the operator resides.