Appendix C - Adequate Cause for Dismissal

Tenure is designed to protect the academic freedom of individual faculty members who have established themselves during probationary periods. Tenured faculty are expected to continue to strive for excellence in all of their responsibilities in instruction, scholarly development, and service to the College, the community, and the academic profession.

Adequate cause for dismissal of tenured faculty members will be related directly and substantially to their fitness in their professional capacities as teachers and shall include, but should not be limited to, serious matters such as:

• moral turpitude;
• serious misrepresentation of facts by anyone accepting a faculty contract, e.g., years of teaching experience or degrees held;
• professional incompetence, which includes failure to continue the normal and expected satisfactory teaching, scholarly development, and other services within the areas of presumed professional competence;
• serious violation of the code of conduct set forth in the Handbook (4.2.1.d ) and
• serious violation of provisions of contract;
• serious violation of the civil rights of a student or another Providence College employee or an applicant for the status of student or employee;
• actions that evoke condemnation by the wider academic community;
• failure to heed repeated formal written warnings to correct deficiencies;
• unprofessional conduct that seriously affects the functioning of the department or the College in an adverse fashion;
• conviction or entry of plea of guilty or no contest to a felony, or a conviction or entry of plea of guilty or no contest to a misdemeanor which carries a jail term of not less than one year and/or which renders the faculty member unfit to perform the duties and responsibilities of a faculty member at Providence College.