Faculty Handbook – August 2022 47 FACULTY EVALUATION Faculty evaluations follow Board of Regents Policy 4:13. The Faculty Annual Performance Evaluation (APE) form and NSU Standards for the Annual Review of Faculty Performance (Standards Document) are available at MyNSU>Faculty Resources. TERMINATION POLICY Any faculty member who voluntarily terminates employment with Northern State University must provide the Human Resources department with a letter of resignation stating the last day of employment. The remainder of the contract will be paid through August with insurance coverage through September unless otherwise requested from the faculty member. Please see the Human Resources department prior to the final date of employment to complete necessary paperwork. ACCEPTANCE OF HONORARIA Northern State University does not prohibit acceptance of a nominal honorarium, in addition to actual expenses when an administrator or faculty member from one state supported university who serves another state supported university as speaker, consultant, or in any other professional capacity. Payment will be made through the university payroll system. FACULTY AUTHORED TEXTBOOKS Per the South Dakota Constitution, Article VIII, faculty may not receive any revenue from materials that they require students (or the institution) to purchase. Thus, any faculty member who is approved to assign a self-authored work that will result in revenue payable to the faculty member must first arrange to assign all revenues to the NSU Foundation or another charitable entity. Faculty who wish to use self-authored textbooks or course materials (e.g., lab manuals or course notes) must obtain prior authorization from their department chair. Authorization will be granted upon demonstration (i) that, all author royalty interests have been assigned in writing to the NSU Foundation or other charitable entity as unrestricted revenue and (ii) that the materials are consistent with the course description. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY All Information Technology Policies, including the SDBOR Acceptable Use Policy, may be found under Campus Resources on the myNSU portal. By logging on to NSU systems and/or utilizing NSU-owned technology equipment, users are confirming that they are authorized to use the systems and/or equipment and agree to comply with applicable regulations, laws and policies of the SD Board of Regents and its institutions. HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD POLICIES The NSU Institutional Review Board policies are available at MyNSU>Employee Resources>Institutional Review Board.
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