Faculty Responsibilities at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø
As expressed in the Compact Between Teachers, Learners and Educational Staff, the moral, ethical and professional behavior of all Baylor personnel is essential to the basic principles of the institution. For faculty members this requires a commitment to:
- Maintain currency in professional knowledge and skills.
- Ensure excellence of the educational curriculum.
- Be a model of professionalism in all interactions with faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, and staff.
- Respect all faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, and staff as individuals, without regard to gender, age, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation; and oppose observed disrespect or bias.
- Nurture learner commitment to achieve personal, family, and professional balance.
- Recognize and acknowledge expressions of professional attitudes and behaviors as well as the achievement of quantifiable academic excellence.
- Respond vigorously to unprofessional behavior and indications of abuse or exploitation of faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, or staff.
- Create a safe environment in which faculty, learners, and staff can communicate any concern about breaches of this compact.
- Accept responsibility for instilling these attributes in learners and faculty for whom you have responsibility.
- Avoid conflict of interests, report conflicts that exist and follow Conflict of Interest management plans.
- Report all outside activities annually.
- Report mistakes, waste, and all unprofessional behavior when observed.
Designated faculty of the institution additionally have responsibility for the content, quality and effectiveness of the academic programs including admissions, curriculum, review of students’ academic progress and recommendation for conferral of degrees.
Table Of Contents: ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Faculty Handbook
The Faculty Handbook is a web-based compilation of the policies, procedures and resources pertaining to faculty members across ºÚÁÏÉçÇø's mission areas of education, research, healthcare and community outreach. By linking to source documents, the handbook is intended to reference the most current information available. While many of the links listed herein lead to the College's public website, some will require your BCM login to access the intranet.
Faculty Affairs
Faculty Procedures
(Downloadable PDF documents)
Faculty Policies
(Baylor login required)
Faculty Benefits
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Corporate Compliance & Audit Services
(Baylor login required)
Clinical Care
College Resources
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Faculty Appointment & Promotion Guidelines
Baylor undertook a significant reexamination and revision of the guidelines for faculty appointments and promotions. These updates resulted in the following:
- Updated and broader definition of scholarship that is validated by peers and communicated beyond the College
- A new "patient care single mission pathway" for clinicians with significant contributions as master clinicians, clinical administrative leaders, contributors to quality and safety, and clinical business innovation
- Explicit eligibility for academic promotion of a broad range of faculty members with terminal degrees in their fields
- New standards for appointment and promotion of voluntary faculty members who work with Baylor learners in clinical settings
- New forms of evidence that faculty members may use to demonstrate excellence in areas such as patient safety and healthcare quality, academic leadership and innovation/business development
Are you a Baylor faculty member looking for forms, policies or procedures relevant to your role or your career progression? Visit the Office of Faculty Affairs intranet site. (Baylor login required)