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Chapter 1 Academic Practices
4.1.1 Academic Freedom
4.1.2 Catalog
4.1.3 Academic Integrity
4.1.4 Course Syllabi
4.1.5 Pre-Final Exam Week
4.1.6 Student Absence from Class (Attendance)
4.1.7 Student Opinion of Instruction
4.1.8 Latin Honors
4.1.9 Grade Changes
4.1.10 First-Time Freshmen Admissions
4.1.11 Awarding Incomplete Grades
4.1.12 Course Registration
4.1.13 Class Meetings
4.1.14 Final Examinations
4.1.15 Grade Appeals
4.1.17 Midterm Grades for Undergraduate Courses

Chapter 2 Academic Credit
4.2.1 Credit for Non-Collegiate Instruction
4.2.2 Dual Credit (repealed; currently incorporated in EKU Now! Program)
4.2.3 Determining the Amount and Level of Academic Credit
4.2.4 Transfer Credits
4.2.5 Credit by Examination
4.2.6 Coursework Transfer after Dismissal
4.2.7 Academic Bankruptcy of Eastern Work
4.2.8 Academic Bankruptcy of Transferred Work
4.2.9 Military Credits
4.2.10 College Level Examination Program (CLEP)

Chapter 3 Courses, Programs, and Degrees
4.3.1 Associate Degree Requirements
4.3.2 Baccalaureate Degree Requirements
4.3.3 Substantive Change in Academic Programming
4.3.5 Late Enrollment in Courses
4.3.6 University Writing Requirement
4.3.7 Drop or Withdrawal from Courses
4.3.8 Posthumous Degrees
4.3.9 Dual Degree Agreements between EKU and Foreign Exchange Institutions
4.3.10 Multiple Majors/Minors
4.3.11 Subsequent Degrees
4.3.12 Concurrent Degrees
4.3.14 Degree Completion for Accomplished Professionals
4.3.17 Course by Special Arrangement
4.3.18 Military Activation and Course Completion
4.3.19 Pass-Fail Option

Chapter 4 Academic Research and Sponsored Projects
4.4.1 Conflict of Interest and Financial Disclosures
4.4.2 Intellectual Property
4.4.3 Cost Sharing on Externally Sponsored Projects
4.4.4 Cost Transfers on Externally Sponsored Projects
4.4.5 Direct Charges on Externally Sponsored Projects
4.4.6 Effort Reporting on Externally Sponsored Projects
4.4.7 Externally-Sponsored Proposal Submission and Award Acceptance
4.4.8 Salary Compensation on Externally-Sponsored Projects
4.4.9 Subrecipient Monitoring
4.4.10 Facilties and Administrative (F&A) Cost Recovery and Distribution
4.4.11 Misconduct in Science
4.4.12 Protecting Human Subjects in Research
4.4.13 Humane Care and Use of Animals in Research and Teaching Activities

Chapter 5 Graduate Education
4.5.2 Time Limit on Master's Degrees
4.5.3 Academic Bankruptcy of Graduate Work
4.5.4 Midterm Grades for Graduate Courses

Chapter 6 Faculty Appointments and Evaluation
4.6.1 Determining Qualification of Faculty Teaching Credit-Bearing Courses
4.6.2 Adjunct Faculty
4.6.3 Faculty Appointments
4.6.4 Promotion and Tenure
4.6.5 Evaluation of Non-Tenured Tenure-Track Faculty
4.6.7 Tenured Faculty Member Review (Post Tenure Review)
4.6.8 Visiting Faculty
4.6.9 Retirement Transition Program
4.6.10 Lectureships
4.6.11 Clinical Faculty
4.6.12 Shared Faculty Appointments
4.6.13 Part-Time Faculty Appointments
4.6.14 Evaluation of Part-Time Faculty
4.6.15 Proficiency in English
4.6.16 Foundation Professorships

Chapter 7 Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
4.7.1 Faculty Authored Texts
4.7.2 Sabbaticals
4.7.3 Faculty Workload
4.7.4 Faculty Grievances
4.7.5 Faculty Absences
4.7.6 Political Activity of Faculty
4.7.7 Outside Activities (Faculty)
4.7.8 Faculty Emeritus/Emerita
4.7.9 Limitation on Academic Work while under Contract to Teach at Eastern
4.7.10 Faculty Responsibility for English Composition

Chapter 8 Administrative
4.8.1 Evaluation of Academic Administrators
4.8.2 Cancellation or Delay of Classes
4.8.3 Assignment of Summer Teaching