Disclaimer

This handbook is presented as guidelines for some of Limestone University’s current policies, practices, rules, benefits, and procedures. The handbook and all its contents supersede, replace, and make null and void all previously issued, communicated, or distributed handbooks, manuals, policies, rules, practices, benefits, or procedures.  This handbook and these policies, rules, benefits, practices, or procedures are not contracts and may be changed, amended, modified, or discontinued with or without notice by the University when it, in its discretion, deems it necessary.  This handbook does not create, nor shall it be deemed to create, a contract, either express or implied, between the University and any employee.  Nothing in this handbook binds the University or any employee to a specific or definite period of employment or any specific policies, procedures, benefits, guidelines, working conditions, or privileges of employment.  As an employee, you are an at-will employee completely free to leave the University at any time you choose, and the University has the same right to end the employment relationship based on policies set within this handbook.

Staff Members Only:

No member of management, except the President, has the authority to bind the University to any employment contract for any specified period with any staff member.  Employment between the University and a staff member must be in writing, signed by the employee and the President, and entitled “employment agreement.”

Faculty Members Only:

Probationary faculty are at-will employees except that they enjoy appeal rights as outlined in the policy titled “Termination” under the faculty employment policies section of this handbook, as it may be amended occasionally. 

Non-tenured, non-probationary faculty are at-will employees except that they enjoy the provisions established by the Termination section (#3) of this handbook, as it may be amended from time to time. 

Tenured faculty are governed by many of the provisions of this handbook except that they enjoy continuous employment within the terms of the Termination section (#4) of this handbook, notwithstanding any provision contained elsewhere in this disclaimer or any other University document.  All faculty members are subject to the provisions of the Termination section (#5 and 6).