Per APM - 110-4-(15), members of the faculty are individuals appointed to the following titles or series:

• Professor series
• Acting titles in the Professor series (Students who hold the Acting Instructor title are not considered faculty.)
• Visiting titles in the Professor series
• Professor in Residence series
• Adjunct Professor series
• Professor of Clinical (e.g., Medicine) series
• Health Sciences Clinical Professor series
• Supervisor of Teacher Education
• Lecturer
• Senior Lecturer
• Professor of Teaching series
• Acting titles in the Professor of Teaching series
• Lecturer in Summer Session
• Coordinator of Field Work
• Field Work Supervisor
• Field Work Consultant

Academic titles represented by a bargaining unit.  Collective Bargaining Agreements for represented appointees will dictate terms of leaves and accruals.

Sick leave (Accrual or Bank) is available for use only during scheduled work hours and shall be used in keeping with normally approved purposes including:

• Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing physical or mental health condition;
• Preventive care; childbearing and childrearing (see APM - 715 and 760);
• Disability; or for the purposes specified in APM - 758 (issuance expected January 2025).
• Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing physical or mental health condition or preventive care for an appointee’s child regardless of age or dependency status, parent, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or designated person.
• At the appointee’s option, during family and medical leave to which the appointee is entitled under APM - 715 when the appointee is taking family and medical leave for any covered reason other than qualifying exigency leave.
• May be used by an academic appointee who is a victim of a qualifying act of violence or who has a family member who is a victim of a qualifying act of violence, in accordance with APM - 758 (issuance expected January 2025)

• Unused Paid Sick Leave Bank days do not carry forward from calendar year to calendar year. The maximum number of Paid Sick Leave Bank days an academic appointee can have is six (6).
• Unused Paid Sick Leave Bank days expire on December 31st of each calendar year, or the last day of the appointment if the appointment ends before December 31st. A new Paid Sick Leave Bank balance of six (6) days will be allocated each January 1st.
• The paid sick leave bank of six days is allocated once per calendar year if the appointee is employed 30 calendar days or more in a calendar year in a paid sick leave bank eligible job. The bank of six days is available for use in that job. 
• Recalled academic appointees are not eligible for paid sick leave bank.
• Paid Sick Leave Bank is distinct and separate from accrued paid sick leave.

Many university extension appointees are hired at 0% with $0.00 compensation, if the period at 0% employment is 30 calendar days or more in a calendar year, the “by agreement” university extension teacher is provided a paid sick leave bank of six days.

• Paid sick leave bank days are are available for use only on scheduled workdays.
• The paid sick leave bank is allocated once per calendar year if the appointee is employed 30 calendar days or more in a calendar year.
• If a university extension appointee is rehired in the same calendar year, a new bank is not provided but previous unused days are reinstated.

•  The University prohibits any form of retaliation or discrimination against an employee for using or attempting to use paid sick leave designated as protected and for any other reason prohibited by policy. 
• Department will generally not require documentation when an employee requests to use protected paid sick leave consistent with policy, but there may be times when it is appropriate to request documentation.
  • For example, when information indicates that the employee is not requesting the leave for a valid purpose or when an appointee requests to use protected paid sick leave balance while on FMLA/CFRA.

Paid sick leave (Accruals or Bank) is not designated as "Protectes" on its own, appointees must request that a specific period of sick leave be designated as such, not to exceed 6 days per calendar year.

• Not all reasons for which sick leave is taken qualify for a “protected” designation. For example, an employee may use paid sick leave for a household member who is not a family member as described in policy.