§ 6212. Tenure. 1. The following words and phrases, for the purposes\nof this section, shall have the following meanings:\n a. "Educational unit" shall mean a college, school, preparatory\nschool, high school, or model school.\n b. "Instructional staff" shall mean the persons employed by the board\nof trustees in the educational units governed and administered by it in\nthe grades or positions of president, dean, director, professor,\nassociate professor, assistant professor, instructor, fellow, lecturer,\nsenior registrar, registrar, assistant registrar, associate registrar,\ncollege laboratory technicians; in the high school and model school:\nprincipal, first assistant, supervisor, instructor, assistant teacher,\ncritic teacher, teacher; or in any grade or position which the board of\ntrustees in its discretion may add thereto.\n c. "Tenure" shall mean the right of a person to hold his position\nduring good behavior and efficient and competent service, and not to be\nremoved therefrom except for cause in the manner hereinafter provided.\n 2. All members of the permanent instructional staff of the educational\nunits governed and administered by the board of trustees shall have\ntenure.\n 3. The permanent instructional staff shall consist of all persons\nemployed by the city university on an annual salary basis at the\neducational units governed and administered by the board of trustees as\nfollows: (a) in the grades of professor, associate professor, assistant\nprofessor, or in any grade or position which the board in its discretion\nmay add thereto, who, after serving on an annual salary in any of the\ngrades or positions enumerated or provided for in this paragraph for\nseven full years continuously, have been appointed or shall be appointed\nfor an eighth full year, except as provided in subdivisions four and\nfive of this section; and (b) in the grades of college laboratory\ntechnician, senior registrar, registrar, assistant registrar, associate\nregistrar, assistant librarian and in the elementary and high schools:\ninstructor, assistant teacher, critic teacher, or teacher, or in any\ngrade or position which the board in its discretion may add thereto,\nwho, after serving on an annual salary in any of the grades or positions\nenumerated or provided for in this paragraph for five full years\ncontinuously, have been appointed or shall be appointed for a sixth full\nyear, except as provided in subdivision four of this section; the\nmembership of such persons on the permanent instructional staff as\nprovided for in paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall become effective\non the first day of September following their reappointment for the\neighth full year, and the membership of such persons on the permanent\ninstructional staff as provided for in this paragraph shall become\neffective on the first day of September following their reappointment\nfor the sixth full year. Where the service of a member of the\ninstructional staff, in one of the titles listed or provided for herein,\nis interrupted by reason of absence on a maternity or child care leave\nduly granted by the board of trustees, the period of creditable service\nimmediately preceding such absence shall be counted in computing the\nfull years of service required by this subdivision.\n 4. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as conferring or\npermitting tenure, or service credit toward the achievement of tenure,\nin the grades or positions of president, director, assistant director,\ndean, assistant dean, head of instructional department, chairman of\ninstructional department, fellow, laboratory teaching assistant,\nprincipal, supervisor, or first assistant. Appointment to such grade or\nposition, or removal therefrom, however, shall not deprive the person so\nappointed or removed of tenure in the highest position on the\ninstructional staff held with tenure prior to his appointment to such\noffice or conjointly with such office, nor shall the appointme
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