Highlights of Faculty Task Force Recommendations : Disciplinary Action

Define “misconduct” in keeping with the practices at top-tier schools, not as an infraction of any university rule.
Define what constitutes “just cause” for disciplinary action in line with definitions used at top-tier universities.
Require that the punishment must always be appropriate to the nature and severity of the misconduct.
Strengthen the policy of “progressive discipline,” which imposes penalties short of suspension and termination.
Guarantee full due process protections by specifying detailed hearing procedures, by combining proven practices at top-tier schools with the best existing UF procedures.
Limit putting faculty on leave-pending-investigation to only extraordinary circumstances where the Administration proves a legitimate need, and make all such precautionary leaves paid leave.
Mandate that disciplinary penalties cannot be imposed until the faculty member has been found guilty of misconduct in a formal hearing before an appropriate hearing panel of faculty peers.