SECTION 7. EFFECTIVENESS
Except as otherwise provided below, all provisions of these policies and regulations shall become operative (with respect to all existing as well as future faculty appointments) on the effective date, which shall be the date 35 calendar days after the day on which these policies and regulations shall have been approved by the President and the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina:
a. The first two sentences of Section 2.b.(3) shall apply only with respect to those persons whose initial appointment at the rank of assistant professor shall be made after the effective date. With respect to any person who, upon the effective date, is serving under an initial three-year appointment at the rank of assistant professor, the probationary term of such appointment shall continue to be three years, the decision as to whether he or she will be reappointed upon expiration of such term shall be made and communicated in writing to him or her prior to the end of the second year of such term, and the remaining provisions of Section 2.b.(3) shall be applicable.
b. The provisions of the fifth sentence of the second paragraph of Section 2.b.(4) shall apply only with respect to persons who, upon the effective date, shall not have been serving at the rank of instructor for as long as three years. As to persons who, upon the effective date, shall have been serving at the rank of instructor for three or more years, the provisions of said sentence shall have no application; neither requiring nonreappointment nor insuring reappointment upon expiration of their then-current or subsequent one-year terms, but leaving this decision to be made as under the policies and regulations formerly applying.
c. The provisions of the last sentence of Section 2.b.(4) shall apply only with respect to cases arising thereunder after the effective date.
d. All provisions hereof requiring that a department chairman consult with the assembled full professors of the department shall apply only with respect to personnel recommendations initiated by the department chairman after the effective date.
e. The provisions of the first sentence of Section 2.c.(7) shall apply only with respect to joint appointments made after the effective date.
f. The provisions of Section 4 shall apply, not only with respect to persons to whom notices of nonreappointment shall be given subsequent to the effective date, but also with respect to persons to whom such notices shall have been given within the period of 60 calendar days next preceding the effective date. Instructors, assistant professors, and associate professors to whom notices of nonreappointment shall have been given within the period of 60 calendar days next preceding the effective date shall have 20 calendar days after the effective date within which to initiate the procedures for review provided in Section 4.
g. The provisions of Section 5 shall apply with respect to all persons who, upon the effective date, have attained normal retirement age and are in continued terms of employment, as well as to those persons who shall attain normal retirement age after the effective date.
The policies and regulations herein set forth, with the exception of those contained in Section 6, shall not be applied to alter existing incidents of academic tenure* to the disadvantage of any person who shall have been a member of the faculty immediately prior to the effective date. [*As used here, the phrase "existing incidents of academic tenure" means those characteristics of academic ranks set out in Section 4-2(b) of the "Code Provisions Governing The University of North Carolina, Bylaws of the Board of Trustees, and Duties of the University Officers—1970."]