Pressures to reinvent academic careers, reformulate academic appointments, and broaden the spectrum of faculty employment arrangements are widespread. Often, legislators, board members, administrators, and faculty discuss faculty appointment policy changes in a vacuum, with little data about employment provisions at other institutions. In nine key areas of faculty employment policy—academic freedom, probationary periods, the definition and locus of tenure, faculty ranks and titles, promotion policies, post-tenure review, dismissal for cause and lesser sanctions, financial exigency and program discontinuance, and employment provisions at institutions without tenure—Policies on Faculty Appointment catalogs the range of provisions, denoting norms by Carnegie classification and highlighting unusual and/or unorthodox policies. Policies on Faculty Appointment highlights some of the extensive data included in the CD-ROM, Faculty Appointment Policy Archive (FAPA). Contents include: • Freedom in the academy by Cheryl Sternman Rule, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • The pre-tenure period by Jared L. Bleak, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • The meaning, purpose, and locus of tenure by Cathy A. Trower, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • Academic ranks and titles of full-time nontenure-track faculty by Frances L. Shavers, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • Climbing the academic ladder by KerryAnn O’Meara, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • Post-tenure review analyzed by Cheryl Sternman Rule, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • The consequences of misbehavior: Dismissal for cause and lesser sanctions by Cheryl Sternman Rule, Harvard University Graduate School of Education • Dismissal of tenured faculty for financial exigency and program discontinuance by Lara K. Couturier, Brown University • Standard deviations: Faculty appointment policies at institutions without tenure by William T. Mallon, Harvard University Graduate School of Education