General Guidelines

• All appointments to the faculty shall be made strictly on the basis of merit. No religious test shall be applied, nor shall the religious opinions or affiliations of the instructors of the University be a matter of examination or inquiry. [Art. 157]
• Members of the faculty shall be exempt as such from any civil service examination or regulation as a requisite to appointment. [Art. 158] However, faculty members assigned to teach subjects for licensure examinations on all professions shall be holders of valid certificates of registration/professional licenses and professional identification cards, or special temporary permits, or a valid certificate of competency for the profession issued by the Professional Regulation Commission. [from R.A. 8981, PRC Modernization Act of 2000] 
• Every recommendation to the Board of Regents for appointment or promotion shall be accompanied with a complete statement of the qualifications, training, service record, publications, or research of the candidate and such other matters which may be called for by the rules of the University. [Art. 159]
• Recommendations for appointments and promotions in the faculty shall be made in accordance with such rules of procedure as may be prescribed by the President and shall be strictly in consonance with a plan of standardization of faculty positions. The Board of Regents shall not approve any appointment which shall take effect earlier than thirty (30) days before the meeting of the Board at which the recommendation for promotion is presented. [Art. 160; amended at 818th BOR meeting, Mar. 23, 1972] 53
• It is the policy of the University to discourage nepotism*in appointments to the academic and administrative staff of the University except in cases where the interests of the University require otherwise and the Board of Regents so decides. This policy shall be observed and applied within the individual units of the University, such as the colleges and schools. [Art. 163, amended at 754th BOR meeting, Jan. 20, 1967]
• No person shall be eligible for appointment or reinstatement as a regular member of the faculty of the University during the term for which s/he has been elected to any political office. [Art. 164]
• No person who has been defeated as a candidate for any political office in an election shall be eligible for appointment or reinstatement as a regular member of the faculty within a year after the election. [Art. 165]
• No person shall be appointed member of the faculty without compensation unless, in the opinion of the President/Chancellor of the University, such a person possesses high professional or scholastic competence and the immediate requirements of the University justify the appointment. [Art. 166]
• No person shall be appointed to the faculty on part- or full-time basis, with or without compensation, if the said person is on the staff of any private university or college in the Philippines; Provided, That when the immediate requirements of the University justify the appointment and no other applicant approximates the needed high professional and scholastic competence, such a person may be appointed on a year-to-year basis until another, who possesses the desired competence and is not connected with other educational institutions, is available and willing to accept such an appointment. [Art. 167]
• In all appointments to the positions of lecturers, senior lecturers, or professorial lecturers in the University, nominees who are connected with other branches of the Government shall present written permits from the department head concerned, and shall state the total number of hours a week they are teaching in other schools. [Art. 161, amended at 759th BOR meeting, June 15, 1967 and 845th BOR meeting, Apr. 25, 1974]

* Nepotism is prohibited insofar as administrative and other non-teaching personnel are concerned [Sec. 49, P.D. 807]