This faculty handbook was created to provide full-time faculty at Northland Pioneer College with the kinds of information they need about policies and procedures at the college. The handbook is organized into seven sections: (1) Administration, dealing with the philosophy of administration and containing a glossary of terms; (2) the Business Office, covering payroll, purchasing, bidding procedures, budget development, grants management and acquisition, and travel; (3) Public Information, discussing the development of semester schedules and the college catalog, news releases, and printing and publishing; (4) Facilities, clarifying procedures related to key issue and recovery, classroom requests, mail distribution, and classroom or office furniture relocation; (5) Student Services, explaining course challenge, withdrawal, repeating classes, grading procedures for final grades, the bookstore, and tutoring; (6) Personnel, outlining policies related to affirmative action, grievances, the 1979-80 salary plan, fringe benefits, hiring and leaves of classified staff, and faculty assignment classification scheme and evaluation; and (7) Instruction, considering course planning, program development, textbook selection, class cancellation/minimum enrollment, field trips, course guides and outlines, and course and program evaluation. (AYC)