Ways to tell — The person has been specifically appointed by their department (through Associate Vice President of Faculty office) to be a part of the university faculty. They will show up in the PeopleSoft Faculty System as TEN (tenured), NTK (not tenured, but on track) or NA (tenure ineligible/auxiliary)
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Use titles of: Associate Instructor (if mainly teaching) Research Assoc or Post Doc (if mainly doing research) (unless a staff classification is most appropriate) |
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Is the person tenured/tenure-track? |
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Use rank alone as the title: Professor (generally tenured) Assoc Professor (may or may not be tenured) Asst Professor (generally on-track but not yet tenured) Instructor (on tenure track but has credential to finish before qualifying as Assistant Professor) |
Use rank plus one of the auxiliary faculty categories) Mainly teaching? [rank] (LECTURER) Mainly doing research? RESEARCH [rank] Visiting the U. temporarily? VISITING [rank] Part-time has a primary affiliation in a different dept or off-campus. ADJUNCT [rank] Instructional faculty primarily in a practice or clinical context? Being paid? [rank] (CLINICAL) Not being paid? CLINICAL [rank] *Auxiliary appointments last for 1 year and faculty must be reappointed each year after departmental review. Departments are given the opportunity to easily reappoint these faculty from a list sent out by the Academic Affairs Office each January. |
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