- INSTRUCTOR
(probationary appointment/tenure track)
- Tenure will not be granted while person holds this rank; ABD or lacks only
defense or
official conferring of appropriate degree
Duties: Teaching; Research/Creative Activities; Service
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (probationary appointment/tenure track)
- Appropriate terminal degree in field
Duties: Teaching; Research/Creative Activities; Service
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
(probationary appointment/tenure track)
- Appropriate terminal degree in field
Duties: Teaching; Research/Creative Activities; Service
- PROFESSOR
(probationary appointment/tenure track)
- Appropriate terminal degree in field
Duties: Teaching; Research/Creative Activities; Service
- LECTURER I
(does not earn tenure)
- Master's degree; occasionally only a baccalaureate degree in certain
fields plus appropriate experience
Duties: Teaching
- LECTURER II
(does not earn tenure)
- Master's degree and meritorious service in rank of Lecturer I for at least
four years
Duties: Teaching
- SENIOR LECTURER
(does not earn tenure)
- Master's degree and meritorious service in rank of Lecturer II for at least
four years
Duties: Teaching
- CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Normally a Master's degree; occasionally a baccalaureate degree plus
appropriate experience;
entry level appointment in fields such as Dental Hygiene, Nutrition, Nursing,
Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and other clinical areas
Duties: Clinical/Laboratory Teaching
- ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Master's degree and significant experience
Duties: Clinical/Laboratory Teaching
- ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Doctoral degree preferred and/or significant experience
Duties: Clinical/Laboratory Teaching
- CLINICAL PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Doctoral degree preferred and significant experience
Duties: Clinical/Laboratory Teaching
- ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Doctoral degree; entry level appointment for a person whose principal
assignment is research
Duties: Research
- ASSOCIATE RESEARCH PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Doctoral degree plus at least five to seven years' experience, principally
in research
Duties: Research
- RESEARCH PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Doctoral degree plus at least eight to ten years' experience, principally in
research
Duties: Research
- VISITING SERIES:
Persons holding appropriate degrees and with
experience for titles in the
- Professorial Series who are hired for short term, nonrenewable terms to
replace faculty or faculty on leave to enrich academic programs
- ASSISTANT VISITING PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Appropriate terminal degree
Duties: Teaching or research
- ASSOCIATE VISITING PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Appropriate terminal degree plus at least five years' experience
Duties: Teaching or research
- VISITING PROFESSOR
(does not earn tenure)
- Appropriate terminal degree plus at least eight years' experience
Duties: Teaching or research
- ADJUNCT FACULTY
(does not earn tenure)
- Adjunct Instructor (at least Master's degree)
Assistant Adjunct Professor (appropriate terminal degree and at least three
years' teaching experience)
Associate Adjunct Professor (appropriate terminal degree and at least five
years' teaching experience)
Adjunct Professor (appropriate terminal degree and at least eight years'
teaching experience)
Duties: Teaching
- CLINICAL ADJUNCT FACULTY
(does not earn tenure)
- Same as above for part-time and full-time faculty whose training and/or
assignment warrant "Clinical" prefix
- ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE
(does not earn tenure)
- Special category with qualifications and duties described by the discipline
when the position is requested
APPROVED: 6/92
