Graduate Faculty Criteria
Full Graduate Faculty Membership
(five year renewable appointment)
Status: Full-time or part-time, tenured/tenure-track faculty OR special purpose faculty OR administrative/professional faculty.
Qualifications: Doctorate or other terminal degree recognized at time of hire, (e.g. MFA) and evidence of continuing scholarly/creative activity.
Approval: Cover sheet and current vita; recommendation by department chair or school director and college dean; approval by graduate dean and provost.
Duties: May teach graduate classes, supervise directed studies and recitals, chair and serve on comprehensive examination, thesis and dissertation/doctoral committees, and supervise graduate students in clinical practica and internships at the discretion of the department chair and/or school director.
Associate Graduate Faculty Membership
(three year renewable appointment)
Status: Full-time or part-time, tenured/tenure-track faculty OR special purpose faculty OR adjunct faculty OR administrative/professional faculty.
Qualifications: No doctorate or other recognized terminal degree, or a doctorate or other recognized terminal degree not in teaching field, but has demonstrated continuing scholarly/creative activity or professional experience.
Approval: Cover sheet and current vita; recommendation by department chair or school director, with justification and specified course limitations; recommendation by college dean; approval by Graduate Affairs Council; approval by graduate dean and provost.
Duties: May teach graduate classes, supervise directed studies and recitals, serve on comprehensive examination, thesis and dissertation/doctoral committees, and supervise graduate students in clinical practica and internships, subject to limitations, at the discretion of the department chair and/or school director. Faculty in this category will be limited to specified courses renewable after three years.
Approved by Graduate Affairs Council: November 9, 2009
Submitted to Faculty Senate for Comment: December 8, 2009
Endorsed by Faculty Senate: April 1, 2010
Approved by Provost’s Office: August 12, 2010