Graduate Faculty Criteria

Faculty teaching graduate courses at Radford must be granted either "full" or "associate" graduate faculty status. The criteria for both designations of graduate faculty are described below.

To apply for graduate faculty status, or to renew one's graduate faculty status, use the Application for Graduate Faculty Status form [PDF].

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 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.

Revision Approved by Graduate Affairs Council: March 5, 2021
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