Instructional (Non-Tenure-Track) Faculty consist of experienced persons holding part-time or full-time appointments, who are primarily considered instructional personnel and may also have service responsibilities, related to the teaching mission of the department, college, or university but no expectation for research or creative activity.
Instructional faculty members promoted within the College will demonstrate high-quality mentoring/teaching effectiveness. Teaching effectiveness is viewed as a measure of quality, not quantity, and is expected of all candidates. Instructional faculty may hold the rank
- Assistant Professor of Instruction
- Associate Professor of Instruction
- Professor of Instruction
Faculty in the Instructional faculty track will normally be hired at the rank of Assistant Professor of Instruction, but rank may be negotiated at the time of hire depending on qualifications and experience.
Instructional faculty must be evaluated annually by the IHS Chair based on the IHS guidelines with more extensive reviews performed in the last year of multi-year contracts. Extensive reviews will be completed by the IHS PC with input from the IHS Chair and then sent on to the Dean for the action of renewal or non-renewal.
Instructional faculty members may be employed on the basis of full-time or part-time appointments.
Instructional faculty members may negotiate a shift from a full-time to a part-time appointment, or from a part-time to a full-time appointment without loss of rank.
Percentage distribution of teaching and service responsibilities are negotiated with the Chair/Director at the time of hire in the letter of offer and annually as appropriate to meet the needs of the unit or college.