[ Section II B of Faculty Handbook]
1. Professional Courtesy Appointments
A department at Ohio University may provide an academic home to professional persons through special courtesy appointments such as a Scholar, Research Scientist, Professional, or Artist when mutually beneficial to the individual and the department.
Appointments are made by the dean of a college upon recommendation from a department or regional campus division, and copies of the letter of appointment go to the Provost and President. Persons granted these appointments must have the appropriate qualifications to pursue a program of research, scholarship, or creative activity. This program may also include proposal and report writing, grant solicitation, publication of results, and/or performance and exhibition. Persons with these appointments receive an annual letter of appointment that describes the nature of their work with an appropriate title.
Such appointees are eligible for computer accounts, faculty ID cards, parking, faculty library privileges, and are listed in the campus directory, but receive no salary. Additional resources may be made available to them by departments or regional campuses depending on availability.
Suitably qualified appointees may teach regularly scheduled classes upon the issuance of a contract specifying both an appropriate salary and faculty classification.
2. Other Special Appointments
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Assistant Research, Associate Research, and Research Professor as defined by Ohio University Policy #01.015 are solely supported on external funds (grants or contracts). These positions do not hold faculty rank, faculty status nor teaching responsibilities. The research positions/people are not governed nor protected by the Faculty Handbook depending on their contract.
Suitably qualified appointees may teach regularly scheduled classes upon the issuance of an additional contract specifying both an appropriate salary and faculty classification.
- It is recognized that in some departments and divisions of the University there are positions, such as Technical Assistant and Curator, that do not necessarily require advanced degrees. Appointees to these positions will not ordinarily receive tenure. In addition to a formal contract, such appointees will be given a written statement describing the character as well as the probable minimum and maximum duration of their work.