Regulations

Graduate and Doctoral Faculty Requirements

Eligibility (Graduate Council Policy 5/2/90)

To be eligible for Graduate Faculty status, a faculty member must meet the following criteria:

A. Doctorate in faculty member's field of specialization or an appropriate terminal degree in the case of fields of specialization not usually having a Doctorate; and
B. Outstanding professional recognition within the discipline in which they are to teach.

Under exceptional circumstances, faculty who do not meet the criterion of a terminal degree but who present evidence of outstanding professional accomplishment may be considered for graduate faculty status.

Appointment to Graduate Faculty status is implemented by the Dean of the School of Graduate, Professional and Continuing Education in consultation with the faculty member's Department Chairperson and College/School Dean.  Each faculty member shall receive a letter of appointment from the Graduate Dean.

To maintain Graduate Faculty status, a faculty member must show evidence of involvement in the graduate program through teaching graduate courses, serving as research advisor, making contributions to the discipline, or participating in the development and evaluation of Comprehensive experiences. Lack of evidence of such involvement within a three-year period shall result in the loss of graduate faculty status.

A faculty member who has lost Graduate Faculty status may apply for reinstatement in writing to the Dean of the School of Graduate, Professional and Continuing Education. The Graduate Dean, in consultation with the faculty member's Chairperson and College/School Dean, will make the decision to reinstate.

Doctoral Faculty (Graduate Council Policy- April, 1999)

Candidates for appointment to the doctoral faculty must:

1. Hold an appropriate doctorate, have expertise in a field that is represented in a doctoral program, and have outstanding professional recognition in the discipline in which they teach;

2. Be excellent teachers;

3. Be effective in their interaction with students and exercise well the full responsibilities associated with the mentoring of doctoral students, including the mentoring of their research and serving as chairs and members of dissertation committees; and

4. Be effective in their interaction with students and be active scholars who engage in continuing significant and high quality work within a clearly defined program of research consistent with an FSIP category.  They must demonstrate scholarship in one of the FSIP scholarship categories: discovery, integration, or aesthetic creation (DIAC); pedagogy; or application, in each academic year.  These three FSIP categories (DIAC, pedagogy, and application) carry equal weight and provide equal access to doctoral faculty status. The quality of their work in at least one of the FSIP categories must be demonstrated by its submission for external peer review, by its selection for dissemination through normally accepted venues for academic products such as publications and conference presentations, by the acquisition of external funds to support the work or by other equivalent forms of professional accomplishment appropriate to the discipline.