Section 5: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Policies

5.2.6 Adjunct Faculty

Individuals who provide uncompensated or part-time compensated service to the instructional and/or research programs of the university may be appointed to adjunct faculty positions. As with all other non-tenure-track faculty appointments, the provost will issue letters of appointment to adjunct faculty members.

Adjunct faculty originate from one of two sources:

1.  university staff and
   
   
2. individuals external to the university.

Staff exempt employees with appropriate expertise who, on occasion, provide instruction or participate in research may hold adjunct faculty positions.

The same faculty credentials required for appointment to professorial ranks are required for adjunct faculty appointments. Adjunct faculty members who hold graduate faculty status may serve on graduate committees, serve as program directors, supervise clinical experiences, or assume other responsibilities consistent with university, academic unit, and departmental/center policies.

Although uncompensated adjunct faculty members are not employees of the university, they are subject university policies as a condition of receiving and retaining this honorary appointment.