Table of Contents

Section 1: Mission, History, and General Organization

Section 2: Governance

Section 3: Faculty Contracts, Ranks, Search Procedures, and Benefits

Section 4: Faculty Rights, Responsibilities, and Policies

Section 5: Faculty Evaluation Procedures

Section 6: Promotion and Tenure Procedures

Section 7: Faculty Titles, Awards, and Other Policies and Services of Interest to the Faculty

Appendices

Section 3: Faculty COntracts, Ranks, Search Procedures, and Benefits

3.4  Visiting Ranks   

Absent prior or concurrent faculty rank elsewhere, full-time temporary appointments are made at the rank of Visiting Instructor (no terminal scholarly degree) or Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Associate Professor, Visiting Professor (terminal scholarly degree in-hand), and Visiting Artist-in-Residence. Regardless of rank, appointments may be for teaching only, or for a combination of teaching and other contractually assigned duties.  Minimum qualifications for any teaching appointment, as specified by the Criteria for Accreditation of the Commission on Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, is a masters degree and at least 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline.  Appointments are made either for one semester or for one academic year.  Reappointment is permissible up to a maximum cumulative total of three years.  Tenure cannot be awarded at these ranks.