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Outline of Faculty Appointment Categories
Primarily, faculty are appointed at SMU into Standing, Practice, Support and Associated Faculty categories.
Standing Faculty
The essential requisite for membership in the Standing Faculty is a demonstrated commitment to both the advancement and the communication of knowledge. The Standing Faculty is composed of members with tenure, or tenure track status. Ranks in Standing Faculty are: Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor.
Appointees will have completed the final earned degree and/or other professional certification relevant to their discipline.
An Assistant Professor in the final stages of completion of his/her doctorate is appointed conditional upon attainment of Ph.D.
Ideal Standing Faculty candidates are those who:
- demonstrate significant achievements and potential in research
- infuse and invigorate their teaching with their research
- actively expand their quality international research networks and outputs
Practice Faculty
Consists of full-time Practice Professors, Practice Associate Professors and Practice Assistant Professors. They staff courses with substantial professional, skill-based or pedagogical requirements, in particular courses such as: leadership, negotiation, communication, deal structuring, tax accounting, auditing, and information systems related. It is normally expected that appointees to Practice Faculty will have completed the final earned degree and/or other professional certification relevant to their field.
Appointments to the Practice Faculty are initially for periods up to three years. Subject to review and continuous improvement, appointees may be re-appointed on a number of re-appointment cycles.
Ideal Practice Faculty candidates are those who:
- hold well regarded Doctorates or the final earned degree and/or professional certification relevant to their discipline/field
- bring with them a practice career of at least 2 - 3 years within the field close to the discipline area they seek appointment to
- effectively transport the classroom into the contemporary business world
- continue to be research active and productive within their professional and scholarly domains
- demonstrate pedagogical mastery relevant to their academic domain, or in the case of Assistant Practice Professors, the promise to do so
Support Faculty
Appointed full time as Lecturers/Senior Lecturers and are scholars or persons who do not possess the normal academic credentials outlined for Standing or Practice Faculties, but who have relevant skills or professional experience necessary to provide valuable instructional services. Appointments are for limited terms.
Associated Faculty
Have a varied and important role in the research, teaching & professional programmes of SMU. They do not acquire tenure, however, but are appointed on various term appointments, some with options for renewal. Associated Faculty includes visitors and adjuncts.
[a] Visiting Faculty
Normally a full-time faculty member on leave from their home institution with which they are affiliated.
A number of visiting faculty will visit SMU for a period of summer teaching, or for a semester, or two, during the standard nine month academic year. Short term visiting appointments may be renewable from one year to the next where the teaching schedule and student demand for courses warrants and where the quality of the visiting faculty meets SMU standards.
Appointments to Visiting Faculty on a full time basis are for periods up to two years, beyond which there is normally no further renewal on a continous full time basis.
In some cases, executive education opportunities may be negotiated for visiting faculty where possible.
[b] Adjunct Faculty are members whose primary careers are outside the University. Such persons may be appointed to part-time academic status at SMU while continuing their principal associations or careers elsewhere. They normally will engage in teaching courses for degree credit.
Academic ranks in the Adjunct Faculty are: Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Adjunct Lecturer.
Adjunct faculty typically hold a relevant Ph.D. and the necessary professional certification and membership where required. They are able to teach during week days and, for the most part, are able to commit to a 15-week teaching term unless they are contracted for shorter periods of summer teaching, etc.
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