Adjunct faculty definition

Adjunct faculty means those nonadministrative instructors, counselors, and librarians who are employed without a continuing contract, whose teaching load does not exceed one-half time for two full semesters or three full quarters per calendar year.
Adjunct faculty means one who is employed to teach on a course-by-course or credit basis.
Adjunct faculty means persons appointed by the Board of Trustees to any of the professorial ranks for which they have the professional qualifications or the equivalent. Adjunct appointments are made for a specified term. Normally, the adjunct faculty's primary professional affiliation, if any, is outside the University, and compensation for services at the University is not a provision of the appointment.

Examples of Adjunct faculty in a sentence

  • Adjunct faculty members are eligible for promotion (but not tenure) and the relevant criteria are those for promotion of tenure-track faculty.

  • Adjunct faculty are defined by IPEDS as non-tenure-track positions where one has a temporary or auxiliary capacity to teach specific courses on a course-by-course basis.

  • Adjunct faculty shall be provided with the opportunity to utilize general common area office space on each campus in order to meet students and to prepare and store instructional materials.

  • Adjunct faculty are not eligible for tenure or for membership in the University Senate.

  • Adjunct faculty who are required by the appropriate manager, in consultation with the department chair, to attend committee meetings, department or school meetings, or participate in other District activities shall be compensated according to Salary Schedule C.


More Definitions of Adjunct faculty

Adjunct faculty means all members of the Faculty who hold part-time faculty appointments that are defined one semester at a time. Adjunct faculty members are hired by departments or Schools on a per-course basis. Their primary obligation is teaching the course(s) for which they are hired; however, Adjunct Faculty are expected to hold office hours to be available to their students outside of class.
Adjunct faculty means part-time faculty who are not full-time employees of the institution.
Adjunct faculty means professional staff members of businesses, industries and other agencies and organizations who are appointed by institutions and schools on a part-time basis to carry out instructional, research or public service functions.
Adjunct faculty. The term adjunct faculty as used in this Agreement refers to instructional appointments made by the administration of a CCSNH College. Adjunct faculty appointments and assignments are made on a semester by semester basis and are limited in duration to the particular semester for which the adjunct faculty is appointed. Adjunct faculty are not covered by the terms of this Agreement.
Adjunct faculty means an individual who has been issued a quarterly appointment notice and compensated in accordance with the adjunct faculty salary schedule in Section 17.7.3 of the Agreement. Such appointments carry no expectation of continued employment and are non-tenurable. Adjunct faculty is referenced in law as “part-time” and have all the rights, responsibilities and protections stated therein. The specific provisions for Adjunct faculty are contained in Article 17 of this Agreement. With the exception of class cancellation, termination prior to the end of the quarter shall be for just cause and with due process. Full-time tenured and probationary faculty may also perform extra-contractual work as adjuncts, but will accrue only those benefits as provided by law and/or for specific provisions of this Agreement.
Adjunct faculty refers to a person who is not employed by the university in a regular position, but who is given a temporary appointment without benefits, or who is given a courtesy appointment with or without a specific teaching/research assignment.
Adjunct faculty refers to a temporary faculty member whose compensation basis is hourly rather than annually.