Texas A&M University-Commerce

Faculty Handbook
Updated November 2004


  Table of Contents
Provost's Office
A&M-Commerce

 

Section III
Rank and Titles

1. Tenure or Tenure-Track: professor, association professor, assistant professor and instructor.

2. Non-Tenure Track: lecturer, clinical instructor, visiting professor, visiting instructor, visiting artist and other non-standard titles may be used in addition to those listed above. These titles are used to describe full- or part-time appointment of individuals whose employment, credentials, or duties are special and not necessarily the same as regular faculty, i.e., teaching, scholarship and service. These appointments may be renewable on a semester or year-to-year basis or for a specified period. Conditions of employment and length of the appointment should be specified in writing.