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Appendix G: Graduate Faculty Membership & Term MembershipGraduate Faculty MembershipMembership on the graduate faculty is granted to an individual who
Graduate Faculty membership is automatic for tenure-track faculty at the point the hire is recorded in the Provost’s Office. A member of the graduate faculty may chair or serve as a member on a POS committee of students pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees. The graduate faculty also includes the president, the provost, vice provosts and associate provosts, the Dean of the Graduate College, deans and associate deans of the other eight colleges, the dean of library services, and the directors and associate directors of research institutes. Faculty with the rank of senior lecturer and senior clinician are eligible for graduate faculty membership if they meet all qualifications of graduate faculty with the exception of a tenure track appointment. The Graduate Faculty Term Membership Committee must approve recommendations for membership, and may recommend term membership in lieu of full membership. Other nontenure-track faculty or term graduate faculty who successfully complete the university promotion and tenure process may qualify for membership in the graduate faculty. Collaborators on contract with Iowa State University are eligible for graduate faculty membership if they go through the promotion and tenure process and if their contract specifies that they must follow university policy guidelines. Recommendations for membership must be approved by the Graduate Faculty Term Membership Committee. Graduate Faculty Term MembershipA department chair or other member of the graduate faculty may nominate a non-tenure track faculty at ISU, who otherwise meets the requirements for graduate faculty membership, for Graduate Faculty Term Membership. The nominee should have the highest degree of equivalent in his/her field and should hold a lecturer, senior lecturer, clinician, senior clinician, affiliate, temporary, visiting, adjunct, or collaborator status at ISU during the proposed period of term membership. Term membership is granted for specific activities and such activities should be requested explicitly. Possible activities are teaching graduate courses, serving on POS (Program of Study) committees of masters and Ph.D. students, and other activities that are relevant to the program that the candidate is being nominated for. A term member may also co-chair a master's or doctoral POS Committee, but he/she may not individually chair a POS committee. Nominations for up to five years for Graduate Faculty Term Membership may be made to the Graduate College at any time of the year. While most graduate faculty term membership nominations are handled administratively in the Graduate College, a membership committee will review applications when requested by the Gradaute College. The chair of the Graduate Council will appoint three Graduate Council members to serve on an ad-hoc basis to review Graduate Faculty Term Membership applications that require further claification beyond the normal administrative review of the Graduate College. Every nomination consists of the form for Nomination for Graduate Faculty Term Membership completed by the department chair (available as a form under the group header "Nomination Forms for Graduate Faculty" on the Graduate College Web site), a current curriculum vita of the nominee, and a letter of support for the nominee from the department chair or graduate faculty appointed by the department chair. This letter should detail how the candidate's expertise will contribute to the department so that the justification for the requested activities is clear. A candidate, who has served for a period of 10 consecutive years as Term Graduate Faculty, may also be recommended for a continuous Graduate Faculty Term Membership. The above procedure can also be used by the department chair to recommend a candidate for renewal of the Graduate Faculty Term Membership. Nonmembers of the Graduate FacultyGraduate LecturerA graduate lecturer must hold current faculty status at Iowa State University and have obtained at least a master’s degree. Although not a member of the graduate faculty, a graduate lecturer is permitted to teach specified courses at the graduate level. Since a graduate lecturer does not supervise students working toward advanced degrees, he/she cannot serve as an official member of a POS Committee. A request for a staff member to be designated a graduate lecturer should be initiated by the department chair and submitted to the Dean of the Graduate College after approval by the respective college dean. These requests should be supported by evidence of the individual’s academic qualifications (i.e., curriculum vitae), the name(s) of the graduate course(s) to be taught, and a justification for the request. The Dean of the Graduate College may appoint a graduate lecturer for a period of up to one year. Requests for reappointment should be directed to the Graduate College. Appropriate evidence of continuing need should accompany these requests, along with course(s) to be taught, and justification for the request. Requests are reviewed and approved by the Dean of the Graduate College. Graduate lectureship is not intended as a mechanism for staffing graduate courses for prolonged periods of time. Previous: Appendix F - Dual-Listed Courses or Table of Contents |
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