Visiting Officers

Officers of Instruction

Instructional appointments can be made in a visiting capacity. Appointments as visiting faculty are given to persons who are temporarily offering instruction at the University while on leave from another institution. Appointments may be made in the grades of visiting professor, visiting associate professor and visiting assistant professor, depending on the qualifications of the officer. Appointments in these ranks are for full-time or part-time service for a stated term of one year or less. These appointments are renewable but may not be held for more than two consecutive years without the prior permission of the Provost.

Clinical Faculty

Visiting appointments are made in the grades of visiting professor of clinical (department), visiting associate professor of clinical (department), and visiting assistant professor of clinical (department), depending on the officer’s clinical credentials. Appointments in these ranks are for full-time or part-time service for a stated term of one year or less. These appointments are renewable but may not be held for more than two consecutive years without the prior permission of the Provost.

Officers of Research

Appointments as professional officers of research may also be made, as appropriate, in a visiting capacity. Visiting officers of research have an affiliation with another institution from which they are temporarily on leave while working at the University on projects of common interest with members of the faculty or research staff. Appointments may be made as visiting senior research scientist/scholar, visiting research scientist/scholar, and visiting associate research scientist/scholar, in accordance with the defined qualifications of those grades. Normally, visiting officers are given titles that correspond to the ranks they hold at their home institution. Visiting appointments may be made for full- or part-time service for periods of up to one year and are renewable for up to a total of two consecutive years. Further extension of these appointments requires the prior permission of the Provost.