Supporting (S) Faculty Guidelines
Definition of Supporting Faculty
A faculty member will be classified as a supporting faculty member if the person:
• is considered to have a short-term, ad hoc, appointment, for one term or one
academic year at a time without the expectation of continuation; this includes, but
not limited to, adjunct and visiting appointments;
• has primary responsibilities that are limited to teaching courses as specified by
the respective department chair; this may include conducting instruction in a
face-to-face classroom, online, or via interactive television and maintaining office
hours or otherwise communicating with students outside of class.
Maintenance of Supporting Status
A supporting faculty member will be reviewed at the completion of each term in which
the person has taught to ensure that the teaching performance, including class
attendance, the availability of office hours, the frequency, appropriateness and quality of
student communications, the assessment of learning outcomes, etc., is at the quality
level expected. Should it be determined that the expected level of teaching performance
quality had not been achieved, the faculty member may be assigned developmental
activities to improve the person’s teaching performance and enable the hiring of the
individual for future teaching assignments.