The Academic Support Staff

Members of the Academic Support Staff include many persons who participate in the teaching and research programs of SAS, but who are not eligible for appointment to the Standing or Associated Faculty. Each appointment to the Academic Support Staff is for a term of years and is without tenure or tenure significance. The Academic Support Staff consists of three distinct types of appointment that require the following approvals. Senior Lecturers, Senior Lecturers in Foreign Languages, Lecturers in Foreign Languages appointed beyond the third consecutive year and Artists-in-Residence require review by the department, the Dean, and the Provost's Staff Conference. The second group (Lecturer, Lecturer in Foreign Languages (for appointment through the third year), Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Investigator, Research Associate, Senior Fellow, and Visiting Scholar) requires review by the department and approval by the Dean. The most junior group (Teaching Assistant, Research Fellow, and Research Assistant) requires only approval by the department. Documentation of affirmative action procedures is required for appointments as Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Lecturer, Artist-in-Residence, and Research Associate.

ALL ACADEMIC SUPPORT STAFF POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Senior Lecturers are long-term members of the Academic Support Staff who perform specialized instructional services that cannot be provided by members of the Standing Faculty. Persons recommended for an appointment as a Senior Lecturer must have previously completed four years of full-time service as a Lecturer (see Section V.E.1.). No one who has previously been a member of the Standing Faculty may be appointed to the rank of Senior Lecturer. Appointments to the rank of Senior Lecturer are for periods of no more than four years, but successive appointments are allowed. Continued reappointments are expected provided the individual maintains the level of his or her professional performance and provided that the academic need for services exists. The total number of Senior Lecturers in SAS cannot exceed three percent of the total number of Standing Faculty at any one time (this is a limit of about 14 Senior Lecturers).

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Foreign language instructors may be appointed to regular full-time lecturer positions (Section V.E.1.) for a period of at most three consecutive years, except where additional appointments--not to exceed six consecutive years--are approved by the Provost. The regular lecturer position will be the most suitable position for many language instructors. However, in a limited number of cases a longer period of service may be desirable. In such cases, the position of Lecturer in Foreign Languages is available. This is a career position with the possibility of continuing reappointments according to the procedures described in this document.

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The position of Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages is intended to recognize and encourage outstanding performance in both language pedagogy and language research and scholarship. Language teachers employed as Lecturers in Foreign Languages are eligible for appointment as Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages at the end of their eighth year of service or subsequently. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in teaching, important contributions in curriculum development and supervision, and professional accomplishment in the wider community of language teaching professionals.

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Responsibility for the initiation of proposals for appointment or reappointment to the ranks of Lecturer, Postdoctoral Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Investigator, Research Associate, Senior Fellow, and Visiting Scholar lies with the department and with the department chair. Approval of the Dean will be given only after the Dean is convinced that the resources specified on the request form are available from grants, the department, or SAS.

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The positions of Teaching Assistant, Teaching Fellow, Research Fellow, and Research Assistant are limited to persons registered in the graduate programs of SAS. Such appointments are for one year or less, but may be renewed. Departments may place limits on the length of time that students are permitted to serve in these ranks. Although the approval of the Dean is not required to make these appointments, it is the responsibility of the department Chair to ensure that necessary funding is available for all appointments made.

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