Teaching faculty without the terminal degree appropriate to their field normally hold the title of instructor. Appointments to this rank are for a stated term of service. This title is normally used for a scholar or artist appointed under special conditions. A lecturer may or may not hold a terminal degree or be a candidate for it. In the arts, the title artist in residence is often used instead of lecturer.
Appointment is for a specified time, up to a year.
Qualifications are generally comparable to those for appointment at the corresponding tenure-track rank and compensation will be determined by the relevant dean. The rank to which term faculty are appointed will range from instructor to professor, as appropriate. In the latter case, the visiting faculty member is assigned to a school over and above the number of tenured positions in the staffing plan of the school. Qualifications are generally comparable to those for appointment at the corresponding tenure-track rank and compensation will be determined by the relevant dean. Visiting faculty will be appointed at the appropriate rank from instructor through professor.