Extra-collegiate Extension or Public Service instructors who complete their terminal degree may be recommended for promotion to assistant professor by the department head with the approval of the director, dean, University Provost, the President, and the Board of Visitors. The rank of Lecturer is generally reserved for administrative and professional faculty appointments. A master's degree or significant professional experience is the minimum expectation for appointment to the administrative and professional faculty. Tenure cannot be awarded at this rank. Promotion for the administrative and professional faculty is usually recognized by changes in functional title rather than promotion in rank.
Appointments are renewable annually.
A person appointed to the special faculty rank of instructor in an academic department ordinarily assumes full responsibility for teaching undergraduate courses and generally has limited responsibility for other aspects of the standard faculty role, such as research or other scholarship, and service. Initial appointment is for one year. Tenure will not be awarded at this rank. A master's degree or significant professional experience is the minimum expectation for appointment as instructor. See Extra-Collegiate Instructor definition for treatment of promotion to assistant professor for Extension and Public Service faculty.