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. Approval of the above definitions means that all service at the instructor rank is disregarded if the person is later appointed to a tenure-track position. Their valuable and often lengthy service to Virginia Tech should be recognized by fair and equitable treatment and inclusion in the life and decision-making of the department where appropriate.