The faculty consists of the corps of instruction and the administrative officers. Full-time professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers and teaching personnel with such other titles as may be approved by the Board, shall be the Corps of Instruction. Full-time research and extension personnel and duly certified librarians will be included in the Corps of Instruction on the basis of comparable training. A faculty member who has academic rank and rights of tenure in the Corps of Instruction and who accepts an appointment to an administrative office shall retain his or her academic rank and rights of tenure as an ex officio member of the Corps of Instruction but shall have no rights of tenure in the administrative office. An administrative officer having faculty status shall have all the responsibilities and privileges of faculty membership.
Some administrative faculty have faculty rank and are on a tenure track.
Nontenure track status may be granted to administrative faculty with rank, faculty in the Learning Support Department, and research faculty with approval of the Board of Regents. The mission statement for Kennesaw State University that was approved by the Board of Regents appears below. In an effort to promote consistency across institutions within each of these four classifications and to differentiate missions better among the classifications, a substantial portion of each institution's official mission statement was required to be the same for all institutions in that classification. The first four statements outlined in bullet format in KSU's mission statement are common to all 34 institutions in the University System of Georgia. The second five statements outlined in bullet format contain the required standard wording for all state universities.