Approved April 17, 2008

Responsibilities of the MSUB Graduate Faculty typically includes some combination of the following, depending upon the individual faculty member鈥檚 qualifications and role in graduate education:

  1. Teaching graduate-level courses.
  2. Providing advising, and/or direction to graduate students, including serving as committee member (including external member) or major advisor of Master theses, projects, and internships.
  3. Participating in graduate curriculum development, graduate policy development, program evaluation, and/or institutional planning and development.
  4. Serving on MSUB Graduate Committee, if selected by their respective College.

Qualifications:  Qualifications for and appointment to the Graduate Faculty will be determined by MSU-B departments and/or programs, based on programmatic needs and standards as articulated in the DRTC guidelines.  Each department and/or program will establish a process for appointing and reviewing the ongoing status of graduate faculty members, including non-tenure track and part-time faculty members.  The Office of Graduate Studies will collect programmatic and departmental guidelines once they have been created.

Appointment Process:  An initial determination regarding graduate faculty membership will be made at the time a tenure-track faculty member is hired, identifying the role the new faculty member will play in graduate education.  Each review through the tenure year will include a determination of continuing graduate faculty status based on the faculty member鈥檚 position description or duties. 

Continuing Graduate Faculty status for tenured faculty members should be made at the time of the post-tenure review by the department or program.

Membership in the Graduate Faculty for individuals holding special appointments (see CBA 7.130 for types of appointments) will be reviewed yearly.  The specific responsibilities for each individual holding a special appointment will be made by the department and/or program, reflecting programmatic needs and the faculty member鈥檚 qualifications.

Catalog Information:  To enable the university to publish in the graduate catalog a list of Graduate Faculty members, each department/program will send a list of members to the Graduate Studies office by October 15 of each academic year.