visiting status
In accordance with the CBA (section 22.5), the category of visiting faculty is open to individuals who are distinguished practitioners or specialists. Visiting faculty may teach no more than one-half (50%) of the full-time teaching load.

Part-time faculty with visiting status are appointed with assigned duties limited to studio, lecture or other class instruction and related contact with students enrolled in the courses taught. Visiting faculty are expected to attend such departmental, school, or general faculty meetings as necessary for the fulfillment of their teaching responsibilities.

adjunct status
The status of an adjunct faculty member is not contingent on length of service alone, but on the recognition by the department/school of the specific skills/knowledge of the faculty member, and the additional services he and she will provide in response to the established needs of the department/school. A person whose title is modified by the word adjunct is one who is willing to contribute part-time to the academic program but whose primary responsibility is outside the department and Institute. Appointment to the adjunct faculty is normally for an experienced part-time faculty member whose assigned duties, in addition to teaching, may include participating in admissions recruiting events, academic advising of students other than those in the instructor’s assigned classes and/or direction of programs within a department or the school and other departmental or Institute-wide committee/ advisory work.

The modifier adjunct is applicable only to professorial titles. The academic qualifications of individuals appointed to adjunct professorships are comparable to those of full-time faculty members.

administrators with part-time faculty rank
An individual may be engaged by the Institute to serve in an administrative capacity and may simultaneously be offered part-time faculty status. Members of the part-time faculty who are offered an administrative position in the Institute will retain their academic rank and previous status.

Subject to provisions stated in the CBA, all current chairs who are part-time faculty will become full-time faculty upon their return to the faculty, and all new chairs appointed 1999/2000 or beyond who are part-time faculty members and have served a minimum of six years as chair will become full-time faculty upon their return to the faculty.