Academic Affairs Policy Manual

Section 1: Faculty

1.01 Definition

The faculty of the University of Georgia consists of the corps of instruction and the administrative officers.

Source: Board of Regents Policy Manual § 302.01

University Statutes Article IV, Section 1.

1.01-1 Corps of Instruction

Full-time professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, senior 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. Persons holding adjunct appointments or other honorary titles shall not be considered to be members of the faculty.

Source: Board of Regents Policy Manual § 302.02

1.01-2 Administrators

In addition to the Corps of Instruction, the faculty will include the president, administrative and academic deans, registrar, librarian, chief fiscal officer, and such other full-time administrative officers designated as having ex officio faculty status. 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 (other than president) shall retain his/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 to which he or she has been appointed. An administrative officer having faculty status shall have all the responsibilities and privileges of faculty membership. Administrative officers shall be appointed by the president with the approval of the Board of Regents and shall hold office at the pleasure of the president.

Source: Board of Regents Policy Manual § 302.03

1.01-2.1 Procedures for Administrative Faculty Rank

Administrators who may receive consideration for administrative faculty rank, either tenure or non-tenure track, are: President, Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Vice and Associate Provosts, Associate Vice Presidents, Deans, Associate Deans and Assistant Deans of schools and colleges, and Directors, Associate Directors or Department Heads of instructional units.