Recruiting and Hiring Instructors
Instructors are faculty with both a teaching and a service component to their workload. People who are teaching but not performing service should be appointed as Lecturers. A more complete description of the difference between instructors and lecturers may be found in the Instructor v. Lecturer Matrix (opens in Word).
Full-time Instructors
- General Process
- Letter of Offer Template: Full Time Instructor (opens in Word)
- MOU - Required for an Instructor Workload that Includes Research (opens in Word)
- Twelve Month Appointments - Additional Required Paragraph
Part-time Instructors
- General Process
- Letter of Offer Template: Part-time Instructor(opens in Word)
Related Forms and Procedures:
- Additional Job (opens in Word)
Use this letter to request an extra job or course. This letter must be signed by both the home department chair and the teaching department chair.
- Appointment Start and End Dates
- Background Check Information
- Cover Sheet for Offer Letter Packet - added by the Dean's office for full-time Instructors (opens in Word)
- Deadlines for Accepted Offer Letters and Requesting Late Approval
- Instructor FTE, Percent Time, and Salary Table
- Letter of Offer v. Reappointment Process for Instructors
- Nondiscrimination Statement for Position Announcements (opens in Word)
- Notary Publics Available on Campus
- Oath Requirements
- Overload Course (opens in Word) In a given semester, an overload course may be requested. This letter must be signed by both the home department chair and the teaching department chair.
- Procedures for Tenure Track Faculty and Instructors from the Department of Equal Opportunity
- Transition from Temporary to Rostered Appointments
- Voluntary Information (Ethnicity) Request Form (opens in Word)
