Visiting Faculty
Visiting Faculty are full-time or part-time faculty. Instructors are elected to terms of one year, or less, and may be re-elected.

Assistant Faculty
The first professorial rank for faculty who hold the terminally qualifying (usually doctoral) degree is Assistant Faculty. The basic qualification for this rank is evidence of potential as an independent scholar and teacher. Tenure-track assistant faculty are elected initially for fixed terms and may be reelected by the Board up to a limit of five years aggregate full-time service. During the fifth year of this probationary period, if not before, an assistant professor is considered for promotion and election without term (tenure).

Associate Faculty
Associate faculty are elected to this rank after a period in which they have demonstrated scholarly work and effective teaching that have earned them an acceptable level of national standing in their disciplines or professions. An individual who meets this standard may be elected initially as an Associate Faculty. Promotion to this rank from Assistant Faculty ordinarily is accompanied by an election without term (tenure). However, Associate Faculty may be elected with a specified term and serve a probationary period not to exceed the five-year period.

Faculty
The title Faculty is reserved for individuals who have achieved advanced standing among scholars in their fields throughout the academic world. Whether by internal promotion or initial election, Faculty ordinarily are elected without term (tenured).