VCOM Faculty Handbook

Faculty Track Classifications

The faculty will be divided into the following classifications:

Academic Track Faculty, Full-Time Full-time academic track faculty may be biomedical, clinical, or research faculty employed by VCOM. All full time academic track faculty are responsible for teaching, research and scholarly activity, and service. The full-time academic track faculty member must meet the minimum requirement of 1,400 hours of their primary job duties being dedicated to education or research administration, VCOM student and/or resident education, research and scholarly activity, and to college or professional service. Full-time academic faculty fall in to two categories: 1. Full-time faculty who are directly employed by VCOM for 32 hours or greater per week; or 2. Full-time faculty who are directly employed by VCOM for academic duties less than 32 hours per week but who are employed by a VCOM affiliated research center or VCOM affiliated academic health center/practice and who are engaged in teaching, research and scholarly activity, and/or service for the remaining hours that bring the total time participating in teaching, research and scholarly activity, and service (including clinical service) to greater than 32 hours per week. Clinical faculty who are full-time with the College and who hold significant responsibility to VCOM for teaching, research and scholarly activity, and service, are considered clinical faculty but are classified as Academic Track. Full-time status is not granted to visiting faculty, contractual faculty, or part-time faculty who do not have collective full-time duties that contribute to the College. Faculty performance for all full-time academic track faculty is subject to annual review. The Provost, the Campus Dean, Associate Dean and the Discipline/Department Chair determine the specific duties for teaching, research and scholarly activity, and college service and perform the annual evaluations. All full-time academic track faculty have voting privileges at VCOM Faculty Assembly meetings and representation through the VCOM Faculty Senate, are eligible for tenure, and are eligible for VCOM benefits. Academic Track Faculty, Part-Time Part-time academic track faculty may be biomedical, clinical, or research faculty employed by VCOM. Part-time academic track faculty must provide significant teaching contributions to the academic program in order to qualify as part-time academic track faculty. Part-time academic track faculty: • Are those faculty who are employed directly by VCOM but whose services dedicated to teaching, research and scholarly activity, and service of VCOM students and residents are less than 32 hours per week. • Includes those faculty with emeritus status. Part-time academic track faculty have a written employment agreement with VCOM and are held responsible to an academic discipline and department to perform teaching duties. Part-time academic track faculty generally have limited responsibility for research, scholarly activity, and service to the College; however, must meet these obligations with sustained exceptional performance if seeking advancement in rank. The exception to the expectations for annual contributions would be those holding emeritus status. Part-time academic track faculty are paid by VCOM for their services provided; however, their employment does not include full-time benefits, as they are not working full-time for VCOM.

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