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The key distinction is evidence of engagement with the academic enterprise through teaching, mentorship, or supervision of students at some level. For information on research staff, see COE: Research Staff and Research Affiliates. Research faculty must submit annual faculty reports, whereas research staff are evaluated as staff.

Research faculty titles

See EVPP: Research Faculty Titles.

Title

Job Code

Description

Research Professor

0017

Research accomplishments and scholarly credentials equivalent to that of a full professor, including supervision of research programs/projects as a principal investigator.

Research Associate Professor

0027

Research accomplishments and scholarly credentials equivalent to that of an established assistant professor or a new associate professor. The individual must have an established record as a mature, independent researcher.

Research Assistant Professor

0037

Expected to show the potential to develop an independent research program that represents a significant portion of their activity and also be involved in activities traditionally thought of as professorial.

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Research faculty in Workday

  • Sup org: In most cases, research faculty jobs in Workday should be in the JM sup org of their home academic department chair.

  • Appointment dates

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  • : Research faculty are 12-month positions and use appointment dates of September 1-August 31. See more on dates associated with different types of faculty positions at COE: Dates for Faculty Employment Changes.

  • FTE: Research Faculty positions should be 100% FTE. Exceptions are at the discretion of EVPP/VPR and must be approved in advance.

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Contract requirements

Active contracts are required for research faculty, as they are for all professional-track faculty including those in research faculty titles. For more information on professional-track contracts, see COE: Contracts - Professional-Track Faculty. For guidance on the administrative processes required to manage contracts, see COE: Managing Professional Track Faculty in Workday.

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nameManaging research faculty appointments
Managing research faculty appointments

Research faculty who work in a COE research center

 All faculty positions live , including those of 12-month research faculty regardless of funding source, have their primary administrative home in an academic department, and . Some but not all research faculty will also have an appointment in an academic department. The affiliation with a research center. For research faculty who work in a COE research center, the table below summarizes the distribution of administrative responsibilities between the academic department and the research center.

Action

Processed by Research Center

Processed by Academic Department

Interfolio posting

X

Recruitment: Advertising, evaluating and communicating with applicants, campus visit arrangements and vendor payments, etc.

X

PAR

X

Offer letter

X - in collaboration with research center and COE Faculty Affairs

Contract management (renewal, Workday upload, etc.)

X

Ad-hoc costing changes in Workday

X

HR processes in Workday (Data Changes, Termination, etc.)

X

Performance appraisals

X - in collaboration with research center

Assignment of merit

X - in collaboration with research center

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