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This page describes the process for hiring 12-month professional-track research faculty only. See also EVPP: Hiring Research Faculty. For guidance on hiring 9-month professional-track faculty, go to COE: Hiring Professional Track Faculty.

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Research faculty must be 100% FTE unless an exception is granted by the Dean, APS, and VPR, which requires submission of justification for the reduced appointment.

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For information about the College’s initiative to hire research faculty, see COE Research Faculty Initiative.

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For general information about research faculty, see COE: About Research Faculty.

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Managing research faculty appointments

 All faculty positions, including those of 12-month research faculty regardless of funding source, have their primary administrative home in an academic department. Some but not all research faculty also have an 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

26-accounts

non-26-accounts (e.g. Instructional) 

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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Offer letters

Contracts for Research faculty are normally for one year only (September 1-August 31), but can be longer if determined by the Dean to be in the best interest of the institution.

Note that every commitment of funding (relocation, early start date, TA/GRA, etc.) must be captured in both the offer letter and Section 2 Funding Commitments of the PAR. For assistance with wording of non-standard offer items not included in the EVPP template, please contact COE Faculty Affairs.

Who writes professional track offer letters?

Offer letters for research faculty hires are drafted by the hiring departments, in collaboration with any joint hiring departments.  Please contact COE Faculty Affairs with any questions.

Where do I find offer letter templates?

In order to ensure the most current template is being used, each offer letter should be drafted based on a newly-downloaded template for the appropriate hire type based on the Provost's Office current template at FA/APS ServiceNow Portal > Knowledge (top right corner) > FA/APS Knowledge Articles (top left corner) > Offer Letter Templates > Departmentalized CSUs.

What is the offer letter process?

A draft of the offer letter, including a "DRAFT" watermark on each page, should be included in the PAR packet. The draft offer letter does not represent a promise of employment or any other commitment.

Once the PAR is final-approved by the Dean, COE Faculty Affairs will email the PAR packet signed by the Dean to the department Administrative Manager, indicating that the PAR has been approved. When this email indicating approval has been received, the department can send an offer letter to the candidate. However, all PAR information is thoroughly reviewed in the Provost’s Office to ensure compliance, and if errors are found, corrections will still need to be made even if the contract has been signed by the faculty candidate.

After the offer letter has been signed by the candidate, the Administrative Manager should upload the signed letter to the same Faculty Affairs & Academic Personnel Services Portal help ticket on which they submitted the PAR. Once APS has processed the signed offer letter, they will push the hire to Workday.

The department is responsible for maintaining research faculty personnel files, including PARs and offer letters.

Can I share a draft of the offer letter with the candidate prior to PAR final approval?

The department may, if they wish, share the draft with the candidate. It must be clearly indicated via watermark that the copy is a draft, and any associated correspondence must explicitly state that the draft is “pending final modifications and approval of the Dean and Provost.” The draft offer letter should not be signed by anyone, as it does not represent a contract. 

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