Faculty Tracks, Appointment Types, Review and Promotion Materials 

Faculty Tracks and Appointments Types

There are seven different faculty designations at UMSI, these are:

1. Tenure Track Faculty

2. Research Professor or Scientist Track Faculty

3. Clinical Track Faculty

4. Lecturer Track Faculty

5. Adjunct Track Faculty (non-tenure) 

6. Emeritus Faculty 

7. Courtesy (joint) Faculty Appointments

Promotion Materials

Each type of faculty appointment has rules and regulations guiding appointment. For those in the tenure, research, clinical, and lecturer tracks, there are additional policies regarding tenure and/ or promotion. These are available on the individual pages.

Faculty Annual Review (FAR) 

The Faculty Annual Review (FAR) Materials are all found on the FAR page but can also be linked to above from the individual pages. 

The Tenure Clock

When a non-tenured tenure track faculty member joins UMSI, two clocks begin to run. One is the University-wide tenure clock, the other is the UMSI tenure clock.

University-wide Tenure Clock: The maximum probationary period of non-tenured Tenure Track faculty consists of service with the University for a total of 10 years in the rank at the level of assistant professor or higher (SPG 201.13:Rules Concerning Regents’ Bylaw 5.09, Tenure, Tenure Review, and Joint or Partial Tenure Appointments). The University views the ten years as a deadline within which the University must either grant tenure to, or terminate, a tenure track faculty member. Except in extraordinary cases,  the decision about tenure for a faculty member must be made no later than the end of the faculty member's ninth year on the University-wide tenure clock.  

UMSI Tenure Clock: UMSI generally reviews non-tenured faculty members for tenure in the sixth year of the tenure probationary period. This normative time to tenure review is well within the maximum 10-year period allowed by the university.  Those who are not ready for a promotion review for tenure during the sixth or seventh year of the probationary period may ask for an extension that is within the University’s ten-year maximum tenure clock. The request will be reviewed for approval by the Dean.