ASSISTANTSHIPS, HOURLY STUDENT APPOINTMENTS, OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT AND REGISTRATION

To nominate an individual holding one of these appointments to general membership on the graduate faculty, the Director of Graduate Studies should submit the standard materials submitted for nomination of a full, associate, or assistant professor (letter of nomination reflecting the vote of the field faculty, completed nomination card, curriculum vitae).

Note: Faculty members affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine who are concerned with graduate education are members of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences’ graduate faculty, but are not automatically general members of Cornell University’s graduate faculty. They may be appointed as general or minor members of the graduate faculty, following nomination procedures herein.

iv. Clinical Professor, Professor of the Practice, Senior Lecturer, Senior

Research Associate without a research doctorate, Senior Extension

Associate without a research doctorate, Instructor without a research doctorate, and Visiting Critic

To nominate an individual holding one of these appointments to general membership on the graduate faculty with the ability to chair doctoral and masters special committees, a field must conduct the equivalent of the research component of a tenure review. In addition to providing the materials necessary to nominate a full, associate, or assistant professor to general membership (letter of nomination, completed nomination card, curriculum vitae), the Director of Graduate Studies submits:

• the outcome of the field’s vote, with the vote stating explicitly that the faculty are evaluating whether the individuals’ research is comparable at least to that of tenured Cornell associate professors who are general members of the graduate faculty in the same field,

• a statement explaining the recommendation for membership, including a summary of the evidence that the individual’s research is comparable at least to that of tenured Cornell associate professors who are general members of the graduate faculty in the same field,

• a statement indicating that the individual’s supervision of graduate students will be an explicit job responsibility, making membership on special committee appropriate, and suitable documentary support.

Documentary support should include, at the minimum:

• letters of evaluation from at least two students, • a personal statement of research accomplishments and future plans, • at least three sample publications, and • at least five letters of evaluation—three from external referees selected by the field and two from current general members of the graduate field.

External letters from other Cornell review processes may be used for this purpose if they address the qualifications of the nominee to supervise graduate students and are dated within 5 years of the nomination for graduate faculty membership.