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Clinical faculty at Kennesaw State University are educator-practitioners in professional departments who have a background in their disciplinary area and who practice the discipline in the work setting. The following clinical ranks are recognized at KSU: Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, and Clinical Professor. The goal of these positions is to enhance the academic and professional development of students in the mission of the institution primarily in the performance areas of teaching and professional service. Clinical faculty must meet various discipline specific standards for professional employability that facilitate teaching in a professional setting. Clinical faculty maintain a balance that is different from that of tenure track faculty regarding their workload model and expectations. Unless otherwise set forth in the Faculty Performance Agreement (FPA), clinical faculty generally spend less time engaged in scholarship and creativity activity. Clinical faculty are typically making contributions in clinical, educational, lab, industry, and/or professional settings on University, college, department committees, and local, regional, and national professional organizations that have a professional, applied focus.
The holder of a non-tenure track clinical faculty position with professorial rank is not eligible for consideration for the award of tenure or probationary credit toward tenure. Non-tenure track clinical faculty members may apply for a declared, open tenure track faculty position and be considered through the normal search and screening process. Consistent with BoR Policy (USG Academic & Student Affairs Handbook 4.1), administrative transfers from a tenure track faculty position with professorial rank to a non-tenure track faculty position with professorial rank require the approval of the department chair, dean, Provost, and President. The BoR request form to convert a tenure track position to a non-tenure track position is on the KSU Faculty Affairs webpage.
Clinical faculty must hold, or be eligible to obtain, as applicable, board or other certification in the profession/discipline in which the individual will provide clinical, educational, industry, and/or professional service. Exceptions must be approved by the department chair, dean, and Provost, prior to appointment.
A department must receive approval from the dean and Provost to become a clinical faculty appointment and promotion department. Departments and colleges with approval for clinical faculty must incorporate into their guidelines the criteria for the promotion review of clinical faculty. Departments and colleges may also establish an optional third-year review for non-tenure track clinical faculty to provide feedback for an optional promotion review. As indicated in the KSU Faculty Handbook Section 3.1 (Introduction), establishment and revision to guidelines must be approved by the full-time permanent faculty in the department or college, as appropriate, the department chair (for department guidelines), the College P&T Committee, the dean, and Provost.
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