3.10.1 - General Expectations for the Non-Tenure Track Lecturer Faculty Ranks

The following non-tenure track lecturer faculty ranks are recognized at KSU: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer. Faculty in lecturer ranks maintain a balance that is different from that of tenure-track faculty regarding their workload model and expectations.

BoR Policy 8.3.8.3 discourages institutions from initial hiring at the senior lecturer and principal lecturer levels. Therefore, initial hiring at the level of senior lecturer or principal lecturer is reserved for those individuals with extensive experience and accomplishments in higher education or corporate settings. Lecturers, senior lecturers, and principal lecturers are not eligible for the award of tenure.

In most cases, a lecturer’s, senior lecturer’s, or principal lecturer’s primary responsibility is instructional (i.e., teaching, labs, supervision, clinicals, etc.) and therefore, is expected to be a highly effective teacher. In most cases, those responsibilities will primarily be devoted to teaching multiple sections of the same undergraduate courses. The heavy teaching load of such individuals constitutes a full workload and offsets the absence of a full range of regular faculty responsibilities that normally rounds out the typical full undergraduate faculty workload at KSU. In rare cases, the responsibilities assigned to a lecturer, senior lecturer, or principal lecturer may be individualized and differ from the typical lecturer, senior lecturer, or principal lecturer workload described above. In such cases, the responsibilities must be specified in the FPA.

Unless otherwise set forth in the Faculty Performance Agreement (FPA), there are no expectations for scholarship. Service responsibilities may be limited to the minimum necessary to successfully teach their assigned courses (e.g., attendance at relevant department meetings and participation on appropriate department committees).