[La-cgs] [EXTERNAL SENDER] Re: Grad Course Faculty Qualifications

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Thanks to all that shared information on Chris’s question, as it was also helpful and timely for me. I would also like to ask a related question(s).  With regards to Graduate Faculty, what input do you have as Dean regarding their tenure/promotion or their “requirement” to teach/participate in graduate courses? Are the duties/responsibilities of a Graduate Faculty member outlined within the context of their primary faculty appointment and assigned and enforced only by their direct supervisor and School’s Dean?

Thanks – Angela

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LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans
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Chris,

I’m attaching the Graduate Faculty policy at UNO.  It does have criteria to be part of the graduate faculty related to degree held by the faculty member.  As a point of clarification, while graduate faculty teach graduate level courses, not all faculty who teach graduate courses are classified as graduate faculty.   We have some adjuncts who we certify to teach graduate courses but they do not hold graduate faculty status because of the other responsibilities those graduate faculty hold.  For example, we might determine someone lacks a terminal degree but they have sufficient work and professional experience to teach a graduate course in something like health care management but they are adjunct faculty and we aren’t going to make them graduate faculty since that would make them eligible to serve on dissertation committees.

I hope that helps and didn’t muddy the waters.  As the person who is working to address the qualifications of 55 faculty who SACSCOC off site review questioned, I would HIGHLY suggest you have a very clear policy and FOLLOW it.  They are pretty tough on people teaching grad classes without terminal degrees unless you have a ton of documented justification.

Nancy

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Great, thanks for the info Mary.

Chris

On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM Mary J Farmer-Kaiser <mary.farmer-kaiser at louisiana.edu<mailto:mary.farmer-kaiser at louisiana.edu>> wrote:
Hi Chris,

I don't believe there's a specific UL System policy, but I know there's a SACSCOC requirement. I'm not sure if this is the most up-to-date guidance, but this SACSCOC guidance document is one that we've used pretty regularly (enough that I have it bookmarked) when evaluating faculty credentials: https://sacscoc.org/app/uploads/2019/07/faculty-credentials.pdf.

Nancy at UNO would be a great resource if you need more info.

Mary

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Does anyone know what the UL System requirements are for faculty to teach a graduate-level course?  We have a factly member that wants to teach a 500-level graduate course and she has a M.S. degree and over 60 hours of PhD work, is just all but dissertation.

Chris

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