The Professor of Practice position is a non-tenure track designation, with a majority proportion of time designated as teaching. The position is not subject to the 7-year limitation on length of service. Persons eligible for promotion to the ranks of Associate Professor of Practice and Professor of Practice must have been approved for inclusion in the Professor of Practice ranks by their department, the College of Education and Human Sciences and the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Eligibility for promotion to Associate Professor of Practice and Professor of Practice is determined by the following expectations:
- Excellence in academic or professional instruction and mentoring of students
- Advancement of scholarship in the field and/or scholarship of teaching and learning
- Leadership in providing service advancing the field of teaching and learning