3.2 - Types of Positions
Following are types of positions at Calvin College. Some of these include faculty enfranchisement. Other positions do not include enfranchisement.
3.2.1 - Tenure-Track Positions
A tenure-track position is a faculty position which will not be eliminated in the foreseeable future. A tenure-track position may be made non-tenure-track because of, inter alia, enrollment shifts or decline.
3.2.2 - Non-Tenure-Track Positions
A non-tenure-track position is one which may be eliminated in the foreseeable future. All positions not designated as teaching faculty positions are non-tenure-track. Faculty positions that are non-tenure-track positions may be made tenure-track because of, inter alia, enrollment shifts or increases.
3.2.2.1 - Teaching Positions
Positions for teaching faculty.
3.2.2.2 - Research Positions
Research Fellowships are for persons who do full-time research on the Calvin College campus for a limited time period. Persons who hold these positions are not members of the faculty. They are usually here because of the resources on this campus or because of funding designated for these positions. Such fellowships are created on occasion by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship and by the Governing Board of the H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies.
3.2.2.3 - Lectureship Positions
The position of lecturer is for persons who have a term or visiting appointment (a minimum of one semester) to Calvin and whose responsibilities are primarily lecturing. Normally these persons are not members of the teaching faculty.
3.2.2.4 - Part-Time Positions
Occasionally in some departments and frequently in some others, the need arises for more teachers than those who are appointed to tenure-track and non-tenure-track positions. Such departments may meet their teaching need with the appointment of persons to part-time positions. These positions arise because of one or more of the following: inability of departments to fill all of their allotted tenure-track or non-tenure-track positions, reduced-load appointments to tenure-track or non-tenure-track positions, leaves of absence, illness, specialty courses, unbalanced enrollments in fall versus spring, and the like. Persons who hold part-time positions are not members of the teaching faculty.
3.2.2.5 - Adjunct Positions
Adjunct positions are created when it is deemed desirable, as judged by the president upon the advice of the provost and Professional Status Committee, to maintain an institutional relationship with a given person or set of persons for a period of time. Persons holding these positions may or may not be paid, depending upon the nature of the relationship. Persons who hold these positions are not members of the teaching faculty and are not eligible for tenure status.
Within the college there may be adjunct positions in a department for persons from administrative offices or other academic departments. Such positions and appointments to them need the approval of the Professional Status Committee, the provost, and the president.
3.2.2.6 - Cooperating Staff Positions
Cooperating staff positions are positions created for persons who direct or coordinate programs with which Calvin College is affiliated. These positions exist for the purpose of coordinating these programs with the college program. Appointments to these positions are extended to persons by virtue of their positions in the affiliated programs. Persons who hold these positions are not members of the teaching faculty. An examples of a person holding such a position is the Director of the AuSable Institute of Environmental Studies.
