3 | Updated October 2019
Graduate Faculty Criteria and Application Procedures
University faculty members eligible for membership in the graduate faculty (“eligible faculty”) are those
holding a primary or adjunct appointment as an Officer of Instruction, Officer of Research, Officer of
Extension, Officer of the Libraries, or Clinical Faculty at the rank of Professor, Associate Professor,
Assistant Professor, or Senior Lecturer. Emeriti faculty who were members of the Graduate Faculty when
they became emeriti are also eligible.
Individuals may become members of the Graduate College by application to the Dean of the Graduate
College upon or following initial tenure track, research, clinical, extension or library faculty appointment
providing the following criteria are met:
a. Candidates must hold the highest academic degree in their field or have earned unusual
professional distinction
b. Research and scholarship-based applicants must show evidence of competent and
sustained scholarship and/or research appropriate to the discipline. Practitioner-based
applicants must show that they hold licensure and/or credentials as appropriate and
demonstrate excellence and leadership in their practice.
Application materials consist of the following:
1. A completed application form with signatures (attached)
2. A brief explanation of your current and anticipated role in graduate education in your department
and/or other UVM departments or programs
3. Letter of support for graduate faculty status from your department chair (or equivalent) supporting
the nomination and commenting
on your prior experience with and anticipated role in graduate
education, and on your effectiveness in scholarly work
4. An updated curriculum vitae that includes the following information:
a. For Research and Scholarship-Based Applicants:
Name and title at UVM
Educational and employment history
Membership on thesis/dissertation committees within the last ten years
Graduate course instruction within the last ten years
Other service to graduate education within the last ten years
Scholarly activities within the last ten years, including:
Published book, monograph, or other extended work (e.g. musical
composition, work of art,
videotape, recording, software)
Refereed/juried articles, book chapters
Refereed/juried presentations (e.g. lectures, concerts)
Invited presentations
Grants and contracts received within the last ten years
Other scholarly activity (e.g. professional service, membership in learned societies,
reviewing
activity, non-refereed articles and presentations)