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APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY
Please submit this form and the appropriate attachments to Hannah Helme, Graduate College Dean’s Office,
330 Waterman Building or Hannah.Helme@uvm.edu.
For electronic submissions, please combine all documents into one PDF prior to sending to Department
Chair and Academic Dean to preserve signatures.
Applicant Name ____________________________________ Academic Degree ______________________
UVM Address ___________________________________________________________________________
Telephone __________________________ Email Address _______________________________________
Academic Title _________________________________ UVM Appointment Date ____________________
Tenure Track Y___ N___
Membership Category:
___ Research and Scholarship-Based (Regular Membership)
___ Practitioner-Based (Professional Membership)
Membership Type (Faculty Status): ___ Regular ___ Emeritus ___ Adjunct
Department/Program _____________________________________________________________________
Please attach (see pages 3-4 for instructions):
1. Brief explanation of your current and anticipated role in graduate education in your department
and/or other UVM departments or programs
2. Letter of support for graduate faculty status from your department chair (or equivalent)
3. Updated curriculum vitae
4. If you are in a department without a graduate program, and would like to be affiliated with a specific
program, please also include a letter of support from the graduate program director of the graduate
program(s) with which you would like to be affiliated
Complete signature form on page 2 of application.
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SIGNATURES
Please use an electronic signature or sign after printing.
APPLICANT (print) ___________________________________
APPLICANT (sign) ____________________________________ DATE _____________________
I certify that the above individual meets the criteria for graduate faculty status defined by the Graduate
College Constitution, that their role in graduate education is as outlined, and endorse the individual’s
appointment at this time.
CHAIR (print) ________________________________________
CHAIR (sign) _________________________________________ DATE____________________
ACADEMIC DEAN (print) ______________________________
ACADEMIC DEAN (sign) ______________________________ DATE____________________
Approved (print) ______________________________________
Approved (sign) _______________________________________ DATE ____________________
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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)
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b. For Practitioner-Based Applicants:
Name and title at UVM
Educational and employment history
Membership on thesis/dissertation and/or graduate capstone or oral examination
committees within the last ten years
Graduate course instruction within the last ten years
Other service to graduate education within the last ten years
Licensure and/or credentials as appropriate
Evidence of excellence and leadership in their professional activities within the last
ten years, such as:
Practicum/clinical experience
Graduate level supervision experience
Leadership roles in the field
Graduate level mentorship
National recognition
Service in the field
Professional affiliations
Scholarly activity (e.g. publications, presentations, or other scholarly activities
appropriate to the discipline, grants and contracts received within the last ten years)
5. If you are in a department without a graduate program, and would like to be affiliated with a specific
program, please also include a letter of support from the graduate program director of the graduate
program(s) with which you would like to be affiliated