Office of the Provost
Office of the Provost

Faculty Appointments

Faculty appointments on the Main Campus are made by the Provost on the recommendation of Chairs and Deans following the appropriate search approval and selection process. Please contact viceprovostforfaculty@georgetown.edu for information regarding the search approval process, informal offers to candidates, and search requirements and guidelines. You will also find useful information on faculty searches on the website of the Office of Institutional Equity, Diversity and Affirmative Action.

See the OFA/HCM Deadlines Calendar here.

Effective: April 17, 2020

Rationale:

Some Georgetown faculty play a role, in addition to their teaching and research appointment duties, in managing centers and institutes, leading initiatives, and driving change through various administrative appointments. Further, in the future, Georgetown will increasingly work collaboratively across schools, campuses and units, requiring greater coordination of administrative appointments.

Policy:

A Georgetown University faculty member of any rank or tenure status may hold no more than two administrative responsibilities simultaneously, for supplemental remuneration, at any one time. 

Process:

Upon appointing a faculty member to an administrative role, the appointing school dean must review all standing appointments to administrative leadership positions for that faculty member, prior to making the appointment.  No more than two administrative appointments may be held concurrently.

Administrative positions shall have a renewable term of one to three years and require a letter of appointment from the appointing dean or provost.  As a requirement of the university’s Office of Legal Counsel,  all appointment letters must list the terms and conditions of each appointment held by that faculty member. A copy of that appointment letter must be provided to the Office of the Provost – Faculty Affairs.

Starting in Summer, 2020, Faculty members currently holding more than two appointments may serve out their current terms for those duties.  For appointments that have no term, the Provost Office must approve resolution of the appointments.

Search committees, short term task force assignments, and various president-appointed or provost-appointed committee assignments are not considered administrative positions for the purposes of this policy.

Appointment requests require academic approval from Chairs, Deans, and the Provost. Appointments are processed using the forms found below, which must be shared with the appropriate Chair and Deans Offices. Completed forms are then sent to the Office of Faculty Affairs within the Office of the Provost following the process linked here . Workflows for common faculty appointment processes are linked here . Questions on the process can be directed to facultyrecords@georgetown.edu.

All appointments and affiliations require approval from the Department Chair or Program/Center Director and Dean.  Appointments with pay (salary, stipend, etc.) require approval from the appropriate Budget Director or Associate Dean for Finance.

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