Adjunct/Visiting in Lieu of Adjuncts

ADJUNCT APPOINTMENT

• Always 4-Month type.
• Manual contract must be prepared for all OPS Adjunct employees (4 month contracts). Blank sets of the current contracts are available at http://bad.fsu.edu/Positions-Rate/Online-Contracts.
• Temporary appointment of persons with satisfactory professional qualifications who perform temporary teaching of UNDERGRADUATE COURSES ONLY, research, or extension functions in connection with established programs.
• Compensated on a per course basis and paid from OPS funds.
• May be employed no more than 50% FTE throughout a year – Fall semester through Summer semester (or full time no more than 26 weeks of the full year).
• Appointments must be done for one semester at a time. Beginning and ending dates are not allowed to cross over from one semester to another. A separate ePAF must be completed for each semester re-appointed.
• The course prefix, number and credit hours must be indicated in the “COMMENTS” section of the pPAF and ePAF for any course an adjunct is teaching.
• Adjuncts are not permitted to teach graduate level courses.

VISITING IN LIEU OF ADJUNCTS
(follow the same guidelines as the Adjunct Appointments)

• Always 9-month type.
• Temporary appointments of persons with satisfactory professional qualifications who perform temporary teaching of GRADUATE COURSES ONLY (or combination of Graduate/Undergraduate) in connection with established programs.
• Compensated on a per course basis and paid from OPS funds.
• May be employed no more than 50% FTE throughout a year – Fall semester through Summer semester (or full time no more than 26 weeks of the full year).
• Appointments must be done for one semester at a time. Beginning and ending dates are not allowed to cross over from one semester to another. A separate ePAF must be completed for each semester re-appointed.
• The course prefix, number and credit hours must be indicated in the “COMMENTS” section of the pPAF and ePAF for any course an adjunct is teaching.

Procedural questions, please contact Katie Filomio in Human Resources at 644-1449 or kfilomio@admin.fsu.edu.

Policy questions, please contact Dr. Andrea Novak in the Office of the Dean of the Faculties at 644-6876 or anovak@admin.fsu.edu.

12/2011