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Appointments: Section II. Appointments and Titles Used in the School of Dentistry

1. General Comments: The appointments and titles used in the School of Dentistry are essentially the same as those employed in the other Schools and Colleges of the University of Washington. The School of Dentistry has the following types of appointments:
   1. Regular Academic:
      Acting Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor;
   2. Research:
      Research Associate, Research Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, Research Professor;
   3. Clinician-Teacher:
      Clinical Instructor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Professor;
   4. Affiliate:
      Affiliate Instructor, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Affiliate Associate Professor, Affiliate Professor; and
   5. Other:
      Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Visiting, Adjunct, Joint, Emeritus

   Some appointments may not require assessment by the School’s APT Committee, but all are subject to approval of the Board of Regents.

   The issue of the proper classification of faculty actively involved in a portion of the instructional program needs to be considered. Faculty in the regular professorial ranks, but designated as "without tenure for reasons of funding (WOT)”, are expected to be integrated into the instructional program. WOT faculty hold continuing appointments at the Associate Professor and Professor ranks and are voting members of the faculty, both within the department and the University as a whole. WOT faculty are supported primarily from grant and contract funds, except when their time is supported from state budgets for instructional purposes. The fact that soft money-supported faculty are involved in teaching does not necessarily mean that they are to be classified as WOT rather than research. The critical differentiation factor between the two faculty categories is the expectation for WOT faculty to participate in departmental teaching and service functions on a regular and continuing basis. It remains a departmental faculty decision whether to appoint individuals primarily supported by soft money as either research or regular WOT faculty. Department Chairpersons must remember that WOT faculty are expected to assume a teaching load that is comparable to any regular faculty member and that excellence in teaching is an important consideration in promotion and merit pay raises.