Purpose:
Criteria for appointments to Ashbel Smith Professorships or equivalent
nonendowed professorships
Date Approved:
February
6, 1997
Background:
The following minimum criteria for nonendowed Ashbel Smith Professorships (or Ashbel Smith type professorships) consolidate 1993 guidelines and earlier guidelines approved by the U. T. Board of Regents in one listing and were ratified by the U. T. Board of Regents via the U. T. System docket on May 9, 1996, and were amended February 6, 1997 to read as follows:
Criteria for ashbel smith professorships
Each recommended appointment to an Ashbel Smith Professorship or equivalent nonendowed professorship shall be approved based on criteria developed by the institution which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
1. attainment
of the rank of professor with tenure at the component institution;
2. demonstration,
as determined by faculty peers, of excellence in teaching and scholarship;
3. earned
distinction and recognition to the institution as a result of academic
accomplishments; and
4. possession
of personal characteristics that permit an appointee to serve as an example to
students and faculty.
Furthermore, persons nominated for or holding such positions of distinction must comply with the following conditions:
1. not
hold a full-time appointment as a member of the administration (including
departmental chairs and deans) at the time of the selection and initial
appointment, but persons so named who subsequently are appointed to
administrative positions will not be required to relinquish the title;
2. if
another named or endowed professorship or chair is accepted by an incumbent,
the Ashbel Smith (or equivalent) appointment will be vacated; and
3. the holders of such Ashbel Smith (or equivalent) professorships may be granted emeritus status in the professorship upon retirement or upon assuming modified service and, as such, will not be counted against the authorized number of such professorships at the institution.
Last reviewed September 2000