Lecturer-Track Faculty Appointments

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Lecturer-Track Faculty Appointments 

For lecturer-track faculty procedures, please contact when applicable the relevant (Sr.) Associate Dean. For English, it is Jason Zentz (jason.zentz@yale.edu), in other Humanities units it is John Mangan (john.mangan@yale.edu), and in Social Science and Science it is Bob Burger (robert.burger@yale.edu).

Throughout these procedures, when a lecturer or senior lecturer is considered for initial appointment or, along with senior lecturer II, reappointment or promotion in one of the Area Studies Councils of the MacMillan Center, the Center functions as the department, and the director of the Center functions as the department chair.

The lecturer track includes the ranks of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer II.

The procedures linked in the blue column on this page apply to searches, reappointments, and promotions for instructional (non-ladder) lecturer-track faculty. Forms and templates for these processes may be found in the Instructional (Non-Ladder) Appointments Document Library.

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Contact Us

Please direct your single year and semester questions to Daniel Oshiro, and all your multi-year appointment questions to Neyza Rodriguez.

Types of Appointments

There are two types of lecturer appointments in the FAS: single year/semester appointments and multi-year appointments. 

Criteria

Appointment to the rank of lecturer, senior lecturer, or senior lecturer II is appropriate only for candidates whose responsibilities include regular teaching. Faculty members holding these ranks will normally have earned the PhD or its equivalent or another appropriate terminal degree. Please refer to the appointment criteria for senior lecturer and senior lecturer II, as set forth by the Steering Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Terms of Appointment 

Lecturers may be appointed to a term varying from one semester to three years, and senior lecturers and senior lecturers II may be appointed to a term varying from one semester to five years, in each case depending on professional accomplishment, development as a teacher, programmatic needs, and available resources.

The University does not typically make initial appointments at the level of senior lecturer II.

Process

Reappointments of one semester or one year require the approval of the FAS Dean’s Office, but do not require the appointment of a search committee or a department faculty vote. Department chairs instead, in consultation with their faculty colleagues, make their recommendations directly to TRAC.

Similarly, if the department wishes to request additional teaching resources for current instructional faculty, they should submit their recommendations directly to TRAC.

Contact

  • John Mangan, Humanities
  • Robert Burger, Sciences and Social Sciences

TRAC Appointment Requests

The department submits the following materials as a single PDF document to TRAC for final review. The PDF should be sent to the relevant senior associate or assistant dean, with a copy to fas.dean@yale.edu, with the subject line:

Appointments: 


TRAC Appointment Dossier, [Candidate’s Name]:

  1. Candidate’s CV
  2. Candidate’s cover letter, if available
  3. 2 Letters of Recommendation
  4. Any other relevant documents for review
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TRAC Reappointments/Teaching Resource Requests

The department submits the following materials as a single PDF document to TRAC for final review. The PDF should be sent to the relevant senior associate or assistant dean, with a copy to fas.dean@yale.edu, with the subject line:

Reappointments/Teaching Resource Requests:


TRAC Reappointment Dossier, [Candidate’s Name] or TRAC Teaching Resource Request, [Candidate’s Name]:

  1. Brief rationale from the chair for the reappointment, including courses to be taught, how they fit into the curriculum, and any additional relevant information (past teaching performance, enrollments, etc.). Any requests to increase teaching resources (with corresponding FTE increase) must be justified in detail and approved by TRAC
  2. Any other relevant documents for review
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These are the documents you can use to request TRAC resources. 

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Multi-Year Lecturer Ranks

Criteria


Appointment to the rank of lecturer, senior lecturer, or senior lecturer II is appropriate only for candidates whose responsibilities include regular teaching. Faculty members holding these ranks will normally have earned the PhD or its equivalent or another appropriate terminal degree. Please refer to the appointment criteria for senior lecturer and senior lecturer II, as set forth by the Steering Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Milestones
Promotion to Senior Lecturer
Senior lecturers may be appointed to a term varying from one semester to five years, in each case depending on professional accomplishment, development as a teacher, programmatic needs, and available resources.
Appointment

Senior Lecturer

Five Years

A lecturer in a multi-year appointment may be considered for promotion to senior lecturer; typically, the promotion review occurs in the penultimate year of an appointment (in lieu of a reappointment review). In unusual circumstances, promotion may be considered earlier, if authorized by the FAS Dean’s Office. No lecturer may be reviewed for promotion more than once in any three-academic-year period. A lecturer reappointment review cannot be converted midstream into a promotion review at the request of the candidate, review committee, or department faculty; rather, consideration for the rank of senior lecturer must be approved by the Teaching Resource Advisory Committee (TRAC) at the outset of the review as described below.

Milestones
Reappointment Review
​A lecturer in a multi-year appointment seeking promotion provides a copy of their current CV to the department or program chair and discusses with the chair their potential candidacy, with reference to the criteria for senior lecturer.
Appointment

Senior Lecturer II

Five Years, Eligible for Reappointment

Senior lecturers II may be appointed to a term varying from one semester to five years, in each case depending on professional accomplishment, development as a teacher, programmatic needs, and available resources. A senior lecturer in a multi-year appointment may be considered for promotion to senior lecturer II after completing four years in rank of senior lecturer. Typically, the promotion review occurs in the penultimate year of an appointment (in lieu of a reappointment review). In unusual circumstances, promotion may be considered earlier, if authorized by the FAS Dean’s Office. No senior lecturer may be reviewed for promotion more than once in any three-academic-year period. A senior lecturer reappointment review cannot be converted midstream into a promotion review at the request of the candidate, review committee, or department faculty; rather, consideration for the rank of senior lecturer II must be approved by the Teaching Resource Advisory Committee (TRAC) at the outset of the review as described below.

Milestones
Promotion Review Request to Senior Lecturer II
A senior lecturer in a multi-year appointment seeking promotion provides a copy of their current CV to the department or program chair and discusses with the chair their potential candidacy, with reference to the criteria for senior lecturer II.

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