Membership Eligibility

FACET members are among the best teachers across FACET-affliated campuses. The eligibility requirements for faculty are as follows: 

  • Teaching must be a primary responsibility for the faculty member, typically with a minimum of one course taught per semester. 
  • Must be in good standing (not under review or improvement plan). Your campus associate director will confirm good standing with your EVCAA or VPFAA shortly after your campus' nomination deadline. 
  • Full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty, full-time non-tenure-track lecturers, teaching professors, professors of practice, faculty with full-time clinical teaching assignments (e.g., medicine, nursing, law, optometry), and librarians with significant teaching responsibilities are eligible for nomination. 
  • Faculty have completed five years of teaching at a FACET-eligible campus by June 1st of the year in which they are nominated. Or, faculty who have accrued two years or more of full-time teaching experience at other universities and have completed three years of full-time teaching at a FACET-eligible campus by June 1st of the year in which they are nominated. Years as a visiting professor or lecturer count toward requirements as long as the candidate is currently in a full-time position (non-visiting).
  • Nominees should be able to document and demonstrate their approach to teaching and their impact on learning in and beyond the classroom. They may have won Distinguished Teaching Awards, but nominations are neither restricted to that group of faculty, nor is there a fixed quota for any discipline, rank, or campus.

Procedure for Exceptions

Campus associate directors can submit an exception request for an eligible candidate. They must contact the FACET Executive Director and provide a rationale for the exception. The FACET Executive Director and Membership and Selection Director review the request and if it's determined to have merit, the case presented to the FACET Steering Committee. If the exception is approved, the FACET Executive Director will communicate the decision of the Steering Committee to the candidate with copies to the Chair of the Statewide Selection Committee and the campus associate director(s).

Once an exception is granted, the candidate may then prepare and submit a dossier to their Campus Selection Committee for consideration. Exceptions are valid for one year. If the individual chooses not to submit a dossier in the next year, the exception expires and the case would need to be considered again.

Possible situations for which an exception might be made include, but not limited to:

  • Time: current requirement is five years (full-time) in the Indiana University system; exception may be granted for those who have been teaching in the IU system for less than five years but have teaching experience at other universities.
  • Teaching status: current requirement is that a person must be teaching students with a minimum of one course per semester.
  • Peer Review: current requirement is that a person must have two peer reviews from the past two years of teaching; exception might be granted for those with peer reviewers outside of Indiana University.
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