Membership and Roles of the Faculty of the Graduate School

						Allowed Committee Roles¹
	Appointment	Ranks	Initial Nomination²	Term	Renewal Nomination	Chair	Co-chair	Serve
Graduate Faculty	Tenure Track	Assistant, Associate, Full, Regents, Emeritus Professor	Automatic	Annual	Automatic	✔	✔	✔
Associate Graduate Faculty	Career Track	Assistant, Associate, Full, Emeritus Professor	By chair or director	Five years	Renewed every five years, nomination by chair or director	✔	✔	✔
Associate Graduate Faculty	USDA, PNNL	—	By chair or director	Five years	Renewed every five years, nomination by chair or director	✔	✔	✔
Auxiliary Graduate Faculty	Short-term Track	Adjoint³	By chair or director	Three years	Renewed every three years, nomination by chair or director		✔	✔
Auxiliary Graduate Faculty	Short-term Track	Adjunct³	By chair or director	Three years	Renewed every three years, nomination by chair or director		✔	✔

¹ For all but Graduate Faculty, allowed graduate committee roles are defined by the WSU Faculty Manual and the individual graduate program bylaws. Individual graduate program bylaws may be more prescriptive and limit these roles.

² Chair or director refers to the chair or director of the academic unit (i.e., department or school).

³ The Faculty Manual defines adjoint and adjunct faculty participation on graduate student committees in section I.B.1.d.3 and I.B.1.d.