About Us

Our office oversees academic appointments for approximately 4,600 faculty and 600 research staff.  Our activities include:

• Publishing the Information Guide for Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, which defines Feinberg’s career tracks and the criteria for success in each track
• Managing appointment processes across faculty career stages, from recruitment to retirement
• Providing expertise and developing resources to support department chairs and administrators in interpreting and executing academic appointment policies and procedures
• Coordinating the recruitment of department chairs and institute and center directors
• Offering faculty development programming, maintaining a faculty career development directory, and hosting faculty-attended events such as the annual Promotion and Tenure Information Session
• Implementing and managing information systems to track faculty career history and professional activity to meet the reporting needs of faculty, administrative units, and accrediting bodies
• Acting as liaison with the Office of the Provost, Office for Research and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, as well as outside organizations such as the American Association of Medical Colleges
• Overseeing the Women's Faculty Organization and Medical Faculty Council