Non-Tenure-Track Faculty - Instructor, Visiting
Model Appointment Letter
Date: ____________________
Dear ________________________:
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the faculty in the (Name of Department/School) at Michigan Technological University. I am pleased to offer you an appointment as a non-tenure track (Instructor/Visiting). The term of your appointment will be for (fall semester/spring semester/the academic year) at the annual salary rate of $_______. Your duties will commence on _____ and will terminate on _____.
[Insert one of the following basic duties and expectations paragraphs:]
- {Instructors} In this position, you will be responsible for teaching _____________.
- {Visiting} We look forward to your developing a program of teaching, research, scholarship, and professional activity in the area of ______________________. Your teaching assignment(s) will be ________________________.
[Insert special conditions paragraphs as needed:]
- {Contingency} This offer is contingent upon satisfying all Federal employment eligibility requirements and proof of having completed all requirements of your (PhD/MS/BS). If you accept this offer and it is your first appointment to Michigan Tech, you must complete tax and other employment forms (in-person) in order to be placed on payroll. Please visit the Human Resources Office (second floor of the Administration Building), no later than your first day of work, to complete the appropriate forms.
- {If MTU application questions on Page 2 are not answered} As a condition of employment you will be required to enter into a patent, research, and proprietary rights agreement which in substance (1) obligates you to report to the University discoveries, invention, or other proprietary information developed by you, (2) gives the University the option to take over and finance such discoveries, inventions, or proprietary material and (3) in the event the University exercises the option, provides for the payment to you of the initial $1,000 of income, 15 percent of the income between $1,000 and $30,000, and 33.3 percent of income in excess of $30,000.
We will regard ourselves as mutually committed upon your returning a signed copy of this letter. This offer must be accepted within thirty (30) days of the date of this letter, unless the time for acceptance is extended in writing.
We look forward to your joining us as a colleague and hope to hear from you shortly so that we can both make firm plans.
Sincerely,
___________________________
I accept this offer.
______________________________________ ___________________________
(Name) (Date)
