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Professional Qualification (PQ) of Faculty to Teach

Adopted by the faculty of the school on 08/18/2006
Amended on 01/05/2007

Professionally qualified (PQ) faculty members will have current and substantial relevant work experience in the field in which they teach.

  • Executives and senior professionals, either current or retired who had significant responsibility in the area in which they teach shall be deemed professionally qualified as long as they are no more than five years from the end of that relevant work experience.
  • To maintain such relevant executive experience requires continued active work in the field as an executive, or consultant. Such work must be current and demonstrably relevant.
  • For those who teach in a field in which there is licensing, (e.g. CPA, CPIM, lawyer etc.), the person must maintain that license and meet all continuing education requirements for that licensing.
  • For any professionally qualified person there must also be scholarly outcomes during a rolling five-year period. These scholarly outcomes may include a broad spectrum of scholarly activities {are not restricted to peer reviewed journal articles}, and may be primarily pedagogical or practitioner oriented. Over a five year period, for a full-time person teaching twelve hours, it is expected that there will be two such scholarly outcomes from an individual seeking to maintain his/her professional qualification status. The expectation of scholarly outcomes of those with Professional Qualifications, who are teaching in the graduate program, should be greater (quantity and/or quality) than those PQ faculty teaching exclusively in the undergraduate program.

The burden of proof that the faculty member is professionally qualified shall be rigorous, well documented, and fall upon the faculty member to prove to the department=s faculty. Each professionally qualified person must prove their professional qualifications to School faculty as provided for below.