For Departments
The Office of Faculty Affairs is the administrative arm of Academic Affairs. It handles all process-oriented issues for the faculty, researchers, post-docs, and student officers. It's responsible for ensuring compliance with University Statutes and with state and federal law.
This website provides links, forms, and letters to aid Department Administrators in various faculty processes.
Recruitment & Appointments
Recruitment of academic personnel is now handled through RAPS. See below and in the right-hand side menu for RAPS forms and guidelines:
RAPS:
- - Faculty Search Request (Pre-Approval) Form
- - Requirements for Recruitment
- - RAPS Login Info
- - RAPS Login page
- - Search Committee User Guide
- - Guide to CV writing
View the CUMC Affirmative Action Policy
Please also see the COAP checklists and Sample Offer Letters under "Forms" in the left hand menu.
Click here to view information on Joint and Interdisciplinary Appointments.
Reciprocal Appointments with Weill-Cornell Medical Center:
The Columbia University Medical Center supports the collaboration between departments at Columbia and those at Weill-Cornell. In order that faculty may care for patients, provide instruction or collaborate on research activities at the other institution, the faculty member must receive a 'reciprocal' appointment.
Procedure for securing this appointment.
Reciprocal Request and Release Form
Guidelines for Short-term Visitors in Research-Related Activities
These guidelines are provided on behalf of Naomi Scharg, Associate Vice President for Research and Compliance and Training.
Tenure & Promotion
Please visit the "Forms" page in the left hand menu to view the COAP checklists and Sample Offer Letter
Leaves of Absences
Termination
Please see the Guide to Faculty Termination to the right and view the procedure guidelines and sample letters of non-renewal.
Salary Guidelines 2013-2014
Officers of Research
Salary guidelines for Officer of Research (OOR) appointments for fiscal year 2014 are available by clicking here. The CUMC OOR salaries are to be used as a guide in setting salaries. The tables, which include salaries for both Morningside and CUMC, show salary differences by rank for the two campuses. The University is committed to reconciling these differences over a 3 year period so that that there is uniform salary support for OOR appointments on both campuses.
Tenure Salary Policy
For the Tenure Salary Policy, please click here.
