UTD administrative staff members use the Staff Credentialing Tool to review and validate staff qualifications; this process may be repeated periodically to encourage all employees with supervisory responsibility to maintain accurate and current personnel files. Supporting documents – including transcript, resume/CV, and/or job description copies – are included for review to assist in the assessment of personnel. Administrators may include other documents or free-form text to provide justification when documents on file do not fully identify an individual’s strengths and qualifications.

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Link to Staff Credentialing Tool (http://sacs.utdallas.edu/staff_credentials)

UTD has a rigorous faculty credentialing process in place to ensure that all instructional personnel are qualified to teach the courses they are assigned. By reviewing the academic credentials of all faculty, the deans within each school strive to ensure that students are well served within the classroom. The credentialing documents include:

• Procedures Guidelines: A procedural statement outlining the process by which deans (or their designees) will review each person’s academic credentials in relation to the courses each is assigned to teach.
• Form for Non-Tenured Personnel: This form is designed to certify all non-tenured personnel teaching classes, including adjunct faculty, lecturers, and senior lecturers. This form is also useful for certifying visiting faculty.
• Form for Teaching Assistants: Teaching assistants’ credentials are also reviewed to ensure that they are capable of providing the appropriate level of instructional support within each class they are assigned. The minimum requirement is 18 graduate hours’ credit directly related to the course material being presented. TA’s who are not teaching need not be certified.
• Form for Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty: Because our resident faculty members maintain a relatively regular course load across terms, faculty members may be “credentialed” initially at hiring and re-certified when new courses are developed or assigned. UTD recognizes that its esteemed faculty may have expertise outside their actual degree course work based on significant research, publications, or other relevant experience. In all cases, tenured and tenure-track faculty are held to the highest standard as they represent the university for many years.