| Eligibility requirement |
Tenured faculty, senior lecturer, or clinical professor |
Tenured faculty |
| Student residents |
First-year only |
Sophomores, juniors, seniors, transfers |
| Mission and scope of work |
Primary focus on creating a supportive and inclusive environment that fosters intellectual engagement, personal development, holistic well-being, and a sense of belonging and connectedness |
Leads house, providing intellectual and social direction; hires staff and participates in staff training; directly or indirectly involved in a wide range of projects and issues concerning students, staff, and facilities |
| Regularity of informal and formal interaction with residents |
Several times a week |
Daily |
| Special dinners for members of residential community |
None, but each FIR organizes one introductory reception for their building at the start of the fall semester |
Required weekly dinners throughout fall and spring semesters |
| Regularly occurring meetings in which residential faculty participate |
Monthly FIR meetings, regular weekly or bi-weekly meetings with residence hall director, occasionally joins residential staff meetings |
Monthly West Campus House Council meetings (serving as co-chair for one year), monthly HPD meetings, monthly HPD and house assistant dean meetings, weekly residential staff meetings, regular meetings with house assistant dean |
| Sources of programmatic and administrative support within residential community |
Conference and Event Services provides programmatic support; FIR has no administrative responsibilities |
House assistant dean, graduate resident fellows, undergraduate resident fellows, house administrative coordinator, house office student staff |
| Supervisory responsibilities |
None |
Supervises house assistant dean, shared supervision of graduate resident fellows, dotted line relationship with house chef |
| Separate office in residential community |
No |
Yes |
| Yearly stipend |
$5,500 |
$10,000 |
| Reduction in departmental and college responsibilities |
None |
Yes, 50% release time from professional obligations in HPD’s department and college |
| Leave provided at end of appointment |
No |
Yes, one semester leave is provided after fifth year as HPD |
| Appointment length |
4-year initial term with possibility of 2-year extension |
3-year initial term with possibility of 2-year extension |