The First Year Seminar Program employs eleven full-time "core faculty" members in non-tenure-track positions. These core faculty members, who begin as Lecturers but can earn promotion to become Senior Lecturers, teach full loads of First Year Seminar each regular (fall and spring) semester. Additional sections of First Year Seminar are also taught every semester by other instructors. These additional sections of First Year Seminar can be taught by faculty members who are already employed in other academic units at Appalachian, and who teach First Year Seminar either in-load or as an overload with the permission of their Department Chair or Program Director who commit to allowing them to teach First Year Seminar for at least three semesters. Additional sections of First Year Seminar can also be taught by part-time instructors who are hired directly by the First Year Seminar Program, and who have at least a Master's degree plus academic training, scholarly contributions, and prior teaching and/or work experience appropriate for the topic of their First Year Seminar class.
