Center-affiliated Faculty

All center-affiliated faculty must have a research interest and demonstrated scholarly activity aligned with the mission of the center. Centers will be discouraged from affiliating large numbers of faculty in name only.

In addition to the director and any associate or assistant directors, center-affiliated faculty fall into two categories: (1) Affiliates (2) Investigators. Note that all Investigators are Affiliates but not vice-versa. In publicly-facing materials, centers are free to only label all faculty as Affiliates or to distinguish the two categories.

Affiliates comprise:

Tenure line or non-tenure-line PSU faculty, from within HHD or any other PSU college, or non-PSU faculty who have gone through a standard process developed by the center to vet for research interest aligned with the center’s focused mission and demonstrated research activity in that area. The expectation is that the center will have an internal process to regularly review affiliate status.

Investigators comprise:

Tenure line or non-tenure-line PSU faculty, from within HHD or any other PSU college, who have gone through a standard process developed by the center to vet for research interest aligned with the center’s focused mission and demonstrated research activity in that area as well as who are funded investigators (PI or co-investigator) on awarded extramurally funded center projects. Faculty may retain their Investigator affiliation for one fiscal year when they are not an investigator on awarded center extramural funding.