Below is the list of employment categories at FIU:

• Administrative positions are assigned administrative and management responsibilities or professional duties at the department/unit level, or above. Administration employment is at will and can be terminated at any time in accordance with university regulations.
• Executive Service positions ordinarily report directly to the president, unless otherwise specified in writing, and include the vice presidents and other positions responsible for policy making at the executive level.
• Staff positions are assigned professional, paraprofessional, administrative, clerical, secretarial, technical, skilled crafts, service, or maintenance duties.
• Temporary employment is at will with fixed duration.Temporary jobs are organized into a number of categories, each with its own distinctive policies and procedures.
• Faculty – Regular usually resulting from a posting waiver or a successful search, a continuing appointment, which may or may not be term-limited or multiyear. Any regular, multiyear appointment may be renewed or changed to regular with no end date, during the employment of the faculty.  These type of appointments may be full-time (40 standard hours) or part-time (less than 40 standard hours).  Only regular faculty, in the ranks of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor are eligible for tenure.  All other faculty ranks are non-tenure earning.
• Faculty – Visiting positions to be filled on a temporary basis. Usually appointments are for 1 year, with renewal availability for a maximum of 4 years. This type of faculty enjoys the same benefits as a regular faculty.  When eligible, visiting faculty could be considered to receive any across the board increases, the same as regular faculty.  Visiting faculty in all ranks are always non-tenure earning and shall meet the educational and professional experience as required for those ranks in the academic unit.
• Faculty – Clinical can be regular or visiting.  The ranks for clinical faculty are:  Clinical Instructor, Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor and Clinical Professor. Clinical faculty are always non-tenure earning.  Clinical faculty teach and/or are responsible for managing students in the practice component of their degree program.
• Faculty – Joint appointment is defined as employment that is offered by two academic colleges, two academic units, or an academic unit and a center or institute.  The offer letter will clearly designate the primary and secondary units.  If tenure earning, the primary unit will be where the tenure will reside.  Both the dean from the primary unit and the dean/director from the secondary unit will sign the letter.  Only if the letter does not include specifics on the secondary assignment will a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will be required.  Joint appointments are documented with Secondary appointment in the system.
• Faculty – Secondary appointment is given to current faculty or staff who request affiliation with another academic unit or who are invited to affiliation with another academic unit.  This type of appointment is term limited with renewal possibility.  Secondary appointments are documented in the Faculty Administrative Post, under Secondary Appointments.  This type of appointment does not receive additional remuneration resulting from the affiliation.  The offer letter is signed by both the dean from the secondary unit and the dean from the home academic unit.
• Faculty – Courtesy appointment is offered to a person who meets the academic unit’s professional qualifications but whose primary assignment is outside of the institution.  The department will suggest the academic title or rank to be given to the candidate, based on his professional experience and education level.  Courtesy appointments receive no financial remuneration, are term-limited and are always non-tenure earning.
• Faculty – Temporary is non-tenure earning, non-benefit eligible employees.  The period of employment is usually less than a year, but not more than a year if full-time, and come to complete a specific assignment.  Usually assigned to less than 100% effort.