Employee Definitions (See Policy #1004)

There are three (3) categories of employment:

• Professional Staff. This category includes all personnel having a general scope of duties and responsibilities requiring educational qualifications and professional training that exempts their positions from the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the State Personnel System. This category consists of the following subcategories:

  • Academic-Administrative Staff. This subcategory includes all faculty and such administrative officers as the Board may designate. The faculty of the University of Nebraska includes all persons holding the academic rank of assistant instructor and above, or formally approved equivalent ranks.

  • Other Academic Staff. This subcategory includes all persons with the rank of research associate, research assistant, graduate assistant, teaching assistant, teaching fellow, and house officer.

  • Managerial-Professional Staff. This subcategory includes persons serving in nonacademic professional positions including nurses, technical specialists, directors not included in the academic-administrative staff, and all departmental managers. Part-time employees in this subcategory may be subject to the provisions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

• Office and Service Staff. This category includes all persons who perform work that by custom in business, industry, and other institutions of higher education is managed on an hourly basis with such work compensated according to hours worked or earned, including clerical and office employees, foremen, general service workers, and other personnel paid on an hourly basis.

• Student Employees. This category includes all employees whose primary occupation is that of student, except those qualifying under 3.1.1.2.