New Jersey City University Faculty Handbook
PERSONNEL POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND PRACTICE
A visiting specialist may be appointed to the University with a rank such as artist-or poet or composer-in-residence. He/she shall have achieved distinction in a field such as the arts, the humanities, the sciences, or public life. While the attainment of academic excellence in a given field is desirable, such appointment shall be made principally on the basis of the distinction the person has achieved in his or her chosen field. Visiting specialists are not part of a bargaining unit.
Source: NJCU Personnel Regulations 9:6-3.14 (1996, 1997).