Faculty members are divided into two categories, according to the nature and the duration of their engagement: full-time faculty members and part-time faculty members.
- Full-time faculty members, in one or more academic units, teach, supervise students, manage and deliver tutorials and research activities, while assuming, if need be, academic responsibilities or administrative functions. They must be well informed, regarding their discipline, through documentation and research activities. They receive a monthly salary covering twelve months.
- Usually hired as fully engaged, full-time faculty members may also be hired as partially engaged; that is, professionals who already have remunerated work and only devote part of their career to teaching in their disciplinary field. Their teaching should be exclusively provided at USEK, unless otherwise authorized by the President. The absence of prior authorization in writing will lead to their contract termination.
- Fully engaged full-time faculty members should be entirely devoted to their work at USEK and refrain from any other remunerated or professional activity, unless otherwise authorized by the President.
- In the event of contract defection or termination by a faculty member, the latter will pay a non-negotiable amount to USEK, equivalent to three times their last monthly salary, for damages caused to the University (Article 266 of the Code of Obligations and Contracts).
- Part-time faculty members are in charge of semestrial teaching in one or more units.