Blue Forms
(Changes to Professorial Appointments)
The "Blue Form" is the University form for recommending changes to professorial appointments, including:
- additional appointments (joint, courtesy, or secondary appointments in other academic departments)
- extensions or changes to appointment term
- change in FTE
- change of primary department
- changes to tenure/appointment clock deadline
- recalls to active duty of emeritus faculty (see Emeritus Faculty Recall page)
This page provides audiovisual demonstrations and annotated samples, demonstrating how to fill out the blue form for these circumstances.
The blue form can also be used to recall emeritus or emerita faculty to active duty, which is is described on the Emeritus/Emerita Faculty web page.
- Appointment Form ("Blue Form")
-New! when printing this form, please use blue paper.
Additional Appointments
Courtesy Appointments
From Chapter 2, SoM Faculty Handbook:
In the School of Medicine, a courtesy appointment is defined as one in which the faculty member often makes a substantial contribution to departments other than their own, but in ways less formal than would justify a joint or secondary appointment. It is permissible for a faculty member to hold more than one courtesy appointment. There is usually no commitment of salary, space, research or other support involved in a courtesy appointment.
Secondary Appointments
From Chapter 2, SoM Faculty Handbook:
In the School of Medicine, a secondary appointment is defined as an arrangement whereby the faculty member holds a primary appointment, as well as a secondary appointment, in departments within the School of Medicine. (Occasionally, a faculty member whose primary appointment is in another school may have a secondary appointment in a School of Medicine department.) It is permissible for a faculty member to hold more than one secondary appointment. A secondary appointment acknowledges the faculty member’s active participation in a department’s research, educational and/or clinical activities, and the title carries certain responsibilities and bestows certain privileges as outlined below. Normally, all resources (e.g., billet, salary, research support) are provided by the faculty member’s primary department.
Joint Appointments
From Chapter 2, SoM Faculty Handbook:
In the School of Medicine, faculty with joint appointments hold half of their appointment in a department within the School of Medicine and the other half of their appointment in a department affiliated with one of Stanford’s other six schools. Under this arrangement, one department is designated as “primary” and the other as “secondary.” Normally, both departments split the salary. The faculty member is assigned two billet (position) numbers, one in each unit.
