eduPersonAffiliation

Description

Specifies the person’s role at the organization in broad categories such as student, staff, employee etc.

Format

Permissible values are: faculty, student, staff, alum, member, affiliate, employee, library-walk-in. These are arranged in a hierarchy (as shown in the figure to the right). A student/pupil will have the values member and student. An educational employee will have all the values member, employee and faculty. A person serving as both principal and teacher will have the values member, employee, and both staff and faculty. The attribute eduPersonPrimaryAffiliation gives the person’s primary role.

Examples

A pupil/student has all the values:

• student

• member

A teacher (or in higher education: member of the scientific staff) has all the values:

• faculty

• employee

• member

An employee without any educational responsibility has all the values:

• staff

• employee

• member

The value “affiliate” is used to show that a person is affiliated with the organization, but that there is no formal contracts of employment or studying:

• affiliate

A person can fill several roles, in example be both an employee and a student at the same time. The person then has all the roles:

• student

• staff

• employee

• member

Another example of multiple roles is when a person serves as both a principal and a teacher. In this case, the person holds the values of both staff and faculty.

• staff

• faculty

• employee

• member

Technical details

Cardinality:

Multivalued

Availability in higher education.:

High

Availability, primary and secondary school.:

High

Entry type:

person

Short description:

Person’s role (ex. student, employee)