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| 1. |
Faculty Responsibilities
The interaction of faculty members with students
represents the essence of the educational
process. Full-time faculty workload consists
of responsibilities identified in the three
areas below:
| a. |
Learning Facilitation
Includes responsibilities associated
with serving students such as: teaching,
planning, evaluating, academic advising,
and counseling. Teaching is interpreted
as the traditional classroom lecture/lab/clinical
arrangement as well as distance learning
methods such as ITV, Telecourses, Internet,
etc. |
| b. |
Institutional Service
Includes responsibilities that support
Southwestern Community College (SCC)
achieving its goals such as: serving
on committees, mentoring faculty, student
recruitment, guidance of student organizations,
developing curriculum, contacts with
prospective student employers, and supporting
in administrative functions. |
| c. |
Professional Development
Includes responsibilities associated
with staying current in the discipline
as well as the craft of teaching.
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| 2. |
Work Period
Contracts are awarded annually and provide
the term of employment. Faculty members,
as professionals, are expected to devote
the time required to get the job done. This
work may occur during the day and/or evening,
weekdays and/or weekends. Additionally,
SCC serves a three-county area with multiple
off-campus locations. Therefore, faculty
may have teaching assignments at an off-campus
location. Except for teaching hours, and
office hours, faculty schedules are flexible
in order for faculty to be responsive to
student, program, and college needs. Participation
is expected in college activities and events
which may occur on non-teaching days.
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| 3. |
Office Hours
In order to be available to students outside
of class, faculty are expected to post teaching
schedules and office hours. These schedules
should be posted by the start of classes each
semester. Office hours should be posted at
times accessible to students, except when
off-campus assignments (clinicals, etc.) prevent
it. Office hours should be treated as regular
scheduled class times. Regular or standing
commitments should not conflict with office
hours. If a standing commitment is necessary
during your office hours then you should adjust
your other hours.
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7 office hours per week if
24 contact hours or less |
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4 office hours per week if
25 or more contact hours
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| 4. |
Teaching Load
| a. |
Workload assignments are calculated
for an academic year (Fall and Spring
Semesters). Summer term stands alone
and is not averaged with Fall and Spring
Semesters. A faculty member's teaching
load may be achieved through instruction
of curriculum and/or non-credit courses.
A faculty member who does not have a
minimum teaching load after averaging
Fall and Spring Semesters may be assigned
additional responsibilities. |
| b. |
The faculty are responsible for the
initial development of the semester
schedule/workload which are subject
to dean/director approval. |
| c. |
The loads that follow may be presented
as either credit or contact hours or
both. A faculty member’s load
is achieved when his/her hours fall
within either range;
only one range has to be met. The ranges
for the academic divisions are below:
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Career Technologies
| Credit
Hours |
Contact
Hours |
Programs |
Comments |
| 16-18 |
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Criminal
Justice, Early Childhood, Early
Childhood Teacher Associate, Occupational
Education Associate, Paralegal
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Program
Coordinators may be loaded on
the low end of range depending
on the needs of the program |
| 16-18 |
18-22 |
Accounting,
Advertising & Graphic Design,
Automotive, Business Administration,
Business Administration - Electronic
Commerce, Cyber Crime,
Computer Engineering, Electronics
Engineering, Hotel and Restaurant
Management, Information Systems,
Internet Technology, Network Administration
and Support, Office Systems Technology,
Real Estate, Surveying, Virtual
Office Assistance |
| 25-28 |
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Air
Conditioning/Heating and Refrigeration,
Carpentry, Cosmetology, Culinary,
Electrical/ Electronics, Masonry,
Plumbing, Welding |
Arts & Sciences/Developmental
| Credit
Hours |
Contact
Hours |
Programs |
Comments |
| 15 |
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English |
(consideration
will be given to the number of
students in the courses and the
number of highly intensive writing
courses as the load is made) |
| Humanities/Social
Sciences (Sociology, History,
Humanities, Psychology, Political
Science, Anthropology, Foreign
Language, etc.) |
Typically
these courses have high student
enrollments |
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Minimum
of four courses |
| 16-
18 |
17
- 20 |
Mathematics |
Load
is annualized at 18-19 |
| 16
- 22 |
Science |
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25 |
Developmental |
Minimum
of five courses |
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25 |
Physical
Education |
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Health Sciences
Credit
Hours |
Contact
Hours |
Programs
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Comments |
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17
- 21 |
Program
Coordinator |
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| 20
- 28 |
Clinical
Coordinator and /or Instructor |
Loading for clinicals is based
on the following:
100% of actual hours of direct clinical
experience. Additional hours recognized
for coordination based on number of
students and sites (active sites).
Add the two factors together to get
the total coordination time.
| #
of Sites |
Contact
Hours |
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#
of Students |
Contact
Hours |
| 2-8 |
.5 |
2-8 |
.5 |
| 9-15 |
1 |
9-15 |
1 |
| 16+ |
1.5 |
16+ |
1.5 |
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| d. |
New instructional methodology
and technology make it difficult to
set workload standards for every situation.
The amount of preparation and the amount
of interaction between faculty and students
that is associated with special course
and non-traditional instruction is an
important element in calculating faculty
workload. Decisions about workload should
include consideration of the discipline,
enrollment, time commitment, complexity
of the course, and methods of evaluation.
Some of the special courses are: cooperative
work experience, non-credit courses,
telecourses, and Internet courses. Faculty
members who teach a "special"
course will be credited with loading
hours based on the matrices below:
Cooperative Work Experience
| #
Of Students at End of Drop/Add |
Credit
Hours |
| 1-5 |
1 |
| 6-10 |
2 |
| 11-20 |
3 |
| 21-30 |
4 |
Telecourses (Pre-packaged
instructional materials) / Internet
Courses
Number
of students at end of drop/add |
Percent
of course contact hours |
2
Hour Course |
3
Hour Course |
4
Hour Course |
5
Hour Course |
| 1-4 |
80 |
1.6 |
2.4 |
3.2 |
4.0 |
| 5+ |
100 |
2.0 |
3.0 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
Non-Credit Courses
These courses may be included
as part of full-time faculty workload.
The dean/director in consultation with
the faculty member is responsible for
equating non-credit contact hours to
contact/credit hour workload. |
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| 5. |
Summer Loading / Office
Hours One Summer Session
(typically 5-5 ½ weeks)
Faculty members teach 6-8 credit
hours, 20-28 contact hours per week. Typically,
this load is achieved with two courses.
Additionally, during the summer term office
hours will be maintained. Typically, the
expectation will be to have 3 office hours
per week.
Full Summer (typically 10-11 weeks)
Faculty members teach 8-10 credit
hours, 20-28 contact hours per week. Typically,
this load is achieved with three courses.
Additionally, during the summer term office
hours will be maintained. Typically, the
expectation will be to have 3 office hours
per week.
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| 6. |
Student Advising
The advice we provide students has a significant
impact on their ability to realize their goals.
It is expected that all faculty are committed
to effective student interaction and/or advising.
For the faculty member that has an excessive
number of advisees there will be a load recognition.
If a faculty member has a student advising
load of 60 students or more there will be
a one course reduction. Clarifying points:
Advisee – is defined as active advisee
at the end of drop/add; one course –
is defined as a 3-4 credit hour course. As
a part of these advising responsibilities,
the faculty must show five hours on the door/work
schedule that is outside the teaching and
regular office hours. These hours will be
designated as “advising” and the
faculty member should be in the office/work
area and available to students. The advising
release time only applies to fall and spring
semesters due to the unique nature of summer
semester.
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| 7. |
Extra Service Compensation
A faculty member who teaches hours that
exceed the maximum number of credit or contact
hours during an academic year may receive
additional compensation. To ensure consistency
for an extra service contract, the request
will be approved by the dean/director and
Vice President for Instruction and Student
Services brought before the Instructional
Administrators group. The following factors
will be considered in the decision regarding
an extra contract:
| a. |
The faculty member and the dean/director
must mutually agree that an "overload"
is in the best interest of all parties
(students, faculty, college). |
| b. |
To achieve extra compensation the
maximum of the teaching ranges must
be exceeded. |
| c. |
To realize an overload, the extra
course(s) should be outside the framework
of the typical work week. For example,
if the typical work schedule occurs
Monday thru Friday then the overload
would occur in the evenings. |
| d. |
Extra compensation must be consistent
with division objectives and will require
pre-planning. |
| e. |
Faculty will realize the extra compensation
through an extra contract. The contract
will be paid at the adjunct faculty
pay rates. "Banking" of hours
to realize a summer contract is not
an option. |
| f. |
A faculty member may exceed the fall
loading values and not receive an extra
contract if it is determined that the
Spring load will be less than the normal
load. Again, the loads are annualized.
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| g. |
With the extra course(s), the faculty
member will also provide additional
access for students in these courses.
For example, if the extra course occurs
at night, the faculty should be available
prior to or after the course.
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| 8. |
Release Time
Release time from teaching duties may occur
in order to accomplish objectives for the
program, division, or college. This release
time must be approved by the Vice President
for Instruction and Student Services.
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| 9. |
Financial Exigency
During times of financial exigency,
as defined in Policy 4.24
– Financial Exigency, the President
may assign, without extra service compensation
as outlined in section 7, teaching loads to
faculty members that are in excess of the
number of the maximum contact hours listed
in section 4. |
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