• Select or assist in the selection of textbooks, course packs, open electronic resources (OER’s) and all ancillary materials for assigned courses; • Teach day or evening classes on-campus or at off-campus sites, in face-to-face, online, and hybrid delivery models as part of the regularly assigned teaching load; • Maintain standards of teaching worthy of accreditation (i.e. teach in fields of their expertise); • Offer rigorous courses that challenge all enrolled students; • Search for ways to improve instruction through membership in professional associations, attendance at meetings and workshops, and review of current instructional materials in their field; • Utilize a variety of teaching methods in an effort to meet student needs; • Act as an advisor to students on programs of study and course problems; • Submit grade reports on time and provide information requested by appropriate administrative personnel; • Post and schedule a minimum of five regular office hours per week (three hours for faculty hired before July 1, 1996) with provisions for seeing students at other times. This schedule should be reported to the appropriate Division Director and the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services; • Attend all scheduled and special faculty meetings as well as the meetings of other groups to which the individual is assigned (for example, division committee or special assignment); • Function on faculty committees by assuming responsibility for attendance and an equitable share of the work of such committees; • Follow the established institutional channels of communication. All concerns should be raised first with the Division Director, and, if unresolved, referred to the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Services; • Participate in the College’s communications network by picking up mail regularly from assigned mailboxes, as well as checking voicemail and e-mail regularly; • Support and attend all regularly scheduled academic functions such as workshops, special colloquia and convocations, and graduation ceremonies; and • Support the stated mission, objectives, purposes, policies, and regulations of the College and interpret them faithfully and accurately to the students and the public. Teaching Load The base faculty teaching load shall be fifteen (15) credit-hour equivalents. For most faculty, this would mean fifteen (15) hours and fifteen (15) credits of base load, since lecture or didactic hours are treated one-for-one in student contact hour to credit equivalency. Full-time faculty must be at load before an adjunct is allowed to teach . In general, credit hours assigned to clinical sections is a ratio of one to four (1:4). Therefore, one credit hour for four hours of instruction would be assigned. A load multiplier of .75 is used in equating labs, in calculating a base load of fifteen (15) credits. These courses or sections have more clock hours of instruction than credit hours assigned (i.e., one credit: three hours of instruction or 1:3).
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