Nationally recognized technology certifications for which clock hours can be converted to credit hour equivalents, Certified Public Accountant, Juris Doctorate, and Professional Engineer may be used for promotion. Board of Trustees’ Action – In all cases of contract renewal or denial, granting of tenure, or promotion in rank, final actions rest with the Board of Trustees, acting to approve or not approve a recommendation from the President. Administrators are not eligible for tenure. Part-time or adjunct faculty members are hired on a semester basis as needed and are not eligible for tenure or promotion. If a faculty member desires to terminate his/her employment with HCC, he/she shall give notice not later than April 1, if he/she plans to leave at the end of the academic year, or November 1, if he/she wishes to terminate his/her employment at the end of the fall semester. It is expected a faculty member shall complete a semester once the semester has begun. Promotion and Earning Credits To earn credits toward promotion, full-time faculty members have a number of options available. In each option outlined below, the activities must be relevant to their professional assignments, especially classroom teaching, instructional design, or curriculum development. There are four options to earn credits towards promotion at HCC. These options are: 1. Academic graduate credits from coursework completed at a regionally accredited graduate school that are relevant and appropriate for professional development in the discipline or curriculum. Most credits applied toward promotion requirements should fall into this category . The credits may be part of an appropriate graduate degree or independent of a degree. 2. Academic graduate credit equivalents may be earned from time to time when HCC offers an academic course on campus at the graduate level for faculty/staff in a content area appropriate for their professional development. The course must meet the established criteria which include: 45 clock hours for a 3-credit course with twice as much study time required as class contact time; rigorous assessment of course outcomes; and a minimum passing grade of C. If the course is offered in a hybrid format, the face-to-face meeting time may be reduced and the remainder of the required course time will be devoted to work completed through the official HCC course management system. The instructor teaching the course must be qualified to teach graduate level coursework in the course discipline. Adequate record keeping for attendance and grades must be kept by the instructor and grading criteria must be clearly defined. Student grade reports will be created and submitted to the VPAASS who will forward them to Human Resources to be filed with the employee’s academic record materials. 3. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from a noncredit continuing education program which are documented with a certificate or letter from the organization sponsoring the program. The CEU credit award must be clearly stated in the documentation. Nationally, CEU programs must include 10 contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified
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