Appointment and Orientation. A. New instructional Faculty shall be required to attend an orientation prior to the beginning of their first Fall contract. Annual contract Faculty shall participate in pedagogical and discipline-specific training for up to thirty (30) hours per semester for each year they are on annual contract. Included within these hours are department meetings; meetings with mentors; and participation in Orientation, Convocation, the Professional Development Institute, and other organized professional development. The topics of the seminar series are at the discretion of the College. New instructional Faculty shall complete SJR State’s Distance Learning Academy and Active Learning Workshop as part of this seminar series as directed by their Xxxx/Director, regardless of previous teaching experience at other institutions.
B. The College reserves the right to assign bargaining unit members to teach other courses within the same discipline or in other disciplines for which they are qualified to teach. The College also reserves the right to require bargaining unit members to work at any campus/site or in any modality based on institutional need.
C. Faculty will not be assigned to more than one campus on the same workday as part of their base teaching load; exceptions may be necessary according to program needs. Full-time Faculty will not as a rule be scheduled more than half-time online unless their programs/courses are marked as online/hybrid programs or enrollment trends or safety concerns dictate the need for additional or fewer online course sections.
D. Bargaining unit members may be required to teach in or move between both credit and clock hour programs.
Appointment and Orientation. A. All Faculty, Librarian and Counselor vacancies shall be filled through a competitive process. The Xxxxxxx, in consultation with Human Resources, is the appropriate administrative authority in compliance with SACSCOC criteria and College policy and shall establish minimum criteria for Faculty positions. The Xxxxxxx will maintain a written procedure, approved by the President, for the hiring process, which may be changed at the discretion of the College.
B. New Faculty shall be required to attend a paid orientation prior to the beginning of their first Fall contract. Annual contract Faculty shall participate in a seminar series for up to thirty (30) hours per semester for each year they are on annual contract. The topics of the seminar series are at the discretion of the College.
Appointment and Orientation. 579 A. New instructional Faculty shall be required to attend an orientation prior to the beginning of 580 their first Fall contract. New annual contract Faculty shall participate in pedagogical and 581 discipline-specific training for up to thirty (30) fifteen (15) hours per semester for the first 582 two years each year they are on annual contract. The topics of the seminar series are at the 583 discretion of the College. New instructional Faculty shall complete SJR State’s Distance 584 Learning Academy and Active Learning Workshop as part of this seminar series as directed 585 by their Xxxx/Director, regardless of previous teaching experience at other institutions. 586 587 B. The College reserves the right to require assign bargaining unit members to teach in other 588 disciplines or other courses within the same discipline for which they are qualified. The 589 College shall not assign bargaining unit members to teach on two campuses in same day, or 590 at all three campuses per week (unless faculty request to do so). Aside from emergency 591 situations, the College shall not require bargaining unit members to teach more than two 592 online sections per term (unless faculty request to do so). The College also reserves the right 593 to require bargaining unit members to work at any campus/site or modality based on 594 institutional need. 595 596 C. Bargaining unit members may be required to teach in or move between both credit and clock 597 hour programs. 598
