Qualifications for Initial Placement. A. The qualifications in a job announcement shall specify the teaching field(s). Initial placement on the salary schedule is dependent on the degree and the relevant experience in the teaching field.
B. The placement criteria are guidelines for initial placement. However, in cases of special need or for special qualifications, the Employer reserves the right to determine the initial salary placement of a faculty member at any step on the salary schedule. Original salary placement shall be documented on an “original step placement form” and filed in the faculty member’s personnel file.
C. A Master's degree in the instructional area of the teaching assignment or a related field is required for faculty teaching courses with transfer credit and for faculty employed as Librarians and Counselors.
D. Although a Master's degree is preferred, only a Bachelor's degree is required for faculty when:
1. Teaching professional technical courses, post-secondary remedial credit and/or Developmental Education courses, provided they have three (3) years of significant work experience. For the purpose of this Section, professional technical courses shall mean those courses designated in the approved course outline with a reimbursement code of 21 or 22 (as designated for reimbursement from the Oregon Department of Education for Vocational Preparation and/or Vocational Supplemental courses); or
2. Only a Bachelor’s degree is required by the State of Oregon and/or other accrediting bodies.
3. Faculty members employed as of January 28, 2003 who are teaching professional technical courses, post-secondary remedial credit and/or Developmental Education courses and have at least a Master’s degree, shall not have their salary reduced by the adoption of this Section.
E. It is agreed that for technical programs for which academic degrees are not the standard determining factor for mastery in the field, such as culinary arts, an equivalency of industry-recognized credentials or certification may be used for determining initial placement in lieu of academic degrees as listed under 10.4B.
F. A faculty member with a visiting appointment which is grant or contract funded shall not teach on-campus courses that are usually taught by faculty with tenured or tenure track appointments, or be used in any way to replace or displace a faculty member with a tenured or tenure track appointment.
G. All degrees used for salary schedule placement shall be from accredited institutions.
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Qualifications for Initial Placement. 17 A. The qualifications in a job announcement shall specify the teaching field(s). Initial 18 placement on the salary schedule is dependent on the degree and the relevant 19 experience in the teaching field. 20
21 B. The placement criteria are guidelines for initial placement. However, in cases of 22 special need or for special qualifications, the Employer reserves the right to 23 determine the initial salary placement of a faculty member at any step on the salary 24 schedule. Original salary placement shall be documented on an “original step 25 placement form” and filed in the faculty member’s personnel file. 26
27 C. A Master's degree in the instructional area of the teaching assignment (preferred) 28 or a related field, or a Master’s degree plus at least 12 graduate credits in the 29 instructional area of the teaching assignment is required for faculty teaching Lower 30 Division Collegiate courses and for faculty employed as Librarians, Counselors, 31 and Learning Resource Faculty. 32
33 D. The faculty minimum qualifications outside the area of Lower Division Collegiate 34 credit include:
36 1. For teaching career-technical courses, professional certifications or an AAS 37 degree in a subject area closely related to that in which the instructor will 38 be teaching, and a minimum of 3 years significant and related experience is 39 required and a Bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred. 40
41 2. For teaching Developmental Education and Adult Basic Skills classes, a 42 Bachelor’s degree in a closely related field is required and a Master’s degree 43 is preferred.
45 E. A faculty member with a visiting appointment which is grant or contract funded 46 shall not teach on-campus courses that are usually taught by faculty with tenured 47 or tenure track appointments, or be used in any way to replace or displace a faculty 48 member with a tenured or tenure track appointment.
1 F. All degrees used for salary schedule placement shall be from accredited institutions. 2
3 G. An official transcript listing the last degree conferred must be on file with Human 5 members must provide an official transcript to Human Resources upon hire. All 6 current faculty members who currently do not have an official transcript on file in 7 their personnel file shall be required to provide an official transcript within forty- 8 five (45) days of request from Human Resources. 9
