Common use of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Technology Center Credit Clause in Contracts

Teaching, Learning, and Educational Technology Center Credit. The College’s Teaching, Learning, and Educational Technology Center (TLETC) offers some faculty development classes for credit toward column movement. Faculty may apply for up to ten (10) hours of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Technology Center credit toward column movement, per column. These hours may accumulate across academic years; however, repeated classes will not count toward column movement credit. The appropriate Vice President shall determine in advance whether courses fall within any of the foregoing, provided that in all instances to receive credit the course must be satisfactorily completed with a grade (if such be awarded) of "C" or higher or "Pass" on a pass/fail basis, and such credit shall have been awarded in graduate courses by regionally accredited institutions of higher learning. In lieu of academic credit, the appropriate Vice President may also approve work in institutes, seminars, other types of academic or non-academic experiences, continuing education courses, upper level under-graduate courses, and repeated courses where the course content has significantly changed. In such cases the Vice President will determine the equivalent academic credit. Such determination shall be on a case-by-case basis, and the determination in one instance shall not serve as a precedent. Such determination shall not be subject to the provisions of Article 7 (Grievance Procedure) hereof. The appropriate Vice President may also approve up to two (2) hours per column movement for participation in groups established by the College’s governance system, Higher Learning Commission Accreditation teams, or similar activity which benefits the College and our students. The individual faculty member will have to document twenty-five (25) hours of participation per one (1) equated credit hour through a process developed by the administration. A maximum of twenty-five (25) participation hours can be submitted per academic year. If less than twenty-five (25) hours are accumulated in an academic year, they may be carried forward to continue accumulation until the maximum is reached. Once a maximum of twenty-five