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Enhancing Part-Time Faculty Practices: Updates on Certification and Professional Development

This session, held on March 6, 2012, focuses on the essential updates regarding instructor certification for part-time faculty. It contrasts current practices with proposed changes, highlighting the status of proposals, required administrative code modifications, and the implications of state aid penalties based on certification status. The discussion encompasses teacher evaluations, frequency, and bottlenecks in assessment processes. Additionally, it reviews future practices for course assignments, committee participation, and professional development funding to support part-time faculty in achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness.

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Enhancing Part-Time Faculty Practices: Updates on Certification and Professional Development

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  1. Part Time FacultyBreakout Session Convocation – March 6,2012

  2. Instructor Certification update • Current Practices vs. Proposal • Status of Proposal • Administrative Code change required • Background • State Aid Penalties • Calculated as a percentage of the uncertified salary/wages and fringe benefits, greater than $25,000 • Year 1: 50% of wages/benefits • Year 2: 75% of wages/benefits • Year 3: 100% of wages/benefits • MATC Penalties • 2008-09 academic year: $182,370 • 2009-10 academic year: $63,705

  3. Certification Penalties- WTCS

  4. Teacher Evaluations • Current Requirements • Frequency • Probationary- 2x over first 6 semesters • Non-Probationary- 1x every 3 years • Content • Classroom observation • Other elements (student, peer, etc.) • Final evaluation completed by Associate Dean/ Campus Admin • Current Practices • Frequency • Probationary- not bad, Non-Probationary- less so. • Bottleneck at Dean level, evaluations not being completed • Future Practices

  5. Course Assignments • Current Requirements • Order of assignments • FT regular workload • Non-Probationary PT faculty up to normal workload • FT overload • Probationary PT faculty • Responsibility for assignments • Strictly a managerial responsibility • Current Practices • Order of Assignments • Who is making assignments? • For more info- attend the Union Lunch and Learn • Future Practices

  6. College Committee Work • Current practices • Major vs. Minor Committees • Union solicitation of interest • Future practices

  7. Professional Development • Current Practices • Part-time Faculty Professional Development fund • Non-probationary • $500 cap • Center-funded activities • CETL Courses • Future Practices

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