Completing your Annual Faculty Proposal Proposal for Professional

Completing your Annual Faculty Proposal

Proposal for Professional Activities • This is typically due towards the end of the Spring II term. • You will be provided a template to fill out.

Proposal for Professional Activities Guidelines • Faculty are contracted to teach and mentor students and part-time faculty 4 of the 5 sessions of the academic year. • All faculty are expected to teach in Fall One. • NOTE: for this upcoming year, faculty are asked to teach two classes in both Fall sessions and one class in each of the Spring sessions to allow ample work time on the Assurance of Learning Curriculum Teams and the Blended Course Development Initiative.

Proposal for Professional Activities Guidelines • Faculty are required to teach 24 instructional credits during the academic year, subject to reassigned time. • Faculty will receive 6 instructional credits of reassigned time in the 2009/2010 academic year to participate in Assurance of Learning Curriculum Teams and the Blended Course Development Initiative. Activities performed in exchange for the reassigned time are subject to the approval of the Dean.

Proposal for Professional Activities Guidelines • Please schedule your teaching load to meet the following expectations: – Each class is reasonably expected to enroll 10 or more students; – Course selections should include core classes for degree program that incorporate student assignments that may be used for program outcomes to support the Assurance of Learning Initiative; and – Class is difficult to staff with part-time faculty depending on content expertise

Proposal for Professional Activities Guidelines • Faculty are expected to teach on ground classes at their campuses; however the four class minimum has been discontinued. – The number of online and on ground classes which comprise a Faculty’s workload must reflect the needs of the local campus and will be approved by the Dean in consultation with the Campus Director(s). • Faculty may request to teach two overload classes in an academic year. – One overload class may be scheduled in Spring Two of the academic year – The second overload class may be scheduled in Summer of the academic year. – Faculty teaching overload classes, either online or on ground, will be paid $3, 000 for overload lecture classes.

Proposal for Professional Activities – Guidelines for TEACHING (Weight 60%) A. Courses taught in contract workload B. Course equivalencies (practica, student teacher supervision) projected to equate to a course in load: (Nine equivalencies equals one class load. ) C. Courses requested as overload: D. In the academic year, what are your plans to remain current in your discipline? E. Assurance of Learning/Program Development (Please refer to the Annual Evaluative Criteria for Fulltime, Teaching Area, Items 4 and 5)

Proposal for Professional Activities – Guidelines for MENTORING (Weight 20%) This includes STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF. – You will indicate your days/times on campus for your required 8 hours. • NOTE: these hours are to be completed in either two or three days per week. – Describe what activities you plan to engage in to provide mentoring for your students, faculty and staff (Please refer to the Annual Evaluative Criteria for Fulltime Faculty: Mentoring Area - Items 1 and 2).

Proposal for Professional Activities – Guidelines for SERVICE & ADMINSTRATION (Weight 20%) – Internal Service (10%) • List your CUC committee membership for the 2009/2010 academic year at the institutional and school level as well as your contributions to the discipline. – External Service (10%) • List your planned engagement with the local professional community.