The college fully integrates the Office of Community and Workforce Programs (CWP) into its instructional portfolio, budgetarily and academically.
The college’s administrative procedure regarding the involvement of full-time faculty members in CWP is as follows:
- Credit courses and long-term noncredit (30 hours per semester) courses offered through CWP will be considered as part of a faculty member’s normal teaching load. Teaching overloads should be avoided. Rare exceptions may be made.
- When requesting that a full-time faculty member deliver a credit course through CWP, CWP staff must do so via the respective school director and do so far enough in advance to enable the school to plan the courses as part of its regular schedule.
- In order for full-time faculty members to receive consistent teaching evaluations, CWP will use SRTEs in the evaluation process for the credit courses it schedules.
- Short-term commitments with CWP, such as seminars, short courses, and workshops, are encouraged as long as they do not interfere with other faculty responsibilities. CWP activities of this nature are considered to fall under the category of scholarship and mastery of subject matter. During the academic year, faculty members will be allowed to spend an average of up to four days per month on CWP activities or a combination of CWP and consulting activities. These assignments may provide opportunities to undertake special research and scholarship projects, and faculty members may receive supplemental compensation for such activities as long as they are beyond the scope of their normal responsibilities (see administrative procedure BCWP4 Full-Time Faculty Member Supplemental Compensation for Instruction).
- Pursuant to the University’s policy regarding private consulting practices (AC80), faculty members may not engage in consulting activities that involve education and training without the approval of the respective school director and the senior associate dean for research and COO. This includes credit courses at other institutions, through World Campus, as well as informal programming, such as short courses or noncredit courses (see administrative procedure BCF20 – Faculty Teaching of Credit Courses at Other Institutions and World Campus).
- Faculty and staff members may not bring non-University groups on campus for education and training purposes without prior approval of the respective school director and the senior associate dean for research and COO.
Refer also to related University policies HR91, AD02, AD03, and AD55.
March 1990
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Revised June 17, 2015
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