| Revision Responsibility: |
Vice President for Academic Affairs |
| Responsible Executive Officer: |
Vice President for Academic Affairs |
Purpose
Identifies the parameters for summer teaching load and need for posting and keeping office/student engagement hours by faculty members who accept summer teaching assignments.
Policy
For full-time faculty, 8 semester credit hours constitutes a full-time teaching load for the entire summer term(s). Compensation for full-time faculty members during summer teaching will be based on their base salary. An amount of 1/32 of the nine-month base for each equated load hour instructed will be used to calculate the summer payroll. As required by TBR policy, the maximum summer pay may not exceed 25 percent of the preceding academic year salary.
The above compensation provisions do not apply to campus-based study abroad programs or study abroad programs included in the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies (TnCIS).
- Compensation for these programs will be determined by the institution or the Executive Director of TnCIS, respectively.
Faculty members who accept summer teaching assignments are required to keep office and/or student engagement hours. Faculty members are required to schedule one office and/or student engagement hour per week for each credit hour taught regardless of delivery mode. Faculty shall post their schedules within the college learning management system and provide a copy of their schedule to the Academic Division Office. Faculty may post a copy of their schedules on their office doors. This practice provides students the necessary information to locate faculty for consultation. These schedules should be shared no later than one week after the beginning of classes. In addition, all faculty members working during the summer are expected to assist in student advising, student success events, and other activities as directed by the academic dean.
Remote office/student engagement hours are not required but are an option for faculty. Faculty may complete no more than 50% of the required office/student engagement hours remotely during the summer term(s). Direct supervisors may provide approval to amend this requirement with a written memo of intent to the Academic Division Dean. Faculty must have access to all necessary technology at their remote location. The responsibility for acquiring this technology rests with the faculty member and not the College. Remote office hours can originate from a faculty office or off-campus location that has good internet access.
Scheduling of office and/or student engagement hours will require coordination through the department heads and/or division dean to assure there is on campus departmental coverage at all times during the course of the work week.
Student engagement hours are defined as time faculty spends interacting with students at school-sponsored events (Renfro, 2017*).
Scheduled class meetings are an implied contract between the college and the student. Instructors are expected to meet the duration of the scheduled times except when sound educational judgment, compliance with approved college activities, or professional travel dictate otherwise. In those cases, compensatory assignments or activities should be made.
Faculty members who have terminated their employment as full-time faculty members and are employed to teach summer courses are classified as adjunct faculty in all subsequent teaching. For purposes of pay, this change in status from full-time to adjunct occurs on the effective date of the termination.
See Policy 03:04:00.
*Renfro, B. D. 2017. The effect of student characteristics on the frequency of faculty-student interaction in the community college. Dissertation: Iowa State University.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1980509
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