Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 12, December 1, 2024
(1) Each community
college board of education shall establish a personnel policy statement,
including a policy on instructor selection and development that must include,
but need not be limited to, the following:
(a)
Definitions of the main terms used in the policy;
(b) Institutional standards for instructor
qualifications. (Standards for teachers of lower division collegiate courses
must include a master's degree in a subject area closely related to that in
which the instructor will be teaching; however in subject areas in which
individuals have demonstrated their competencies and served in professional
fields and in cases in which documentation to support the individual's
proficiency and high level of competency can be assembled, the master's degree
requirement may be waived by the college president or substituted according to
the community college's personnel policy.);
(c) Position descriptions;
(d) Procedures for instructor approval,
including period of instructor approval;
(e) Procedures for providing individual,
written notice of reasonable assurance of continued employment to all employees
who are to perform services in the same or a similar capacity during a
subsequent academic year or term or in the period immediately following a
recess period. Such notice shall be given by May 30 of each year for employees
employed as of that date and as of the date of hire for employees employed
subsequent to May 30. Pursuant to ORS
341.547,
faculty members on annual or indefinite tenure, classified staff members on
regular status and management service employees are considered to have been
given notice for the purposes of this section;
(f) A statement regarding academic freedom
and responsibility;
(g) Procedures
for faculty development for full-time and part-time instructors, that provides
opportunities to continuously improve their knowledge and performance and is
consistent with the standards and requirements published by the college's
institutional accrediting agency..
(h) Procedures for staff
evaluation;
(i) Grievance and
appeals procedures;
(j) Affirmative
action and nondiscrimination practices;
(k) College organization; and
(l) Methods of policy development and
review.
(2) Personnel
policies adopted by community college boards shall be filed with the Director
within one year following establishment of the community college district.
Thereafter, each college shall file annually, between December 1 and January 1,
any policy revisions. Policies posted on the community college's publicly
accessible website, Human Resources section, are considered to have met the
filing requirement if the appropriate 'effective date' of the policy is also
noted. In the event the governing board of the community college fails to enact
the personnel policies as required by subsection (1) of this rule, the Director
may withhold the next scheduled Community College Support Fund payment until
such personnel policies are enacted.
(3) Each community college board shall
develop a policy outlining the procedure for faculty selection. The policy
shall include procedures by which the college will maintain records documenting
the faculty member's credentials, professional development activities and other
information supporting the faculty member's instructional assignment.
(a) This includes documentation and rationale
for any waiver of required education, relative to the faculty member's
instructional assignment, as described (1) above.
(b) In no case shall the process for faculty
selection fall below those standards and requirements set forth in the most
recent guidance from the college's accrediting agency.
(4) Faculty for upper division courses within
applied baccalaureate programs:
(a) The school
must obtain and keep official transcripts and resumes for all teaching faculty
within any applied baccalaureate program.
(b) The school shall ensure that all teachers
are individually qualified by education and experience to give expert
instruction or evaluation in their specialties. Unless an exception is approved
by the college's President because of sufficient compensatory qualification,
teachers shall be qualified for the various levels of instruction or evaluation
as described below, with degrees earned from schools that are accredited by a
federally recognized accrediting agency.
(c) A person who does not hold the
appropriate level and major degree as stated in subsection (A) through (C) of
this paragraph may demonstrate qualification by showing at least 12 semester or
15 quarter credits in the field at a level higher than the current teaching
assignment combined with an appropriate depth of relevant professional
experience in the field, as evidenced on a resume. Teaching experience cannot
be used to replace professional experience if this option is exercised, except
for teacher education programs.
(A) Teachers
in programs leading to degrees in the fine arts, including but not limited to
art, music, dance, cooking, theater, photography, writing and other programs
involving a significant creative element, may demonstrate qualifications with a
documented combination of academic and creative work.
(B) Standards applicable to bachelor's degree
programs: A teacher within a program offering bachelor's degrees ordinarily
shall possess a graduate degree appropriate to the subject taught or evaluated
except that compensatory nonacademic qualifications such as an appropriate
depth of relevant professional experience in the field, will be more readily
accepted by the President in programs leading to occupational degrees,
professional licensure, or within the fine arts.
(C) A teacher of an academic or scientific
discipline within an occupational or professional degree program ordinarily
shall possess the appropriate degree in the discipline rather than a
non-disciplinary occupational or professional degree. However, lower-division
undergraduate courses may be taught by those with non-disciplinary degrees who
have demonstrable and extensive acquaintance with the discipline.
Publications: Publications referenced are available from the
agency.
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
341.015,
ORS
341.535 & ORS
341.547