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FACULTY RESPONSIBILITIES AND OBLIGATIONS This section is designed to clarify the responsibilities and obligations which faculty members are expected to fulfill as employees of the College. FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE FACULTY The primary responsibility of a faculty member in the Virginia Community College System shall be to provide quality instruction for you. The major emphasis shall be on good teaching by working with you in classrooms, laboratories, individual conferences, and related activities to help you develop your interests and abilities to your fullest capacity in order to become a better person, a better worker, and a better citizen. As a part of this primary responsibility, the College expects each faculty member to perform the following:
STATEMENT ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS As teachers, faculty members encourage the free pursuit of learning. They hold before you the best scholarly standards of their discipline. They demonstrate respect for you as an individual and adhere to their proper role as intellectual guides and counselors. Every effort is made to foster honest academic conduct and to assure that faculty evaluation of you reflects your true merit. Faculty respect the confidential nature of their relationship with students. They protect your academic freedom. If a teaching faculty member must miss a class, he/she must notify his/her division chair as far in advance as possible so that adequate provision can be made for the class. As soon as it is obvious that a teaching faculty member will be late for his/her class, you are responsible for inquiring at the division office, or the Office of Continuing Education (for night classes), concerning the absence. A representative from the division office or the Office of Continuing Education will tell the class whether or not to wait for the teaching faculty member. Any deviation from the final examination schedule must be approved by the provost or his/her designee. Faculty members are expected to arrange their schedules so as to be available on campus to work with individual students and to participate in student advisement and registration. Full-time faculty members are required to post on or near their office door a minimum of ten hours per week as office hours to be available to work with students on their individual academic and occupational problems. Five of these hours will be on a fixed schedule (noted on the posted copy) at which time the faculty member will be in his/her office. The remaining five hours (noted on the posted copy) will be for scheduled appointments made through either the faculty member or the secretary serving the faculty member. The five hours for appointments may vary from week to week. Part-time faculty are required to provide for student advising (conferences) and related activities and they will inform you of the contact details, including location and time. Each faculty advisor is expected to maintain a schedule of office hours throughout the year so that he/she may be accessible to students he/she is advising. If you are admitted to a program, you will be assigned a faculty advisor. The faculty advisor will be a member of the division that is responsible for the program in which you have been accepted and, because of his/her knowledge of the technical and academic requirements of the program, will become your academic point of reference within the College. If you are not enrolled in a specific curricular major and not pursuing a degree or certificate award (non-curricular students), you may seek assistance from faculty advisors and counselors to select courses during registration periods. When assistance is needed prior to registration, you may seek the help of counselors. Collegewide coordination of the objectives and the content for courses offered on more than one campus and for sequence courses is provided so you will be able to continue parts of a sequence on a different campus and so faculty will know what concepts you should have covered. Teaching faculty are required to keep your final examination papers and evaluative instruments on file for one semester, in case any question arises concerning grades. You have the right to review your final exam for one semester after the end of the term in which the final exam was taken. When the grade of incomplete ("I") is awarded, requirements for satisfactory completion will be established through student/faculty consultation. If course work has not been completed by the end of the subsequent semester (excluding summer), another grade ("A," "B," "C," "D," "F," "P," "R," "S," "U," or "W") must be awarded by the instructor, based upon the course work which has been completed. See the College Catalog for further grade policies. At least once each year, each full-time faculty member is evaluated by his/her supervisor. Additionally, an annual student evaluation of faculty is required as a component of the evaluation of full-time faculty. A student will administer the evaluation instrument while the faculty member being evaluated is out of the classroom. A student will collect the completed evaluations and deliver them to the respective division office. The student evaluations will be sent to the respective faculty member after grades are submitted. All faculty are encouraged to elicit student comment from all courses each semester. All adjunct faculty in their first academic semester of employment at the College will use the "Form for Student Profile of Adjunct Faculty" (or an approved substitute form) to collect student evaluations of their teaching. These forms should be presented and collected by someone other than the adjunct faculty member being evaluated and returned to the adjunct faculty member's supervisor prior to review by the adjunct faculty member. After their initial semester of teaching, adjunct faculty are encouraged to use the student evaluation form each semester.
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