Common use of Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Faculty Clause in Contracts

Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Faculty. ‌ The primary duties of all faculty are to serve the educational needs of students. Consistent with each faculty assignment, these duties include instructional and non- instructional activities within their assigned department/discipline. Instructional duties are those that are directly connected with instruction and include the following: • Establish regular availability to meet with students weekly and state instructions for scheduling and meeting access in course syllabi. Availability may be by appointment and/or drop-in and student hours may be held in-person or virtually, as appropriate for class modality and student access. The faculty must provide a minimum of 5 hours of available time to meet with students per week. • Designing and developing classes aligned with the student learning outcomes of current course outline; • Instructing, including class management and classroom setup and maintenance; • Assessing student knowledge skills, and abilities according to the course's learning outcomes, to include designing assessments evaluating student work, assessing and recording College-Wide Abilities outcomes and assigning end of quarter grades; • Consulting with students on questions related to courses and instruction; • Staying current in the discipline and department; • Staying current in teaching approaches and learning resources that support student learning; • Liaising with other professors relevant to specific course requirements; and • Designing and maintaining curriculum; • Teaching and coordinating integrated and/or interdisciplinary classes when applicable; • Collecting, analyzing and using data related to course, program/department, College-Wide Abilities-, and degree outcomes to improve student success; • Providing information literacy instruction through coordinating and teaching integrated information literacy workshops with other discipline faculty, creating online and video tutorials, faculty consultations, and one- on-one student assistance; • Reviewing and improving the library's physical materials and electronic resources; • Setting up, administering, and maintaining library management and cataloging systems and electronic resources; and • Assist students with general library services and questions as needed for their academic success. • Providing short-term mental health counseling and appropriate referrals; • Maintaining Washington licensure as a counselor, clinical social worker or related field; • Providing immediate support for students in crisis and referrals to appropriate resources; • Implementing student success workshops, including needs assessment, preparation, and instruction; • Consulting with faculty/staff on risk assessment, behavioral management and support for students with mental health concerns; • Leading campus-wide mental health promotion to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ student help-seeking and mental wellness; • Providing instruction for guest lectures integrated into credit-bearing classes and; • Assisting students with general mental health questions and services as needed for their academic success. • For tenured faculty, participating in a Teaching Excellence Community (TEC); • For tenure track faculty, participating in a Probationary Review Committee (PRC); • Providing mentoring to students, as developed by the College and approved by the Federation; • Contributing to the quarterly and annual schedule of classes for the discipline or program; • Contributing to the consideration of applicants for adjunct teaching assignments in the discipline or program; • Attending regular department, division, and faculty meetings; • For professional and technical faculty, contributing to program-specific accreditation when applicable; and • Attending South Puget Sound Community College's graduation ceremony (commencement).

Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Faculty. ‌ The primary duties of all faculty are to serve the educational needs of students. Consistent with each faculty assignment, these duties include instructional and non- non-instructional activities within their assigned department/discipline. Instructional duties are those that are directly connected with instruction and include the following: • Establish regular availability to meet with students weekly and state instructions for scheduling and meeting access in course syllabi. Availability may be by appointment and/or drop-in and student hours may be held in-person or virtually, as appropriate for class modality and student access. The faculty must provide a minimum of 5 hours of available time to meet with students per week. • Designing and developing classes aligned with the student learning outcomes of current course outline; • Instructing, including class management and classroom setup and maintenance; • Assessing student knowledge skills, and abilities according to the course's ’s learning outcomes, to include designing assessments evaluating student work, assessing and recording College-Wide Abilities outcomes and assigning end of quarter grades; • Consulting with students on questions related to courses and instruction; • Staying current in the discipline and department; • Staying current in teaching approaches and learning resources that support student learning; • Liaising with other professors relevant to specific course requirements; and • Designing and maintaining curriculum; • Teaching and coordinating integrated and/or interdisciplinary classes when applicable; • Collecting, analyzing and using data related to course, program/department, College-Wide Abilities-, and degree outcomes to improve student success; success;- • Providing information literacy instruction through coordinating and teaching integrated information literacy workshops with other discipline faculty, creating online and video tutorials, faculty consultations, and one- on-one student assistance; • Reviewing and improving the library's ’s physical materials and electronic resources; • Setting up, administering, and maintaining library management and cataloging systems and electronic resources; and • Assist students with general library services and questions as needed for their academic success. In addition, counseling faculty have the following duties: • Providing short-term mental health counseling and appropriate referrals; • Maintaining Washington licensure as a counselor, clinical social worker or related field; • Providing immediate support for students in crisis and referrals to appropriate resources; • Implementing student success workshops, including needs assessment, preparation, and instruction; • Consulting with faculty/staff on risk assessment, behavioral management and support for students with mental health concerns; • Leading campus-wide mental health promotion to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ student help-seeking and mental wellness; • Providing instruction for guest lectures integrated into credit-bearing classes and; • Assisting students with general mental health questions and services as needed for their academic success. Non-instructional duties are those activities, expected of all full-time faculty, that are indirectly connected with instruction to support the program and include the following: • For tenured faculty, participating in a Teaching Excellence Community (TEC); • For tenure track faculty, participating in a Probationary Review Committee (PRC); • Providing mentoring to students, as developed by the College and approved by the Federation; • Contributing to the quarterly and annual schedule of classes for the discipline or program; • Contributing to the consideration of applicants for adjunct teaching assignments in the discipline or program; • Attending regular department, division, and faculty meetings; • For professional and technical faculty, contributing to program-specific accreditation when applicable; and • Attending South Puget Sound Community College's ’s graduation ceremony (commencement).