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

Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Professors. The primary duties of all faculty are to serve the educational needs of students. Consistent with each professor’s 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 professor 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 learning of knowledge and skills according to the course’s learning outcomes, to include designing assessments evaluating student work, 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 • Contributing to distribution-, program- and degree-level assessment. Library faculty have the following duties: • 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 • The instructional duties described above. 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 • The instructional duties described above. In addition to the classroom activities, Tenured and Probationary Professors are expected to do the following activities: • Designing and maintaining curriculum; • Teaching and coordinating integrated and/or interdisciplinary classes when applicable; • Consulting with, advising, and mentoring students during 5 posted student (office) hours weekly Non-instructional duties are those activities that are indirectly connected with instruction to support the program and include the following: • For tenured faculty, participate in a Teaching Excellence Community (TEC); • Provide coaching and advising to students, as developed by the College and approved by the Federation; • Coordinating and analyzing distribution-, program-, college core ability-, and degree- level assessment; • 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; and • For professional and technical faculty, contribute to program-specific accreditation when applicable.

Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Professors. The primary duties of all faculty are to serve the educational needs of students. Consistent with each each‌‌ professor’s 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 professor 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; • outline;‌  Instructing, including class management and classroom setup and maintenance; • maintenance;‌  Assessing student learning of knowledge and skills according to the course’s learning outcomes, to include designing assessments evaluating student work, and assigning end of quarter grades; • grades;‌  Consulting with students on questions related to courses and instruction; • instruction;‌  Staying current in the discipline and department; • department;‌  Staying current in teaching approaches and learning resources that support student learning; • learning;‌  Liaising with other professors relevant to specific course requirements; and • and‌  Contributing to distribution-, program- and degree-level assessment. Library Additional duties and responsibilities of library faculty have include:‌‌‌  Reviewing and improving the following duties: • Providing library’s collected materials;‌  Researching academic and professional support needs for students and staff; and‌  Supporting information literacy instruction through coordinating and teaching integrated information literacy workshops with other discipline faculty, creating online and video tutorialsworkshops, faculty consultations, and one- on-one student assistance; • Reviewing assistance.‌ Additional duties and improving the library’s physical materials and electronic resources; • Setting up, administering, and maintaining library management and cataloging systems and electronic resources; and • The instructional duties described above. Counseling responsibilities of counseling faculty have the following duties: • include:‌  Providing short-term mental health general counseling and appropriate referrals; • Maintaining Washington licensure as a counselor, clinical social worker or related field; • referrals;‌  Providing immediate support for students in crisis and referrals to appropriate resources; • and‌  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 • The instructional duties described above. instruction.‌ In addition to the classroom activities, Tenured and Probationary Professors are expected to do the following activities: • activities:‌  Designing and maintaining curriculum; • curriculum;‌  Teaching and coordinating integrated and/or interdisciplinary classes when applicable; • applicable;‌  Consulting with, advising, and mentoring students during 5 posted student (office) office hours weekly weekly‌ Non-instructional duties are those activities that are indirectly connected with instruction to support the program and include the following: • following:‌  For tenured faculty, participate in a Teaching Excellence Community (TEC); • TEC);‌  Provide coaching and advising to students, as developed by the College and approved by the Federation; • Federation;‌  Coordinating and analyzing distribution-, program-, college core ability-, and degree- level assessment; • assessment;‌  Contributing to the quarterly and annual schedule of classes for the discipline or program; • program;‌  Contributing to the consideration of applicants for adjunct teaching assignments in the discipline or program; • program;‌  Attending regular department, division, and faculty meetings; and • and‌  For professional and technical faculty, contribute to program-specific accreditation when applicable.applicable.‌

Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Professors. The primary duties of all faculty are to serve the educational needs of students. Consistent with each each‌‌ professor’s 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 professor 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; outline;‌ • Instructing, including class management and classroom setup and maintenance; maintenance;‌ • Assessing student learning of knowledge and skills according to the course’s learning outcomes, to include designing assessments evaluating student work, and assigning end of quarter grades; grades;‌ • Consulting with students on questions related to courses and instruction; instruction;‌ • Staying current in the discipline and department; department;‌ • Staying current in teaching approaches and learning resources that support student learning; learning;‌ • Liaising with other professors relevant to specific course requirements; and and‌ • Contributing to distribution-, program- and degree-level assessment. Library assessment.‌ Additional duties and responsibilities of library faculty have include:‌ • Reviewing and improving the following duties: library’s collected materials;‌ • Providing Researching academic and professional support needs for students and staff; and‌ • Supporting information literacy instruction through coordinating and teaching integrated information literacy workshops with other discipline faculty, creating online and video tutorialsworkshops, faculty consultations, and one- on-one student assistance; • Reviewing assistance.‌ Additional duties and improving the library’s physical materials and electronic resources; • Setting up, administering, and maintaining library management and cataloging systems and electronic resources; and • The instructional duties described above. Counseling responsibilities of counseling faculty have the following duties: include:‌ • Providing short-term mental health general counseling and appropriate referrals; • Maintaining Washington licensure as a counselor, clinical social worker or related field; referrals;‌ • Providing immediate support for students in crisis and referrals to appropriate resources; and‌ • 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 • The instructional duties described above. instruction.‌ In addition to the classroom activities, Tenured and Probationary Professors are expected to do the following activities: activities:‌ • Designing and maintaining curriculum; curriculum;‌ • Teaching and coordinating integrated and/or interdisciplinary classes when applicable; applicable;‌ • Consulting with, advising, and mentoring students during 5 posted student (office) office hours weekly weekly‌ Non-instructional duties are those activities that are indirectly connected with instruction to support the program and include the following: following:‌ • For tenured faculty, participate in a Teaching Excellence Community (TEC); TEC);‌ • Provide coaching and advising to students, as developed by the College and approved by the Federation; Federation;‌ • Coordinating and analyzing distribution-, program-, college core ability-, and degree- level assessment; assessment;‌ • Contributing to the quarterly and annual schedule of classes for the discipline or program; program;‌ • Contributing to the consideration of applicants for adjunct teaching assignments in the discipline or program; program;‌ • Attending regular department, division, and faculty meetings; and and‌ • For professional and technical faculty, contribute to program-specific accreditation when applicable.applicable.‌