SECTION DCB.3

PERSONNEL
EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
FACULTY WORK WEEK AND STUDENT SUPPORT HOURS

Procedure

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DEFINITIONS

 

For the purposes of this procedure, “student support hours” are defined as time faculty members are required to be available to students outside of the classroom. Student support hours require the physical presence in the office on the campus the faculty is assigned to for face to face classes, and a virtual presence for faculty who teach online or hybrid courses.

 

Faculty at Navarro College are professional personnel and their primary concern will be students, teaching, and learning. A secondary concern will be an active involvement with the institution and the community it serves.

 

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EXPECTATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS

 

During the fall and spring semesters, all full-time faculty members shall be required to maintain at least ten student support hours per week to be available to assist students. Eight of the ten hours shall be scheduled student support hours. Faculty are required to be available at their assigned Navarro College location for at least six student support hours each week. Faculty should be available to support students both in person and virtually during the six on-location student support hours each week. The remaining two scheduled support hours may be offered virtually and may be scheduled outside of normal business hours.  Two of the required ten hours may be unscheduled student support hours. The purpose of unscheduled student support hours is to better serve the needs of students who may not be able to participate in student support hours in a face-to-face environment or during regularly scheduled times. Faculty may be available for unscheduled student support hours via electronic communication or at a Navarro College location. Students typically participate in unscheduled student support hours via electronic communication. Scheduled student support hours are not meant to be restricted to a specific location, such as faculty offices. At the discretion of the appropriate dean, student support hours may be provided at other approved locations.  Approved locations should be easily accessible, student-friendly, and appropriate for the assistance being provided. Faculty who teach courses that are a combination of lecture and lab may reduce their required student support hours by one-half (1/2) of the number of scheduled hours for lab, to a maximum of five hours.

 

Student support hours are to be scheduled in addition to the fifteen (15) per week teaching load equivalent and other professional responsibilities at the college in which faculty members may participate.

 

Time expended in the performance of duties associated with an overload assignment is to be time above the minimum hours described above.

 

 

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Approved: 2015
Updated: 2020, 2024
Reviewed: 2022