Associate Faculty Certificate Program

This program is Valencia’s way of recognizing and rewarding those Adjunct Faculty members who take advantage of the professional development activities that are provided by the college. It is a compensation enhancement model which is aligned with the current compensation enhancement program for full-time faculty member’s professional development. 

 

The current Adjunct pay scale is our new Step One, no faculty development necessary.

 

Step Two: increase in adjunct pay by $33.00 per credit hour taught (a 3 credit course would provide a $99.00 increase), after 60 hours of Adjunct Faculty Development have been voluntarily accumulated.  The new title of Associate Faculty is earned at that point.

 

Associate Faculty

60 hours are needed to earn the increase in pay and the new title.

 

30 hours for Teaching in the Learning College (TLC) ScenariosOnline

                        1-20 hours for Faculty To Faculty

                        20 hours for “Succeeding in Online Groupwork,” ScenariosOnline

20 hours for “Doing the Write Thing,” Developmental Education ScenariosOnline

20 hours for “Making It All Add Up,” Developmental Math ScenariosOnline

Variable hours for approved faculty development and technology workshops

                        Variable hours for facilitation of approved faculty development

 

60 hours, including completion of the TLC ScenariosOnline, is required to achieve the Associate Faculty status. The TLC serves as our foundation course in Community College teaching.  [Adjuncts who have already accomplished 60 hours of this work will be granted credit and brought into the system as Associate Faculty.]  It is possible to earn 60 hours within one academic year. A 3-year time limit applies to hours earned as well as the Associate Faculty status.  Renewal of the status depends on having accomplished 60 additional hours during the intervening three years (for instance, taking 20 hours per year would be one way to keep the status current).

 

As of Fall Term, 2005, a professional development transcript of approved courses, workshops, projects, events, etc., has been available to faculty through the Atlas system.  Upon receipt of an Atlas transcript showing 60 hours as outlined above, the Faculty Development Coordinator will notify Human Resources to award the new title and approve the increment in pay, beginning with the next semester.  The adjunct faculty member must initiate all paperwork for the increase, nothing is automatic.