CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY


Standard 5:  Teaching and Advising

Action Plan

Section

Subject

Data

Source

5.1

Definition of faculty categories

and description of role and

purposes

Statement of the faculty categories and role of adjunct faculty

AAUP contract

5.2

Faculty qualifications

Definition of faculty qualifications;

Number of faculty in each category

AAUP contract

Human Resources

5.3*

Number of faculty and time

commitment

Number of faculty with credit overloads

AAUP contract

AAUP

Load credit reports

5.4

Recruitment and selection of

faculty

University policies for faculty selection;

Example of faculty contract extended to candidates;

Summary of search results in past year

AAUP contract

Multicultural Affairs

Human Resources

5.5

Graduate assistants

Statement concerning the role of teaching assistants;

Process of selection, training, and evaluation

Paulette Lemma

5.6

Faculty contracts

Description of AAUP contract;

Salary and benefits associated with each rank

AAUP contract

5.7

Faculty assignments /

workloads

Summary of faculty workload and assignments;

Number of faculty with credit overloads;

Amount of reassigned time for administrative tasks, research, advising, other teaching (e.g., honors, FYE, etc)

AAUP contract

AAUP

Chair’s surveys?

Load credit reports

5.8

Undue dependence on part

time faculty

Number of part-time faculty and part-time to full-time faculty ratio;
Number and percentage of sections taught by part-time faculty
 

AAUP contract

AAUP

Chair’s survey?

5.15

Instructional techniques and

delivery systems

Different types of instruction and number of courses that are remedial and advanced (honors) Use of technology in classrooms (smart rooms, Vista);

Examples of creative activity for students; Number of faculty offering courses in each department

ITS

Registrar’s Office

Banner

 

5.16

Enhance quality of teaching

and learning

Support for the quality of teaching and learning;

Encouraging experimentation;

Assessing teaching and learning;

Using assessment results to develop teaching and learning;

Adequacy of support for teaching

Interviews with Deans; Summary of university

initiatives;

Faculty grants for teaching; CTELD activities;

Teaching Excellence Committee;

Summary of student evaluations

5.17

Academic advising

Institutional definition of academic advising

Students’ perception of advising

University resources committed to advising

Faculty advisee loads

Faculty/studenthandbook

Student satisfaction survey

Prior reports on advising

Chair survey

5.18

Academic integrity

Examples of academic integrity awareness;

Number of students participating in these programs;

Policies for dealing with academic misconduct;

Number of academic misconduct reports

Learning Center

CCSU website

Student handbook

Library (Emily Chase)

Judicial Officer

 

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