Request for Tenure Track Faculty
Program: Marine Science Technology/Biological Science Position
Initiator: Teresa Sholars
1. Program(s) Supported by the Discipline: MST AA degree; MST certificate of
Achievement; Biological and Physical Science Program and all GE courses
2. Job Description. Separate requests are required for each position sought. Please indicate
if this request is site specific and the location(s).
This position was held by Greg Grantham who retired in May 2012. Since Fall 2012
semester, Teresa Sholars has directed the students who are in the MST program and hopefully
will graduate this Spring 2013 semester. Our local population for new students has declined
because they have been counseled to not depend on the program and/or pursue a MST
degree/certificate due to the future uncertainty of the program since a full-time faculty
replacement was not hired for 2012-2013.
In light of this, we have hired new adjuncts to teach classes that are required for the
program. Unfortunately in OCEAN 10 and OCEAN 11 there was a 50% drop rate in enrollment
(in Fall 2012) due to the inexperience of the brand new instructor (who we did not hire back).
Also, there was a similar drop rate in METEO 1, an elective for the program. This Spring 2013
semester, we have hired another new adjunct to teach the required BIO 25 (Marine and
Anadromous Fishes). Seasoned adjuncts have also been hired to teach required courses in the
program. Dr. David Flaim is teaching BIO 15 this semester. (He teaches Anatomy, Physiology
and Microbiology for us and at Mendocino College). Tanya Smart (who has taught ENVSC 10
and ENVSC 11 for us previously is teaching Marine Mammals this semester).
To summarize the following people have “replaced” some of the courses that Greg has
taught in the program:
-OCEAN 10 & 11: Jay Patton
-BIO 15: David Flaim
-BIO 25: Renate Eberl
-BIO 27: Tanya Smart
Teresa Sholars and Greg Grantham have shared teaching BIO 1 (Fall semester with
Sholars; Spring semester with Grantham). We are not teaching BIO 1 this spring semester.
Attached is a list of the current students in the program and which courses in the program
they have taken. We have used this list as a guide for Spring 2013 scheduling.
3. Please check ONE of the following categories: Faculty Replacement Position, Growth
Position or New Program/Discipline. Provide related information. (0-5 Points)
Faculty Replacement Position (check one)
r3/12/12 pg 1 Stable or growing discipline or program needs replacement for FT faculty who have left
within this academic year
x Stable or growing discipline or program needs replacement for FT faculty who have left
within 1-2 years
Stable discipline or program needs replacement for FT faculty who have left within threefour years
Stable discipline or program can justify replacement for FT faculty who have left within
five years or more
Outside accreditation is at risk without FT hire
Provide justification and documentation. Include when the position became vacant and
the incumbent to be replaced.
Growth Position (checkone)
Enrollment data over past two years indicate program is growing
Enrollment data over past two years indicate program is stable
Enrollment data over past two years indicate program is declining
Independent marketing or other data indicate growth potential
Provide justification and documentation.
New Program/Discipline Position
Program Initialization process complete
State curriculum approval complete
Program has grown significantly without FT faculty
Independent marketing data suggests viability of new program
Provide justification and documentation.
4. FT/PT Ratio: Indicate which statement/s are confirmed by the data: (0 -5 points)
X
Program has no full-time faculty
FT/PT ration below 50/50 percent
FT/PT ratio below 60/40 percent
r3/12/12 pg 2 FT/PT ratio below 75/25 percent
FT/PT ratio results in critical lack of effective oversight for associate faculty
Reliable pool of well-qualified associate faculty is unavailable
(In the case of non-teaching faculty positions, the criteria will be the deviation from norms
obtained from like institutions)
Provide justification and documentation.
The only full time science instructor on the CRMC campus is Teresa Sholars. She teaches only
one required course in the program (BIO 1) although this year she is supervising all of the BIO
40 internship classes (total for the 2012-2013 year is 8). She is planning to go on reduced load
2013-2014 and retire at the end of Spring 2014 semester.
5. Program/Student Outcomes (0 – 5 points)
Provide a narrative justifying need for full-time faculty in order to maintain and/or improve
program and student learning outcomes (one-page max), based on the following: (0 – 5 points)
 Demonstrate a clear need for FT faculty in order to maintain program outcomes
 Justification demonstrates a clear need for FT faculty in order to achieve student learning
outcomes
Narrative:
A full time instructor is necessary to teach the classes, do the assessment, do program review,
oversee the internship and recruit new students. The internship program is the lead in to jobs for
graduating students. This requires a full time continual relationship with employers.
At the end of this semester there will be no full time science presence at CRMC. It will be
difficult to supervise the lab tech, hire enough adjuncts and recruit for new students. It has been
difficult to find part time qualified instructors in the region to teach the required classes in this
program. Hiring inexperienced faculty last semester resulted in a 50% drop rate in three MST
classes. This has the potential to negatively affect the future of the program.
REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
RUBRIC FOR PRIORITIZING FULL-TIME FACULTY POSITIONS
Faculty Replacement Position
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Points (0-5):
Stable or growing discipline or program needs replacement for FT faculty
who have left within this academic year
Stable or growing discipline or program needs replacement for FT faculty
who have left within 1-2 years
Stable discipline or program needs replacement for FT faculty who have left
within three-four years
Stable discipline or program can justify replacement for FT faculty who have
left within five years or more
Outside accreditation is at risk without FT hire
OR
r3/12/12 pg 3 Growth Position
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Enrollment data over past two years indicate program is growing
Enrollment data over past two years indicate program is stable
Enrollment data over past two years indicate program is declining
Independent marketing or other data indicate growth potential
OR
New Program/Discipline Position
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Program Initialization process complete
State curriculum approval complete
New program has shown significant growth without FT faculty
Independent marketing data suggest viability of new program
Points (0-5):
FT/PT Ratio
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Program has no full-time faculty
FT/PT ration below 50/50 percent
FT/PT ratio below 60/40 percent
FT/PT ratio below 75/25 percent
FT/PT ratio results in critical lack of effective oversight for associate faculty
Reliable pool of well-qualified associate faculty is unavailable
(In the case of non teaching faculty positions, the criteria will be the deviation
from norms obtained from like institutions)
Points (0-5):
Program/Student Outcomes
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Narrative justification demonstrates clear need for FT faculty in order to
maintain program outcomes
Narrative justification demonstrates clear need for FT faculty in order to
achieve student learning outcomes
Points (0-5):
Other (Shared Interest)
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Shared interest determined by the Faculty Prioritization Committee. Scoring
rubric will be mutually agreed and will be based on the nature of the shared
interest.
TOTAL
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