Request for Tenure Track Faculty
Program: Counseling (Eureka)
Initiator(s): Sheila Hall
1. Program(s) Supported by the Discipline: All disciplines
2. Job Description. Separate requests are required for each position sought. Please indicate
if this request is site specific and the location(s).
Under the direction of the Director of Counseling/Advising, provides educational, athletic, career and
guidance counseling to students in all educational programs. This position may include a combination of
day or evening assignments.
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)
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 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)
X
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
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Provide justification and documentation.
Student Success and Support Program (SSSP) regulations mandate orientation/advising,
assessment, student education plans, and follow-up services for new students beginning Fall
2015.
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)
Program has no full-time faculty
X
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)
Provide justification and documentation.
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:
The strategic plan, education, annual plan, and enrollment management plan calls for the College
to: match student readiness with educational pathways, help students complete their desired
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educational goals, improve support for students, and provide early intervention after first
semester for students with poor academic performance.
The Counseling, Athletics, Veterans, Residential Life, and Special Programs departments have a
shared student learning outcome that says that: As a result of an academic advising session and
collaborative development of a Student Education Plan, students will demonstrate an
understanding of the components of a degree/certificate program necessary to reach their
educational goal.
Achieving the above planning goals, satisfy the learning outcome, improve our student
completion rates, and meet the state’s Student Success and Support Program regulations will
require improvements in the programs and services we provide to students. In part, these
improvements can be accomplished through the use and reprioritization of existing resources.
However, a full-scale implementation of the student success initiative in the 2013-14 year will
require a greater commitment from the College for essential educational priorities that contribute
to student success, which include, but are not necessarily limited to, counseling.
Our student success program is investing more time and effort into simplifying our processes and
using technology to support advising work. However, technology, while having many benefits
for us, will not serve all students or fulfill all student needs. It’s clear to us that an expanded
student-friendly technology system will allow the most self-directed students to complete
education planning, orientation, and preparing for assessments. However, many students will still
need the face-to-face interactions provided by counselors. By shifting the lower-need, selfdirecting students to online tools, we will be able to free up counselors to focus their face-to-face
interactions with those students who lack access to technology or are not adequately prepared to
utilize it and those who need more complex interactions with a counselor. It would also allow
counseling faculty to spend less time performing routine functions and utilize their professional
skills to support students in more complex dimensions such as:
1. Academic counseling, in which the student is assisted in assessing, planning and
implementing immediate and long-range academic goals.
2. Career counseling, in which the student is assisted in assessing his or her aptitudes,
abilities, and interests, and is advised concerning the current and future employment
trends.
3. Personal counseling, in which the student is assisted with personal, family or other social
concerns, when that assistance is related to the student’s education.
4. Coordination with the counseling aspects of other services to students which may exist on
the campus, including, but not limited to, those provided in programs for students with
special needs, skills testing programs, financial assistance programs, and job placement
services......”
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