ATTACHMENT B
WORK PROPOSAL FOR ANNUALLY APPOINTED FACULTY ROLE DESIGN
Authors: Amy Bosley, Wendi Dew, and Suzette Dohany
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Date: 11/16/15
Background
Valencia made a significant commitment to non-tenure earning faculty roles in 2013-2014 when 64
temporary faculty contracts were converted to annual appointments. Since that time, the College has added
additional Annual Appointment faculty lines (including some 12-month contracts for New Student Experience
faculty). In 15-16, the College employs 93 faculty in on an annual contract.
At the time the positions were converted from temporary, four-month temporary contracts, the attached job
description was created for the role and the Workload for Professors policy and procedure was updated to
reflect the new classification, role, and responsibilities. Several key items need to be addressed to complete
the role design and implementation including:
1. Review of compensation system: annually appointed faculty are paid the same salary as a vestige of the
four-month temporary compensation system.
2. Design of faculty onboarding experience: annually appointed faculty do not participate in the pre-tenure
teaching and learning academy process. As faculty with a significant teaching responsibility, an onboarding
program should be designed to ensure mastery of the Essential Competencies of a Valencia Educator.
3. Design of ongoing professional development programs: annually appointed faculty are eligible only for the
associate faculty status and additional compensation for courses taught above the base load. They are not
eligible for the professional development incentive program for tenured/tenure-track faculty.
4. Design of an annual evaluation process: annually appointed faculty do not have a role-specific annual
evaluation process.
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Charge and Work Products
The work team will produce recommendations in each of the following areas;
1. Annually Appointed faculty compensation system
2. Annually Appointed faculty onboarding experience
3. Annually Appointed faculty professional development program
4. Annually Appointed faculty annual evaluation process
3.
Known Constraints, Criteria, or Design Principles
The most significant constraint will be budget. Other constraints such as time and implementation resources
can be successfully managed by the leadership of the team.
4.
Relevant Strategic Goals
Which of Valencia’s strategic goals is served by the work?
a. Build Pathways
b. Learning Assured
c. Invest in Each Other
d. Partner with the Community
5.
Council Overseeing the Work
a.
b.
c.
6.
Learning Leadership Council
Faculty Council
Executive Council
Sponsors of the Work
Amy Bosley, Vice President, Organizational Development and Human Resources
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Decision-making Authority
The recommendations will be shared with the Faculty Council for endorsement, presented to the Executive
Council for endorsement, then shared with the senior team for consideration in the annual budget process.
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9.
Internal Stakeholders or Constituents
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Annually appointed faculty
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Tenured/tenure-track faculty
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Faculty and Instructional Development

Organizational Development and Human Resources

Academic Deans and Campus Presidents

Finance team
Preliminary List of Team Members
Work Team Leadership: Amy Bosley (VP, ODHR), Wendi Dew (AVP, Teaching and Learning), Suzette
Dohany (CWFA)
Other proposed members:
Member of the Teaching and Learning team
5 annually appointed faculty (to be named by the Collegewide Faculty Association)
3 tenured/tenure-track faculty (to be named by the Collegewide Faculty Association)
Mary Beth Clifton, Director Total Rewards and Workforce Planning
2 academic deans (to be named by the Instructional Affairs Committee)
Member of the finance team
10. Deadline for Work Products
Recommendations for compensation system are needed by March 1, 2016.
Recommendations for onboarding experience, professional development program, and annual evaluation
process are needed by June 1, 2016.
11. Proposed Meeting Times
The team will meet on Friday afternoons from 2 – 4:30 p.m. on the following dates:
January 29
February 5
February 26
March 18
April 1
April 22
May 13
May 27
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