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SECTION 800 - HUMAN RESOURCES

 

803.0806                   CRITERIA FOR PROMOTION

 

PROCEDURE

 

Use the following scale to convert the numerical rating of teaching effectiveness on the Annual Performance Review to a performance standard:

 

        Numerical rating      Performance standard

 

4.50-5.0                   Exemplary professional performance

3.75-4.49               High professional performance

3.00-3.74               Standard professional performance

2.00-2.99               Minimal professional performance

            1.00-1.99                    Unsatisfactory professional performance

 

 

Assistant Professor**

 

I.     Standard professional performance or better is required for three consecutive years in teaching effectiveness, service, and professional activities.

II.    Degree and experience requirements:

Earned doctorate in an area appropriate to the discipline

or

Master’s degree plus 45 quarter hours (or 30 semester hours) appropriate to the discipline and three years’ successful full-time teaching experience at GPC

or

Master’s degree and five years’ successful full-time teaching experience. At least three years must be at GPC.

 

Note: Degree requirement must be met by the date on which formal request for consideration is submitted to the department chair (currently the first Friday of class in fall term). Full-time teaching experience is defined as teaching an entire academic year on a yearly contract.

 

**When a faculty member receives a doctorate, he/she is immediately considered eligible for promotion to Assistant Professor.

 

Associate Professor

I.     Standard professional performance or better is required for four consecutive years in teaching effectiveness, service, and professional activities.

II.    High professional performance or exemplary professional performance is required in teaching effectiveness for three out of four years.

III.   High professional performance or exemplary professional performance in either service or professional activities is required for three out of four years. (The high or exemplary performance need not be in the same area each year.)

IV.  Degree and experience requirements:

Six years’ successful full-time college teaching experience. At least four years must be at the Assistant Professor rank at GPC.

and

Earned doctorate in an area appropriate to the discipline

or

Master’s degree plus 45 quarter hours (or 30 semester hours) appropriate to the discipline

or

Master’s degree and exemplary professional performance in teaching effectiveness for four out of five years

 

Note: Degree requirement must be met by the date on which formal request for consideration is submitted to the department chair (currently the first Friday of class in fall term). Full-time teaching experience is defined as teaching an entire academic year on a yearly contract.

 

Professor

 

I.     Standard professional performance or better is required for five consecutive years in teaching effectiveness, service, and professional activities.

 

II.      Exemplary professional performance is required in teaching effectiveness for three out of five years.

 

III.      High professional performance or exemplary professional performance in either service or

 

IV.  Degree and experience requirements:

 

Eight years’ successful full-time me college teaching experience. At least five years must be at the Associate Professor rank at GPC.

 

and

      Earned doctorate in an area appropriate to the discipline

 

Note: Degree requirement must be met by the date on which formal request for consideration is submitted to the department chair (currently the first Friday of class in fall term). Full-time teaching experience is defined as teaching an entire academic year on a yearly contract.

 

 

Approved by College Advisory Board 9-23-99