WAC 132S-30-010   Academic employee -- Instructional responsibilities.  The primary responsibility of the academic employee is to serve the student primarily through classroom faculty/student contact or by other assistance, i.e., conferencing, etc., as related to the learning process. These responsibility factors are established to ensure an appropriate balance of individual faculty assignments in the total institution.

     (1) Guidelines to be used in developing an instructor's responsibility schedule within the work weeks of a quarter will be the responsibility of the division chairman and the academic employees of the division with final approval by the dean of instruction.

     (2) Each individual academic employee shall work with his division chairman to develop a weekly responsibility schedule in conformance to the guidelines.

     (3) This responsibility schedule shall be for a thirty-hour week, plus a designated lunch period.

     (4) Approval of such a responsibility schedule shall be vested with the dean of instruction or his designee no later than the end of the first instructional week of each quarter during the regular academic year.

     (5) Accountability to the posted responsibility schedule may be excepted on campus by notifying the appropriate division chairman. Exception to the responsibility schedule for off-campus reasons must be approved by the dean of instruction or his designee.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.50.140 and chapter 28B.19 RCW. 82-21-012 (Order 82-1), § 132S-30-010, filed 10/11/82. Formerly WAC 132S-190-010.]