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Continuing Contracts

A full-time faculty member may be offered a multi-year contract, up to a period of three years, under the following conditions:

1. The faculty member has received and satisfactorily completed at least three consecutive one-year contracts with the college and is recommended by the Division Chair and Vice-President of Instructional Services.
2. The faculty member must at a minimum meet or exceed the credential guidelines or academic and professional preparation as recommended by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges as well as those required by applicable program accrediting bodies.
3. During the previous three years, the faculty member has satisfactorily complied with the educational standards, policies, and procedures of the college and is not currently on performance, behavioral, or employment probation.
4. The faculty member is serving in an instructional program or teaching discipline that is not currently on probation or experiencing enrollment problems.

A faculty member holding a multi-year contract who does not maintain satisfactory student enrollment in his/her classes (average annual enrollment of less than 12 students per class) may have that contract reduced by one year at the discretion of the Vice-President of Instructional Services until such time as adequate enrollment is re-established. For example: A faculty member holds a multi-year contract. At the end of a particular year, class enrollment falls below the minimum level. The faculty member’s contract the next year then goes from a three-year to a two-year contract. At the end of that year, one of the following two things will occur. If satisfactory enrollment is met, then the faculty member’s contract goes back to three years, but if enrollment is unsatisfactory, then the faculty member is now offered a one-year contract. At this point, the faculty member is required to have three consecutive years of satisfactory enrollment to again be offered a three-year, multi-year contract. If adequate enrollment has not been maintained, the college reserves the right to either offer the faculty member an annual contract or terminate employment. See Policy Manual, DCA (LOCAL)