Substitute Teachers/Teacher Absence Policy
It is not the policy of Vernon College to cancel a class. If faculty must miss class, they must call the Division Chair to make arrangements for the class. Faculty should substitute for one another whenever possible. Full-time faculty who substitute for other full-time faculty members on a temporary basis will not receive substitute pay. If an adjunct instructor must miss a class that requires hiring a substitute, the adjunct’s pay may be deducted, and the College will pay the appropriate substitute. Paperwork must be submitted to the Vice-President of Instructional Service’s office to arrange these procedures. The appropriate Division Chair must be alerted to any changes in scheduled classes. The substitute pay rate is $20.00 per hour; $4.00 will be added to the pay rate if licensure is required to perform instruction; $12.00 will be added to the ADN pay rate.
With the exception of library assignments and research projects, an instructor must not permit any class to meet as a class without faculty supervision via the substitute process unless such is approved by the Vice-President of Instructional Services.
All leave requests must include the names, hours, and dates of classes that the instructor will miss and indicate how those classes are to be covered.
Classes can be dismissed only with the approval of the Vice-President of Instructional Services and/or the College President.
When a full-time or adjunct faculty member becomes unable to fulfill his/her assigned teaching duties for any given semester, a permanent substitute will be employed to complete the incapacitated instructor’s teaching assignment. Compensation for the incapacitated and substitute instructor will be based upon a prorated percentage calculated according to the calendar days of the semester by the Director of Human Resources.