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Focused Report
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for Commission on Colleges
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
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Compliance Item Number and Description
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Comprehensive Standard 3.7.1 The institution employs competent faculty members qualified to accomplish the mission and goals of the institution. When determining acceptable qualifications of its faculty, an institution gives primary consideration to the highest earned degree in the discipline in accordance with the guidelines listed below. The institution also considers competence, effectiveness, and capacity, including, as appropriate, undergraduate and graduate degrees, related work experiences in the field, professional licensure and certifications, honors and awards, continuous documented excellence in teaching, or other demonstrated competencies and achievements that contribute to the effective teaching and student learning outcomes. For all cases, the institution is responsible for justifying and documenting the qualifications of its faculty.
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Judgment of the Off-Site Review Committee:
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Comments:
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Based on the faculty roster provided, the Off-Site Review Committee found the qualifications of eight faculty unacceptable and identified nine faculty for whom further documentation of the qualifications is required. The On-Site Review Committee should review the qualifications of the seventeen individuals listed on the Request for Justifying and Documenting Qualifications of Faculty.
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College Focused Response:
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Of the 17 individuals cited in the Off-Site Review Committee's Request for Justifying and Documenting Qualifications of Faculty report,
- Five instructors teaching Office Systems Technology classes had appropriate credentials that were left off of the form in the College's initial Compliance Certification due to a technical error.
- Five individuals (Ketchum - HUM 211, Meyer - MUS 162AO, Parnell - PSY 150, Thompson - Welding, and Watson - MAT 070) are no longer teaching for the college.
- Two other individuals (Walker - ECO 251; and Blythe - MAT 050) are no longer teaching those subject areas, but are teaching other courses for which the Off-Site Review Committee reviewed their credentials and did not express concern.
- Attached transcripts verify that Batten (non-transfer cosmetology), Eure (education teacher associate transfer and non-transfer courses), Stirling (transfer courses in economics) and Cresswell (biology transfer courses) have completed appropriate diplomas, degrees and graduate course work for those courses which they are teaching. Cresswell's 16 graduate credit hours in zoology and 12 graduate credit hours in botany are equivalent to 28 graduate hours in biology, since those subjects represent the sub-disciplines for biology.
- McCoy's portfolio, approved by the Craven Community College credentials committee and Chief Academic Officer, indicates his credentials for teaching MAT 060, a developmental pre-algebra math course.
The college's new welding instructor, Eric Braddy (portfolio), replaced Mr. Thompson in all classes.
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CRAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
800 College Court | New Bern, NC 28562 | 252-638-4131
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