14.  Faculty:
The institution has a sufficient number of qualified faculty, which includes full time and may include part time and adjunct faculty, to achieve the institutional mission and purposes. The number is sufficient in size and experience to support all of the institution’s educational programs. A clear statement of faculty responsibilities must include development and review of curriculum as well as assessment of learning. (Standard III.A.7 and III.A.2)

The ASCC Faculty comprise of full-time and adjunct faculty. Faculty currently includes:

• Percent of full-time Faculty: 96 percent
• Percent of Adjunct Faculty: four percent
• Faculty Qualifications:  Doctorates: nine percent; Masters: 80 percent; Bachelors: 11 percent.
• Academic Year 2014-2015 (fall 2014): Raw Data: Doctorates: five; Masters: 43; Bachelors: six; Total: 54.
• Academic Year 2015-2016 (spring 2015): Raw Data: Doctorates: six; Masters: 44; Bachelors: six; Total: 59.
• 1 Licensures  (career tech) and 2 certifications

 59 full-time instructors, part-time and 15 adjunct faculty teaching classes in the fall of 2015.

Full-time faculty credentials as of fall 2015:

Part-time and adjunct fall 2015:

Full-time and adjunct faculty members may provide recommendations to the President that have or will have a significant effect on them as well as the process for developing those recommendations. Faculty and adjunct faculty are represented through the Faculty Senate. Faculty and adjunct faculty elect the Chairman of the Faculty Senate and Senators to serve as Senate Officers. Terms and conditions for officers are determined through the Senate’s by-laws.¹

The faculty performance evaluation instrument has been thoroughly reviewed by the Faculty Senate committee.²  As a result of the review, the faculty performance evaluation instrument was revised in fall 2014 to include the development, implementation, assessment and analysis of student learning outcomes, and in summer 2015 to include faculty participation in ASCC’s Institutional and Divisional Program Reviews.

Faculty position review forms are revised and continue to be updated to indicate changes in faculty job descriptions.

Faculty are represented in several decision-making groups at the committee level that focus directly on the development and review of curriculum as well as assessment of student learning and student achievement. Decision-making groups include the Institutional Planning Executive Core Committee (IPECC), Curriculum Committee, and Academic Assessment Committee.

Faculty are appointed to serve as academic program/department Chairpersons. The appointment of Chairpersons is recommended by the Dean of Academic of Affairs to ensure continuity and the quality of outcome planning, implementation, assessment and degree offerings. The Department Chairpersons meet monthly as the College’s Curriculum Committee. It is the Curriculum Committee’s responsibility to review and approve new course proposals, course and program changes, and provide quality review of degree requirements and recommendations to improve academic policies and processes.³

Faculty also serve as members of the Assessment Committee. The composition of the committee is a representation of all academic programs and departments.  The focus of the committee is to provide an analysis of student learning outcomes and monitor outcomes based on defined assessment processes in achieving the ASCC institution-set standards.⁴

Faculty are represented in the Institutional Planning Executive Core Committee (IPECC). The IPECC serves as a governance standing committee that monitors the implementation of institutional program reviews and planning.⁵

1- Participatory Governance Structural Manual, p. 14
2 - Faculty Performance Evaluation Form
3 - Participatory Governance Structural Manual, p. 18
4 - Participatory Governance Structural Manual, p.18
5 - Participatory Governance Structural Manual, p.17