Guideline On Adjunct Faculty Contract & Performance Evaluation
Guideline Name: Adjunct Faculty Contract & Performance Evaluation
Related Policy: Adjunct Faculty Evaluation Policy
Prepared by: Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
Original Date: November 9, 2021
Update Date: July 19, 2024
Applicable to: Adjuncts for all Melbourne Campus and 8-week Online Classes
Context:
Course Details for all Adjunct Contracts are identified within the Period Activity Pay, which are in the employee’s profile in Workday under Job/Worker History/Period Activity Pay.
Signed Adjunct Contracts are in the employee’s profile in Workday under Personal/Documents/Generated Documents.
Guideline:
Adjunct Faculty Hiring/Recruitment
In order to ensure compliance and consistency when hiring Adjuncts, beginning this semester, job requisitions should be created and posted in Workday when recruiting for new/replacement adjunct openings.
- Search Committee interview/selection is not required for adjunct hiring process.
- If there is a candidate in mind for the vacancy, the candidate should be instructed to apply to the open requisition. Once the final candidate has been selected, the department can initiate the offer in Workday.
- Upon the candidate's acknowledgement of their position placeholder, the candidate will be required to complete a criminal and education background check.
- Once cleared, their hire will be finalized in Workday and Period Activity Pay can be initiated, which outlines the terms of their assignment.
Adjunct Faculty Contract
Melbourne Campus Classes:
- Minimum Enrollment Requirements: Graduate classes having fewer than eight (8) students and undergraduate classes having fewer than twelve (12) students officially registered on the first day of the semester will be canceled.
- Academic Term: Fall, Spring, and Summer Semester
- Adjunct Appointments: Adjunct Faculty Members will not be allowed to accept appointments that would result in their teaching more than 3 classes per term/semester. Assignments for all Florida Tech departments (main campus, Online Learning, Extended Studies Division, Virtual Campus, ABA) are to be included in the maximum allowed number of classes. Failure to comply with this limit may result in the loss of any future offers of Adjunct appointments
8-week Online Classes:
- Minimum Enrollment Requirements: The 8-week online sections having fewer than seven (7) students officially registered on the first day of the term will be canceled.
- Academic Term: Online classes run in 8-week terms.
- Making up classes: 8-week online classes are asynchronous; therefore, making up classes is not applicable.
- Lectures: 8-week online instructors do not prepare their own lectures. These are pre-recorded by the course developers.
- Syllabus: 8-week online instructors do not prepare the syllabus. This task is completed by the course developer and the syllabus is pre-loaded into the course shell.
- Adjunct Appointments: Adjunct Faculty Members will not be allowed to accept appointments that would result in their teaching more than 2 classes per 8-week term or a total of 3 classes per 16- week period (Spring, Summer, Fall). Assignments for all Florida Tech departments (main campus, Online Learning, Extended Studies Division, Virtual Campus, ABA) are to be included in the maximum allowed number of classes. Failure to comply with this limit may result in the loss of any future offers of Adjunct appointments.
Adjunct Faculty Performace Evaluations
Florida Tech is dedicated to maintaining excellence in teaching and enhancing student learning outcomes and overall educational experience. Performance of all adjunct faculty must be evaluated as described in the Adjunct Faculty Evaluation Policy that policy applies to all Florida Tech adjunct faculty, regardless of course level, modality, academic program, or location. The policy provides guidelines for adjunct faculty evaluation and promotes continuous improvement of instructional quality and professional development.
To ensure a comprehensive and consistent process for evaluating adjunct faculty performance, the academic units will use the Adjunct Faculty Teaching Evaluation Form that must be submitted to the Dean's Office and the Office of the Provost within four weeks of the start of the subsequent semester. When an adjunct is contracted to teach online courses for two consecutive semesters, a single performance evaluation covering both terms is sufficient.