Counseling | Workforce Re-Entry

Faculty Expertise

The faculty serving on Instructional Councils are best positioned to provide consistent, expert evaluation of faculty coursework and credentials so as to determine relevance within a specific teaching field. Therefore, Human Resources, Department/Division Chairs, Deans, VPAAs, and other stakeholders must coordinate with the relevant Instructional Councils to determine if the established minimum qualifications are met by candidates for Faculty (Residential, Adjunct, or Dual Enrollment) positions.

Occupational

For occupational disciplines, a combination of education and/or experience is required to qualify. A faculty may qualify with any of the following:

  • Five years of occupational experience in the field to be taught OR
  • Three years of occupational experience in the field to be taught and a Bachelor’s degree of higher OR 
  • A Master’s degree or higher in the teaching field OR
  • A Master’s degree of higher in any field with 18 graduate credits in the teaching field 
Instructional Council (IC)
Counseling
Faculty Service Area (FSA)
Workforce Re-Entry
Subjects
WFR, WKO
Accepted Disciplines/Subfields

Any bachelors degree

Any masters or higher level courses

Description

Any documentation demonstrating experience with occupational or educational programming, or experience with incarceration or probation.

Rationale

Successful instruction for this course includes experience with job skills instruction, occupational or educational experience. Specific emphasis placed on offender populations and experience with incarceration or probation are benefits.