Distance Education Coordinator​/Faculty

Position: Distance Education Coordinator / Full-time Faculty
Roles, Responsibilities & Effectiveness

The primary role of the Director of Distance Education Coordinator/Full-time Faculty is responsible for the operation of the Distance Education courses each semester. The Director of Distance Education works with faculty and staff to promote distance education initiatives, monitor online courses, and provide student and faculty support services in the areas of training and instructional design/technology. This position is primarily charged with strategic planning, development, and delivery oversight of eLearning initiatives at the university.

Full-time Faculty is responsible for faculty is responsible to teach, mentor, develop course requirements, strengthen institutional effectiveness and the promotion of essential concepts, skills, and knowledge for the development of students as world-changing leaders. For these reasons, the faculty is encouraged to approach teaching, the curriculum, and other activities with:

* Advanced knowledge and application of the Word of God.

* Appreciation for diversity and different approaches in teaching and learning.

* Multi-disciplinary approaches that promote intellectual freedom to explore, reason, analyze, and resolve the challenges of the world.

The Full-time faculty is an important participant and is significant to assure the fulfillment of the University's mission and principles. The primary responsibilities of the faculty include the following: teaching, research, curriculum design, and evaluation. Moreover, faculty effectiveness shall be determined in accordance with the University's mission, principles, vision, and goals. Faculty are expected to:

Promote the student's commitment and ability to influence world order and peace.

Cultivate unprecedented world-changing leadership and professionalism after the image and likeness of God.

Link achievements to broad pursuits in higher education, research, communication, and policy reform.

Faculty Qualifications for Teaching Assignments

Full-time and part-time faculty must have completed at least 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline and hold at least a master's degree, or hold the minimum of a master's degree with a major in the teaching discipline. In exceptional cases, the President's Council may accept professional experience and demonstrated contributions to the teaching discipline upon approval.

The criteria for teaching an undergraduate course are as follows:

* A master's degree or at least 18 hours at the post-graduate level.

* The instructor's degree must be from an accredited institution.

* Submission of course syllabus and course description approved by the Department Chair.

* Must demonstrate acceptable teaching skills and classroom management via evaluation.

* Must have at least 5 years of experience in teaching research or professional experience in a particular discipline.

* Must be approved by the Dean of the College.

* Only doctorate-prepared faculty are qualified to teach Masters and Doctoral courses

Office Hours and Availability to Students.

All faculty members are expected to be available each week for student meetings and consultation and to keep the Dean informed concerning their office hour schedules or any changes to their office hour schedule. Acceptable methods of meeting these requirements include in-person meetings, phone meetings, or use of e-mail. Faculty members are to post office hours on office doors and list hours in the course syllabus.

Faculty Effectiveness

A strategic planning process and other derivatives are vehicles for faculty participation, evaluation, and development. The faculty shall engage in a 5-step continuous process to foster participation, evaluation, and development. The steps are teamwork building, shared Vision, personal mastery, mental models of excellence, and improved systems. Strategic planning sessions are scheduled three times per year in May, July, and October to review progress, make revisions, set new objectives, and document the process.

See Chart A on University Effectiveness, page 19 in the Faculty Handbook.

The strategic planning process is based on a University-wide system. The process engages four (4) primary…