{"id":2393,"date":"2021-01-12T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2021-01-12T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T21:01:43","slug":"recast-faculty-teaching-assignments-in-21-22-and-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2021\/01\/recast-faculty-teaching-assignments-in-21-22-and-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Recast | Faculty Teaching Assignments in 21\/22 and 22\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From:<\/strong> McAvity, David &lt;mcavityd@evergreen.edu&gt; <br> <strong>Sent:<\/strong> Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:21 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Colleagues, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am writing with a request connected to teaching\nassignments in 21\/22 and 22\/23.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you are aware, decreasing enrollments have led to a\nsituation where the number of regular faculty is out of balance with the number\nof students that we have. This imbalance has budget and curricular\nimplications. It is also one of the reasons we regrettably found ourselves\nturning to faculty furloughs this year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are probably also aware that the imbalances are not\nevenly distributed across the curriculum. For example, we regularly have need\nfor additional faculty to teach in our graduate programs. Next year we also\nanticipate a need for more regular faculty in Tacoma, the Native Pathways\nPrograms, and programs that serve working adults, such as Evening and Weekend\nStudies. Moreover, there are not enough regular faculty to teach in some key\nhigh demand areas in the Olympia Undergraduate program such as business,\npsychology, and the arts. In addition, we are seeing high demand for courses,\nwhile many full-time programs have very low enrollments. I am looking for\ncreative ways to address these imbalances to meet curricular needs and to\nmitigate pressure on our budget, which is no longer able to absorb the degree\nof over staffing we have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curriculum deans and directors of program are building\nstaffing plans for 21\/22 and looking ahead to 22\/23. They have identified some\nkey areas where there is a need for regular faculty to adapt their teaching\nplans in one or more of the following ways: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>We need some faculty who\n     normally teach in the Olympia undergraduate program to teach in one of the\n     grad programs or in the Evergreen Tacoma undergraduate program. <\/li><li>We need faculty who can\n     contribute to the curriculum in high demand areas such as business,\n     psychology and the visual arts either through their own expertise or\n     through the ability to partner with faculty who have expertise in those\n     areas. <\/li><li>We need some faculty\n     will who typically teach 16 credit programs to teach 12-credit program\n     combined with 4-credit courses, or separately list 4 credit options in\n     their 16 credit programs, in order to make more 4-credit options available\n     to students, and to provide more options for students who wish to study\n     with less than a fulltime load. <\/li><li>We need some faculty to\n     develop certificate programs and consistent low residency and\n     online-offerings that provide opportunities for non-traditional students\n     who are place bound or who can only study part-time to get a credential or\n     a degree. <\/li><li>We will need faculty to\n     be flexible with their schedules, possibly teaching at times and locations\n     when and where they do not normally teach. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact the curriculum deans if you able to adapt\nyour teaching plans to meet one or more of the needs listed above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If deans and\\or directors approach you to adapt your plans\nfor 21\/22 or 22\/23 to meet a particular curricular need, please be flexible.\nThey are asking because your help is needed. We are in a moment in the\ncollege&#8217;s history where your cooperation and flexibility are essential. Our\nability to make such changes will tangibly improve our ability to meet the needs\nof our students and is one way to help mitigate difficult budget\ncircumstances.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would be happy to engage in conversations with folks who\nare asked to making changes by deans to explain the situation in more detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, and best wishes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: McAvity, David &lt;mcavityd@evergreen.edu&gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:21 PM Dear Colleagues, I am writing with a request connected&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4996,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}