Minimum Five Open-ended Questions should cover the following five areas for FT Faculty:
1. Academic freedom;
2. Workload and managing the three pillars of the academy (e.g., teaching, scholarship/research, & service);
3. How academic decisions are made at the institution;
4. The faculty member’s curriculum input into the courses and academic programmatic participation into the degree (majors, minors, certificates, etc.) offerings in the department; and
5. Assessment procedures (used both individually with their own students and also in their own department, division, college, or larger university).
Students will then interview a FT academic leader such as a department chair, division director, or a dean – not an academic administrator from the larger institution such as a provost or VP of Academic Affairs. After a brief summary of the individual’s academic credentials & higher education experience (perhaps include the academic leader’s own website url, if available), ask the following:
Minimum Five Open-ended Questions should cover the following five areas for FT Academic Leader:
1. Program planning and accreditation and program approval;
2. Rank & promotion procedures at their institutions;
3. Faculty professional development opportunities;
4. Assessment and evidence of student learning outcomes;
5. Implementing institutional policies such as academic integrity; admission criteria & decisions; department and university-wide committees; tenure and rank/promotion; search committees; annual budget, etc.
Rubric for Assignment 2
Content: 15 points
Selection of 2 Subjects
Part I: Questions & Written responses (a “partial transcript”)
Part II: “Discussion” of both their Responses
Part III: “Analysis” Section
Written Expression & Presentation of Ideas 8 points
Includes sentence & paragraph structure; pronoun-antecedent agreement; subject-verb
agreement; verb tense; 1st and 2nd person; punctuation (apostrophes, semi-colon,
etc.); generalizations; clichés; transitions; quotations; usage; general introductions
with a purpose statement; conclusion that summarizes, etc.)
APA/Formatting 2 points
Including margination, spacing, pagination, citation, justification, references,
headers, gender-biased language, etc.
