Utah Admin. Code R765-165-10 - CE Instructor Qualifications
College or university faculty or public school educators teach concurrent enrollment courses for the offering institution.
10.1. Selection of CE Instructors LEAs and
the participating USHE institution shall jointly select instructors for
concurrent enrollment courses. Selection criteria for instructors are the same
as those criteria applied to other adjunct faculty appointments in specific
departments within the USHE institution. Once approved as an adjunct, a CE
instructor who teaches a CE course in 2018-19 or 2019-20 may continue to teach
CE courses given curricular standards and student performance outcomes in the
CE instructor's classes meet sponsoring academic department standards.
Institutions shall establish a process for determining, in consultation with
LEA partners, whether an eligible instructor who previously taught a CE course
is no longer qualified to teach the CE course. The appropriate academic
department at the institution must approve each CE instructor prior to teaching
a concurrent enrollment class.
10.2. Institutional Faculty CE Instructors -
A USHE institution faculty member is an eligible CE instructor.
10.3. LEA Employee Instructor Qualifications
- An LEA employee is an eligible CE instructor if the LEA employee is licensed
under statutory Education Professional Licensure, is supervised by an
institution of higher education, and meets the following requirements:
10.3.1. is approved as an eligible instructor
by the institution of higher education that provides the concurrent enrollment
course taught by the LEA employee as provided under Subsection
R765-165-10.4;
10.3.2. has an upper level mathematics
credential issued by the State Board of Education, or
10.3.3. teaches a concurrent enrollment
course that the LEA employee taught during the 2018-19 or 2019-20 school
year.
10.4. A USHE
institution shall approve an LEA employee as an eligible instructor:
10.4.1. for a career and technical education
concurrent enrollment course, if the LEA employee has:
10.4.1.1. a degree, certificate, or industry
certification in the concurrent enrollment course's academic field;
or
10.4.1.2. qualifying experience,
as determined by the institution of higher education.
10.4.2. for a concurrent enrollment course
other than a career and technical education course, if the LEA employee has:
10.4.2.1. a master's degree or higher in the
concurrent enrollment course's academic field;
10.4.2.2. a master's degree or higher in any
academic field and at least 18 completed credit hours of graduate course work
in an academic field that is relevant to the concurrent enrollment course;
or
10.4.2.3. qualifying experience,
as determined by the institution of higher education.
10.5. Appeals Process for
Instructor Qualification Approvals - If a designated service area USHE
institution determines an LEA employee is not qualified to teach a concurrent
enrollment course and the LEA has exhausted all administrative remedies
available at the institution, the LEA may appeal the decision in writing to the
Commissioner of Higher Education within 15 calendar days of the institution's
final decision. The Commissioner shall appoint an appeals committee consisting
of the associate commissioner for academic affairs and two USHE chief academic
officers who are uninvolved in the decision being appealed.
10.5.1. The appeals committee will review the
LEA's appeal and the institution's decision.
10.5.2. The institution and LEA will provide
the appeals committee with any material documents and information necessary for
a complete review. The committee may request additional documentation or
information as necessary.
10.5.3.
The appeals committee will provide a recommendation to the Commissioner, which
may include affirming or reversing the institution's decision.
10.5.4. The Commissioner shall make a final
decision and issue it to the institution and the LEA in writing.
10.5.5. After the Commissioner has issued a
decision, there will be no further appeals or reviews.
10.6. Criminal Background Checks - USHE
faculty who are not public school educators and who teach concurrent enrollment
courses defined under this policy in a high school shall complete a criminal
background check consistent with Title 53G, Chapter 11, Part 4. The faculty's
institution must determine if a criminal background check is required and, if
so, must complete the background check and maintain required documentation
consistent with the law.
10.7.
Faculty Development - Concurrent enrollment instructors shall be included as
fully as possible in the academic life of the supervising academic department.
USHE institutions and LEAs shall jointly initiate faculty development,
including appropriate workshop experiences to adequately prepare instructors to
teach concurrent enrollment students and course content prior to offering
concurrent enrollment courses. If a USHE institution uses an instructor of
record or co-teaching instructional model, the institution faculty shall fully
engage and prepare the public school educator to successfully teach the
curriculum prior to the beginning of the course. Each CE instructor must
complete any faculty development required by the sponsoring academic department
at the institution prior to teaching the concurrent enrollment class. USHE
faculty are responsible to understand and comply with federal and state laws
governing public school student privacy and student records.
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