Compliance Status
Patrick Henry College is in compliance with this principle.
Narrative
Patrick Henry College employs competent faculty members qualified to accomplish its mission and goals. In determining acceptable qualifications for its faculty, the University gives primary consideration to the highest earned degree in the discipline. The University also considers competence, effectiveness, and capacity to contribute to effective teaching and student learning outcomes.
Policies to Assure Employment of Qualified Faculty
The College employs instructional and non-instructional faculty to meet he institution’s diverse mission and goals. The Faculty Handbook, approved by the Patrick Henry College Board of Trustees, the governing body
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If an instructor’s education credentials do not match the primary course that he or she is assigned to teach, the department chairs must further review the individual 's backgrounds and credentials and select a special justification as appropriate based on the equivalent training, ability, and/or experience of the instructor. The four special justification options available in the system are (1) having extensive professional experience in the teaching discipline, (2) having extensive research experience in the teaching discipline, (3) having extensive non-degree educational experience in the teaching discipline, or (4) serving as study abroad program director. If one of these special justification options applies for a faculty member for an individual course, the department chair can then add brief but specific details to the Instructor Roster describing the instructor’s additional qualifications for teaching the