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USE OF SESSIONAL FACULTY MEMBERS
AT DOUGLAS COLLEGE - continued..

and sidecckom s process for sessional
faculty members is by design and
agreement simpler and quicker to
implemént than the process for
regular faculty members.

c. Sessionals are used in order to
employ specialists in areas where the
services of a full-time specialist
is not required. Sometimes this is
even true of a whole subject field
where the sub-specialties are so
intense that it is not possible to
readily find and hire an individual
who embodies a range of skills in
several areas at the levels required
in each.

d. Sessionals are employed to provide a
basic level of service in the
classroom without being required to
serve on discipline, division or
college-wide committees or to perform
additional functions such as course.
or program development or liaison;
the salaries for sessional faculty
members in general reflect a demand
for fewer types of services or for
less extensive service than a regular
faculty member. The instructional

services performed by either class of |

faculty member are valued equally
and the rationale is included in
section 5.4.2 of the Collective
Agreement. The economic benefits to
the college of employing sessional
faculty members is thus based on use
of required rather than desired extra
services.

e. Sessional faculty are often employed
in fields where the needs are

transient or cyclic and the employment :

of a regular full-time faculty member
cannot therefore be justified.

f. Sessional faculty members are often
employed when the needs for their
services are experimental for pilot
or demonstration courses, projects
or programs.

 

3. Sessional faculty as a class of
employees have all of the
qualities attributed to regular
faculty with the single exception
of the amount of available time
to devote to tasks not directly
related to the courses they teach
or the duties they perform.

POLICY

The college is concerned with
establishing and maintaining a balance
in each discipline and division of the
college between sessional and regular
faculty. The balance is not a fixed
ratio, but rather a consideration of
the number of course sections taught
by sessionals compared to the number
taught by regular faculty members;

the number of persons employed as
sessional faculty members compared

to the number employed as regular
faculty members; the absolute size of
the core of regular faculty members
in that discipline, division, program
or field; the level of development

of new courses or programs in the
discipline or program field;. the
administrative assistance available
in the division; and the diversity
and extent of offerings within the
discipline, program field or division.

APPROVED BY COLLEGE COUNCIL -
MAY 5, 1977

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