Department Checklist - Full-Time Faculty/Instructors

Before the Term begins

1. Provide any additional information Human Resources may need to process faculty member/instructor.

2. Email faculty member/instructor on accessing Palm Beach State email.

3. Provide textbooks (preferably sent to the faculty member/instructor's home).

4. Email faculty member/instructor their teaching assignments for the upcoming term

5. Monitor that the faculty member/instructor has created a faculty web page, created and uploaded compliant syllabi, and certified the textbooks they use - Provide link to this web page - http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/x15142.xml which has web page/syllabi information and this page http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/x18802.xml which has textbook certification information.

6. Assign the faculty member/instructor an office and ensure office has furnishings and is clean.

7. Work with IT on a computer, either using the computer of the faculty member they replaced or securing a new computer (faculty can choose desktop or laptop).

8. Work with IT on a telephone line and phone number for the faculty member.

9. Process paperwork on key requests (door key and desk/cabinet keys).

10. Provide the faculty member with a mailbox in the department office area/workroom.

11. Provide information on obtaining a parking sticker.

12. Request electronic copies of syllabi for the semester

13. Obtain copy of faculty/instructor schedule including office hours, lunch breaks, college business, teaching - total must be 35 hours - enter data into PantherNet and post on faculty door. Templates are provided at http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/x6859.xml

14. Process IRM (Instructor Resource Management) contracts for all classes - pre and final contracts. Copy of final contract is sent to HR.

During the Term

1. Ensure that faculty/instructors are accessing rosters and checking that all students in class are on the roll.

2.  Remind faculty/instructors on mid-term grading procedures.

3. Remind faculty/instructors on student assessment procedures.

4. Remind faculty/instructors to post syllabi for the next term by published deadlines.

As the Term Ends

1. Remind faculty/instructors on grading procedures

2. Check grading reports for "I" and "L" grades  - follow-up with faculty/instructor.

3. Obtain copy of grade book for filing (should include grades for all assignments) using end-of-term check-out sheet (example)

www.palmbeachstate.edu/documents/academic_services/end_of_term.docx.