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What should Community college instructors have as far as credentials? At my college; they can be a school bus driver and teach electrical engineering technology and be the director of the department. I know three that are heads of their department and have only two year associates degrees.
What should Community college instructors have as far as credentials? At my college; they can be a school bus driver and teach electrical engineering technology and be the director of the department. I know three that are heads of their department and have only two year associates degrees.
I have never heard of such a thing. Is this a regionally accredited institution? CC instructors around here have a graduate degree at minimum, and most of them have PhDs.
What should Community college instructors have as far as credentials? At my college; they can be a school bus driver and teach electrical engineering technology and be the director of the department. I know three that are heads of their department and have only two year associates degrees.
Apparently the credentials required are more lax at your school than at ours.
Why do you teach there if you are questioning the requirements?
Regionally accredited schools based in Kentucky are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is the strictest regional accreditor, and schools tend to follow their faculty credential guidelines very closely. These are their faculty credential guidelines.
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When an institution defines faculty qualifications using faculty credentials, institutions should use the
following as credential guidelines: a. Faculty teaching general education courses at the undergraduate level: doctorate or master’s
degree in the teaching discipline or master’s degree with a concentration in the teaching
discipline (a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline). b. Faculty teaching associate degree courses designed for transfer to a baccalaureate degree:
doctorate or master’s degree in the teaching discipline or master’s degree with a concentration in
the teaching discipline (a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline).
Apparently the credentials required are more lax at your school than at ours.
Why do you teach there if you are questioning the requirements?
Well in my area (Western KY) our CC has saturated the market for technical jobs. I am forced to stay and make the best of it. I do have the credentials for my discipline, but our good ole boy network is continuing to rob the community of quality education. Hoping to find ways to improve our community's lack of quality education options...
I have never heard of such a thing. Is this a regionally accredited institution? CC instructors around here have a graduate degree at minimum, and most of them have PhDs.
We have gone through two SACS reviews/ audits over the past years- finishing the 2nd one last fall. We have no masters level instructors in our tech college teaching. We have one BS; one AS; and one Phd or Eds (not sure-they call him Dr.) that does online courses. The remainder have nothing....they call themselves teachers and have never heard of the NTE or PPST....
The CC I attended for awhile... Instructors were all PhD's.
I seriously doubt this. There are very few PhDs in subjects like accounting, computer science, fine arts, journalism, etc., which are all very popular community college subjects. Those that do have PhD's in those subjects would probably not work at a community college.
Honestly, I can't think of a single journalism professor, even at major colleges, that has a PhD. They are mostly former practicing journalists or editors.
In my experience:
Academic subjects? Minimum of a Master's degree in the subject. Sometimes more.
Technical subjects? Usually a bachelors (minimum) and extensive work experience.
But every place's/department's criteria are different. In some cases way different.
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