Teaching fellows and assistants receive proper orientation, supervision, and evaluation by appropriate faculty. Minimum standards of preparation and personnel policies governing employment of teaching fellows and assistants are established and enforced. With regard to the obligations and responsibilities of part-time faculty, the institution has a policy designed to integrate them appropriately in the life of the institution. If academic programs are offered off-campus, the institution ensures that the quality of faculty offering these programs is substantially equivalent to that available on campus. 5.B.1 Explicit criteria for faculty appointment, retention, advancement, termination, and due process are well publicized, appropriately administered, an periodically reviewed.
Care is taken to avoid overdependence on graduates of any one institution.
In recruitment, retention, and advancement of peers, faculty roles and procedures are recognized and clearly defined. Home campus faculty are directly involved in the selection and retention of off-campus faculty. Recognizing both the importance of faculty as role models, and the present and projected demographics of the WASC region, institutions are encouraged, within the boundaries defined by institutional purposes, to seek diversity in the hiring of faculty. Nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action policies are published, and made known to faculty, to search committees, and to faculty candidates. These procedures and their results are monitored and periodically reviewed.