The teaching load for all faculty members in the unit is 12 semester hours. Faculty members are not provided with release time from teaching for any of these activities. Because of her added responsibilities related to accounting and other fiscal matters, she has limited time to provide secretarial services to the division chair. None of the program coordinators or the 18 full-time faculty members are provided with secretarial support. Some of the teaching stations assigned to the faculty members in the Division of Education are not adequate.
Some classrooms are crowded, noisy, and poorly ventilated.
Rexburg is located approximately 400 miles from Lewiston in southeast Idaho. Upon successful completion of the 67 credit hours at Ricks College and official admission to LCSC, students enroll in 13 semester credit hours as a cohort during a spring semester. Students must then apply for admission to LCSC's teacher education program. The next 16 semester hours are taken on the LCSC campus during the summer. All courses, except the 16 semester hours taken on the LCSC campus in the summer, are taught at Rexburg by LCSC adjunct faculty members.