Setting Distance Ed Expectations in Faculty Contracts

Nearly all colleges and universities now offer at least some courses in a distance education format.

While these delivery methods have expanded rapidly, faculty attitudes towards teaching online have not always kept pace.

If your faculty contracts and negotiated agreements do not yet include language covering distance education expectations, here is your opportunity to correct this oversight.

To provide clarity for all parties, institutions need to incorporate distance education-specific terms in their collective bargaining agreements and institutional policies.

Experienced educator and attorney Stephanie Delaney, J.D., Ph.D., shows you how to review existing contracts and policies against a detailed checklist and make recommended improvements.

In 60-minutes she explains how to avoid misunderstandings, faculty disputes, and hard feelings and ensure that all major distance education issues are covered.

In this 60 minute seminar you will learn:

• How to identify gaps in contracts and policies
• Where to find common ground between faculty and administration on key issues
• The language other institutions use in actual contracts
• Results of a nationwide study of collective bargaining agreements
• Suggested wording on compensation, intellectual property rights, definitions of distance education, and faculty load
• How to improve clarity by using Policy Analysis Frameworks
• Ways to adapt policies and contracts to your unique institutional culture
• How to prepare for upcoming contract negotiations
• Collective bargaining implications of distance education

Who will benefit:
Distance education administrators and campus legal representatives, including:

• Presidents
• Deans
• Provosts
• Academic Administrators
• Department Chairs
• Campus Legal Affairs
• Vice Presidents of Instruction
• Faculty Union Representatives
• Distance and Online Learning Directors

This seminar is particularly important for institutions facing upcoming contract negotiations.

Your presenter
Stephanie Delaney, J.D., Ph.D.,  is an experienced community college educator, an attorney and an author. She is currently the Director of eLearning at Cascadia Community College, where she supports faculty in distance education pedagogy. She has taught law and environment courses for over ten years. Delaney earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership in Higher Education/Distance Education at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and she also holds a law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.

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