Section R765-165-10 - CE Instructor QualificationsCollege or university faculty or public school educators teach concurrent enrollment courses for the offering institution.
10.1. Selection of CE Instructors LEAs and the participating USHE institution shall jointly select instructors for concurrent enrollment courses. Selection criteria for instructors are the same as those criteria applied to other adjunct faculty appointments in specific departments within the USHE institution. Once approved as an adjunct, a CE instructor who teaches a CE course in 2018-19 or 2019-20 may continue to teach CE courses given curricular standards and student performance outcomes in the CE instructor's classes meet sponsoring academic department standards. Institutions shall establish a process for determining, in consultation with LEA partners, whether an eligible instructor who previously taught a CE course is no longer qualified to teach the CE course. The appropriate academic department at the institution must approve each CE instructor prior to teaching a concurrent enrollment class.10.2. Institutional Faculty CE Instructors - A USHE institution faculty member is an eligible CE instructor.10.3. LEA Employee Instructor Qualifications - An LEA employee is an eligible CE instructor if the LEA employee is licensed under statutory Education Professional Licensure, is supervised by an institution of higher education, and meets the following requirements: 10.3.1. is approved as an eligible instructor by the institution of higher education that provides the concurrent enrollment course taught by the LEA employee as provided under Subsection R765-165-10.4;10.3.2. has an upper level mathematics credential issued by the State Board of Education, or10.3.3. teaches a concurrent enrollment course that the LEA employee taught during the 2018-19 or 2019-20 school year.10.4. A USHE institution shall approve an LEA employee as an eligible instructor: 10.4.1. for a career and technical education concurrent enrollment course, if the LEA employee has: 10.4.1.1. a degree, certificate, or industry certification in the concurrent enrollment course's academic field; or10.4.1.2. qualifying experience, as determined by the institution of higher education.10.4.2. for a concurrent enrollment course other than a career and technical education course, if the LEA employee has: 10.4.2.1. a master's degree or higher in the concurrent enrollment course's academic field;10.4.2.2. a master's degree or higher in any academic field and at least 18 completed credit hours of graduate course work in an academic field that is relevant to the concurrent enrollment course; or10.4.2.3. qualifying experience, as determined by the institution of higher education.10.5. Appeals Process for Instructor Qualification Approvals - If a designated service area USHE institution determines an LEA employee is not qualified to teach a concurrent enrollment course and the LEA has exhausted all administrative remedies available at the institution, the LEA may appeal the decision in writing to the Commissioner of Higher Education within 15 calendar days of the institution's final decision. The Commissioner shall appoint an appeals committee consisting of the associate commissioner for academic affairs and two USHE chief academic officers who are uninvolved in the decision being appealed. 10.5.1. The appeals committee will review the LEA's appeal and the institution's decision.10.5.2. The institution and LEA will provide the appeals committee with any material documents and information necessary for a complete review. The committee may request additional documentation or information as necessary.10.5.3. The appeals committee will provide a recommendation to the Commissioner, which may include affirming or reversing the institution's decision.10.5.4. The Commissioner shall make a final decision and issue it to the institution and the LEA in writing.10.5.5. After the Commissioner has issued a decision, there will be no further appeals or reviews.10.6. Criminal Background Checks - USHE faculty who are not public school educators and who teach concurrent enrollment courses defined under this policy in a high school shall complete a criminal background check consistent with Title 53G, Chapter 11, Part 4. The faculty's institution must determine if a criminal background check is required and, if so, must complete the background check and maintain required documentation consistent with the law.10.7. Faculty Development - Concurrent enrollment instructors shall be included as fully as possible in the academic life of the supervising academic department. USHE institutions and LEAs shall jointly initiate faculty development, including appropriate workshop experiences to adequately prepare instructors to teach concurrent enrollment students and course content prior to offering concurrent enrollment courses. If a USHE institution uses an instructor of record or co-teaching instructional model, the institution faculty shall fully engage and prepare the public school educator to successfully teach the curriculum prior to the beginning of the course. Each CE instructor must complete any faculty development required by the sponsoring academic department at the institution prior to teaching the concurrent enrollment class. USHE faculty are responsible to understand and comply with federal and state laws governing public school student privacy and student records.Utah Admin. Code R765-165-10
Adopted by Utah State Bulletin Number 2021-04, effective 1/28/2021