Academic Accreditation

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1. Introduction

The purpose of this Essential Faculty Guidelines is to orient and familiarize faculty, especially the new ones, to the rules, regulations, policies, procedures, systems and practices that the College of Business Administration (CBA) considers as appropriate. It is prepared mostly by codifying several communications already made to the faculty through different memos, faculty meetings, and other discussions.

This document is specific to the CBA and is only supplementary to any other relevant document published by the University. The CBA would like every faculty member to read and be thoroughly familiar with this document. On most areas of faculty's performance, the provisions in this document serve as standards and benchmarks to do business in the College. However, any subsequent communication modifying the provisions in this document takes precedence if it is from an appropriate authority. Besides, the faculty member should read and understand the Students' Manual in full to be familiar with several academic rules and regulations. This is essential to discharge his duties and responsibilities as a teacher and an academic advisor.

In the subsequent parts, this document covers mainly seven aspects. To begin with, it defines the faculty, and explains the faculty orientation system being followed in CBA. Then it briefly summarizes the faculty's rights and authority as also the privileges and benefits. Further, it elaborately discusses the duties and responsibilities of the faculty with guidelines and procedural details, wherever required. Then it has a section dealing with other important directions. The final section presents the faculty evaluation schemes and methods being employed by CBA.

2. The Faculty

In the CBA, faculty members are those having the academic rank of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturer, who have been duly appointed by the Rector of the University with the primary responsibilities of carrying out teaching and scholarly activities.

3. Faculty Orientation

The CBA considers new faculty orientation as an important step in maintammg an organizational culture that is conducive for achieving its strategic goals and objectives. There are mainly three strategies employed by the CBA for faculty orientation as follows.

3. 1 Essential Faculty Guidelines

Every new faculty, upon joining, will be provided with a copy of this document, which serves as a quick rule-book and guidelines for conducting his business in the College. The faculty member has the responsibility to read it in full and be conversant with the rules, procedures and guidelines given in it.

3. 2 Chairman's Meetings with the New Faculty

Initially, the chairman of the concerned department conducts several rounds of meetings and discussions with the new faculty primarily for learning from the faculty acceptable and adoptable elements of his previous organizational culture/s, as also for introducing and explaining the desired elements of the CBA's existing culture to him. Such meetings focus on revealing the CBA's quality expectations from the new faculty. Besides, the meetings serve as a basis for ice-breaking and opening the doors of free communication between the department ...