The
Handbook for Teaching Faculty is designed, first and foremost, for the
teaching faculty of Calvin College, i.e., for those Calvin employees who
hold the rank of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor,
or professor at Calvin College. Although part-time instructors, assistant
instructors, librarians, administrators who have faculty status, and other
Calvin employees may find the information and policies included herein
useful, the intended audience is the teaching faculty.
The
handbook serves the members of the teaching faculty in a number of ways.
Its most immediate function is to provide them with information which
will facilitate their work as teachers and scholars and which will set
forth their personal and professional expectations and obligations as
members of the Calvin teaching faculty.
The
handbook also contains the most important educational and administrative
practices and policies of Calvin College.
For the most part, information is not included in this handbook if it is included
in other official college publications, such as the College Catalog, the
Staff Handbook, or the Student Handbook. Rather, certain subjects are
simply identified in this handbook and reference made to the college document
in which detailed information about the subjects can be found.
Information that is obsolete probably is worse than no information at all; hence,
careful and continuing efforts will be made to maintain the information
in the handbook on a current status. Between revisions of the handbook,
changes in policy and procedures that have faculty, administrative, or
Board of Trustees approval will supersede the policies stated in this
handbook. Such changes will be incorporated into the next edition. Every
effort will be made to keep the version on the web current.
Joel A. Carpenter
Provost
