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 is 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Information that is obsolete probably is worse than no information at all; hence, careful and continuing efforts will be made to maintain the information in the handbook in a current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 during the next revision. Every effort will be made to keep the version on the Web current.
