{"id":15163,"date":"2012-11-29T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2012-11-30T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T12:29:21","slug":"why-it-might-become-harder-for-florida-college-system-professors-to-earn-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/29\/why-it-might-become-harder-for-florida-college-system-professors-to-earn-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It Might Become Harder For Florida College System Professors To Earn Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15164\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 299px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/29\/why-it-might-become-harder-for-florida-college-system-professors-to-earn-tenure\/bcc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15164\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15164\" title=\"BCC\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/11\/BCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kurafire\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty at Brevard Community College and 27 other community colleges may be impacted by proposed changes to the way continuing contracts are awarded.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>State education leaders are holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/app1.fldoe.org\/rules\/default.aspx\">workshop<\/a> this afternoon on hiring requirements at state colleges<\/p>\n<p>The State Board of Education wants to update the process of issuing continuing contracts &#8212; the community college version of tenure &#8212; and align the rule with Florida statutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Education is taking public input on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/cc\/\">community college system proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed rules, full-time faculty would have to meet theses requirements to be eligible for continuing contracts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They must have completed five years of satisfactory service in the same college.<\/li>\n<li>They need the recommendation of the president and approval by the board.<\/li>\n<li>They must comply with criteria including continuing professional development, subject matter knowledge, feedback from students, and service to community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposals suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/education\/florida-professor-tenure-community-college-20121128,0,6218811.story\">tougher standards may be on the way for faculty seeking tenure<\/a> at the state\u2019s 28 community colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Public input is being heard this afternoon at Seminole State College in Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p>No decision is expected by the State Board of Education on the proposed rule until early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State education leaders are holding a workshop this afternoon on hiring requirements at state colleges The State Board of Education wants to update the process of issuing continuing contracts &#8212; the community college version of tenure &#8212; and align the rule with Florida statutes. The Florida Department of Education is taking public input on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[25,1075,1071],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}