New Faculty Info Guide

Undergraduate

Education and Counseling Psychology

Law

Jesuit School of Theology

Engineering (Graduate Programs)

Ranks: Quarterly Adjunct Lecturer (QAL), Adjunct Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, Research Professor, Appointments-in-Residence

Adjunct faculty hold a non-tenurable fixed-term teaching appointment for one or more of the following purposes: to replace faculty on leave of absence or administrative assignment; to address persistent programmatic need on a part-time basis; to address short-term programmatic need on a full-time basis; to provide expertise in a specialty area; or to explore a new instructional area.

Ranks: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer

Non-tenure-track faculty may hold renewable-term or continuing appointments, fixed-term appointments, or other appointments. Faculty on renewable-term or continuing appointments are appointed primarily to teach in an area of persistent programmatic need. Faculty in renewable-term or continuing positions are appointed for a full academic year rather than an academic term.

Visiting Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellow, Professor Emerita or Emeritus, Clinical Professor Emerita or Emeritus

All SCU faculty are expected to provide a nurturing cura personalis, pursue active learning, and provide high-touch and reflective teaching. This means all curriculum should be subject to a continuous process of revision and innovation. Besides classroom instruction, advising and mentoring is a key part of teaching at Santa Clara.

Visit the Teaching Expectations and Academic Policies page to learn more about SCU teaching expectations, course administration requirements, and access required and recommended syllabus statements.

Moving forward, Teaching Effectiveness Standards and Evaluation (TESE) Guidelines will become a central diagnostic to facilitate clear and transparent standards and expectations for faculty and departments university-wide.

Engagement with your department helps you and your department and is expected of all faculty. Each department will have slightly different expectations, so consult with your Chair if you are unsure of what expectations coincide with your faculty role.

Typical expectations as a collegial faculty member of your department might include, but are not limited to:

• Contributing to department discussions through department meetings and retreats.
• Depending on your department and appointment type, you may also be expected to be involved in hiring processes.
• Voting and other decision making processes are specific to your department. 

For ongoing appointment types, these professional activities are distinct from what will be reported as Service for your role.

Service is different from what is expected from just being a good departmental citizen. Departmental, College/University, Professional, and Community service are also expected of most faculty, to differing degrees. You will want to balance the different service roles you take on across these areas of contribution, but most departments will expect that their faculty will contribute to at least some level of department-level service regardless of other service commitments. Talk to your Chair about their service expectations.

Faculty and students benefit when faculty engage in research that advances their understanding of their discipline. At SCU, we follow the teacher-scholar model, a distinctive and deeply integrated approach to faculty work that values both high-quality teaching and meaningful scholarly engagement. In this model, teaching and scholarship are not separate or competing responsibilities; rather, they are seen as mutually enriching components of academic life. In many departments this scholarly work includes the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), but different appointment types and departments have varying expectations. 

At SCU we are rooted in a Jesuit, Catholic tradition, which is dedicated to cura personalis, or educating the whole person. The teacher-scholar model aligns with Ignatian pedagogy which encourages our community ‘to be driven not by profit or power but by deep curiosity and a desire to become their fullest, truest selves’. As we seek the flourishing of both our faculty and students, the teacher-scholar model provides essential grounding as we guide our students to become thoughtful, engaged, and ethical citizens.

Consult with your Department Chair for more specific information regarding expectations for your role.

From scheduling classes to awarding financial aid and checking student rosters, Workday Student provides the community with updated processes and creates a better experience for faculty, staff, and students. There is a tile to access Workday available from the MySCU Portal, our single sign-on (SSO) entry point for all our SCU apps.

Find Workday Student guidance on the following topics:

• Enter grades
• View and print my roster and teaching schedule
• Workday Student general information and training

Please note that most resources in Workday student are unavailable off campus, unless you have first connected to the SCU VPN

All faculty are expected to use Camino, SCU’s branded instance of the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), for both traditional and hybrid/online courses. Camino enables faculty to manage course materials and communicate easily with students. Camino also allows faculty to:

• Post course materials online, including course readings, syllabi, assignments, videos, audio, slide decks, etc.
• Build and manage a grade book for the course
• Administer surveys and assessments
• Receive, grade, and provide feedback on assignments
• Use Camino’s inbox and announcements features to message students
• Establish and monitor discussion boards
• Create group spaces for discussions or for collaboration on projects
• Link to or embed audio and video materials, video recordings of classes, and podcasts

Using Camino:

• To log into Camino, navigate to https://camino.instructure.com or use the tile on your MySCU Portal login page.
  • Note: your assigned courses will be automatically populated into your account.
• To request Course Combinations fill out the Course Combination Request Form.
  • If you teach multiple sections of the same course, they can be combined on Camino so that you post content once for multiple sections to view. It is important that your courses are empty of assignments, files, announcements, etc. before this merge happens. You can still differentiate assignments and quizzes by section.
  • If you teach a course that is cross-listed in two or more departments, your sections will automatically be combined into one Camino course shell.

The Instructional Technology group regularly offers Camino-related workshops to help you further integrate the Camino learning management system more fully into your courses.

For any questions or help related to Camino please contact caminosupport@scu.edu or 408-551-3572.

Reference Canvas's detailed guide to using Camino (SCU's branded version Canvas) to get a more detailed overview of the system.

The Office of Accessible Education (OAE) has been designated by the University to ensure disabled students have equitable access to all academic and University programs. Their goal is to support disabled college students to participate fully in campus life, its programs, and activities. They emphasize growth and individual achievement. They address this goal through the provision of academic accommodations, support services, and auxiliary aids.

SCU has two digital accessibility tools embedded within the Camino LMS:

• UDOIT (Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool) is an accessibility checker that allows you to identify, understand, and fix accessibility issues directly within your Camino courses. For more information, see Instructional Technology’s UDOIT page.
• Convert is a tool that allows you to convert a variety of documents into alternative formats. Convert is automatically installed in all Camino courses on the left hand navigation menu, and can also be accessed via the Convert Files page on the OAE website.

Any student who requires accommodations should coordinate with both the Office of Accessible Education and their instructor. Please contact the Office of Accessible Education at oae@scu.edu or 408-554-4109.

To order textbooks for your class:

• Order online via the BNED tile found in your MySCU
  • Your submission will show online within 48 hours of submitting the request.
  • You can submit No Textbook Required Orders through the online portal.
  • AIP (BNED) keeps track of your order history, allowing future readoption of texts entered through the online portal.
  • AIP is part of your SSO (Single Sign On) and can be found in your MySCUPortal under the BNED tile

Please review the Faculty Textbook Ordering page for more information

Copies of textbooks can also be placed on Course Reserve at the library for your students to use.

For questions related to course reserves, please email libraryreserve@scu.edu or call 408-554-5240

Note:

No personal copies can be included in the course reserves, but if you would like to donate the book, the library can make it available.

Desk copies can be made available to faculty upon request directly to the publisher, or with assistance from the department administrative staff. A desk copy is typically one free paper copy or electronic version of the book for the faculty member to use in preparing and teaching their course.

You can find your class roster on Camino by logging in and going to the “People” tab or via your Workday Student account (reference instruction guide above).

Instructors should verify that all students registered for the course, based on the course roster, are in attendance during the first class meeting.

Note:

Students who do not attend the first day of a class are subject to administrative cancellation of their enrollment in that class in order to make space available to other students. A student who must miss the first day of a class and wishes to remain in the course should contact the instructor in advance. No student who misses the first day of a class should assume that they have been dropped from the course. Students are responsible for checking the status of their enrollment in all courses prior to the end of the late registration period.

If an instructor would like to drop a student for non-attendance, they can send an email to registrar@scu.edu with the student's name, ID and the course (including section number).

The paperless student course evaluations are generated at the end of every course. Students will have a specific time frame to complete the evaluation (i.e., before finals week). If the evaluation is not completed within the timeframe specified, a delay will be placed on the student’s account preventing them from viewing their grades online for an additional week after the original posting date. Instructors should encourage students to complete the online feedback form. Results of these forms are emailed to instructors after classes are complete and grades are posted. There are many other methods of evaluating teaching available to you.

Please also check in with your department chair for any department-specific standards for conducting narrative end-of-quarter evaluations. For faculty who will undergo evaluation, the SETs and additional student evaluations you or your department use will become part of your evaluation portfolio.

SCU community members have access to past SET reports from the “Student Evaluations” tile on the MySCU single sign-on page, or directly from the Evaluations page.

While the version you will receive has numerical results and narrative comments, the version posted online has only the numerical results.

Contact the Center for Teaching Excellence for more information.