Sustainability in Academe
Blazing a Trail general but strategic focus on key business, industry, and global issues that will shape the future business landscape and thinking in Southeast Asia. The program is set to offer a multicultural mix of participants (with senior executives coming from other ASEAN-member countries), modular courses spread out across six months, multilocation delivery (Philippines, Indonesia, and Spain), and an international faculty (the combined roster of faculty from UA&P, IESE Business School, and affiliate schools in Asia).
courses be full-fledged graduates of appropriate master’s degrees, and 60% of the faculty of the specialization programs be in the graduate level with a doctorate degree. This would rationalize the laying out of a clear career path and development program for each faculty member. To enable teachers to carry out their workload efficiently and effectively, the management ensures the following: •
REPUTABLE FACULTY In accordance with university policy, faculty members are chosen from a select pool of candidates with at least a master’s degree if teaching in the undergraduate level, and preferably with a doctorate degree if teaching in the graduate level. From incorporation to separation or retirement, faculty members are given the opportunity to undergo internal and external means of personal and professional development in teaching, research, and extension. They are and shall be appropriately compensated and evaluated toward the further enhancement of their academic performance and initiatives. Interdisciplinary dialogue and faculty mentoring are encouraged among teachers, to enable them to discuss the dynamics and integral applications of the different disciplines and the University’s corporate culture, Christian orientation, and lifestyle. The goal of the University is that 100% of the faculty handling the core curriculum and undergraduate
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New teachers are coached through observation and chat sessions at least once a quarter, and one- to three-year teachers at least once a semester; The compensation package is clearly delineated for the faculty in all stages and aspects of their professional engagement; and, A complete database on the University and college/school faculty is maintained as easy reference for policy and other decisions and other needs.
Classification Employees in the faculty track are classified as full-time or parttime. A full-time faculty member renders 44 hours per week of service, equivalent to at least 15 units in a regular semester. He or
she is not employed elsewhere, and after six months of teaching in the University, enjoys all the benefits due to a regular employee of the institution. On the other hand, a teacher who renders service for a minimum of three hours per week is classified as a part-time lecturer. The number of hours he or she renders varies on a semestral basis, and he or she may have professional involvement elsewhere. Considering the impact of teachers on the lives of the students regardless of number of units taught, the same personal and professional qualifications should be demanded of both full-time and part-time teachers. They shall be subject to the same selection, hiring, salary movements (mutatis mutandis), and separation criteria, and shall be distinguished only by the time they dedicate to university work. Full-time instructors shall have an ordinary load of 30 teaching units a year, open to load reduction but only for mentoring, professorial research, work of governance and administration, or further studies, and subject further to Operations Committee (OpCom) approval. The teaching load of professors is capped at 18 units a year for them to be able to do research.
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