Red Rocks Community College Procedure

Category:	College Personnel
Title:	Departmental Leadership Team
Number:	RRPR 3-67	Approved:	September 25, 2007
Effective:	September 25, 2007	Revised:	February 15, 2007

Purpose:	To develop a structure that enables departments to shape their responsibilities and accountabilities in response to their collective goals and the College's strategic plan.
Scope:	Full-Time Faculty, Professional Technical Staff

The department leadership team procedure will outline the following goals:

Faculty/Pro-Tech involvement with all areas of the College;
Increased integration of part-time instructors into departments;
Greater efficiency of departmental operations through broader involvement of department members;
Stronger connections with the community;
Departmental responsiveness to institutional goals and community needs;
Increase student and graduate satisfaction with programs and program outcomes;
Departmental compensations are assigned to the departments by the vice president based upon qualitative and quantitative criteria, including FTE; number of part-time instructors; number of prefixes; and other complexity factors.
Each department will elect one leader for a two-year term by May 1st of each election year by a majority affirmative vote of the department members and approval by the division dean. Leaders may be chosen from outside the department if there is no majority affirmative vote. A tie or lack of majority affirmative vote will be resolved by the division dean. The 12-month leader cycle is defined as the day after the end of spring semester through the last day of spring semester.
The vice president will appropriate additional funds for special projects, e.g.; program innovation and development, based upon an RFP process.