BSC FACULTY HANDBOOK

A digital copy of the BSC Faculty Handbook is available at www.bismarckstate.edu/hr/fachand.pdf.

RESOURCES OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and American Disabilities Act of 1990

There are countless resources, one of which is http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm.

COPYRIGHT

The TEACH Act of 2002
The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 updates copyright law for online instruction. The copyright law is not the same for online as it is for traditional on ground classes. This web site has a nice overview providing more resources. For example, the law allows online faculty to use copyrighted materials without permission or royalties if certain requirements are met. See http://online.fsu.edu/onlinesupport/instructor/teachact.html.

Copying of Books and Periodicals for Class
"Guidelines for Classroom Copying of Books and Periodicals" is available at http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/INTELLECTUALPROPERTY/clasguid.htm. This site explains that a faculty member can make multiple copies for classroom use if it's a poem of not more than 250 words, an article if it's fewer than 2500 words, or an excerpt if it's not more than 10 percent of the work. It is illegal to copy more than one work per author. The limit for any course using such copies is a total of nine. One may not make copies of workbooks, standardized tests, and the like.

CRITICAL THINKING AND ACTIVE LEARNING

Charles Bonwell, a recent presenter at a BSC faculty development session, offers practical advice and step-by-step instructions on how to run classrooms with active (not passive) learning. To see more, go to www.active-learning-site.com. The web site has an extensive bibliography as well.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (AAUP)

The AAUP has guidelines on Academic Freedom and Professional Ethics, to name a few. The web site covers much more of course. For example, academic freedom is a term bandied about, but what is it really? According to the AAUP, teachers have the freedom to research and to publish, teachers should refrain from controversial material not relevant to their subject, and college professors are free from institutional censorship or discipline. A supervisor can tell a faculty member to administer a test for the college in a classroom and that would not be a violation of "academic freedom." See http://www.aaup.org.

FORMS AT BSC

Located under "My Computer" if you are using the BSC system, you can access many forms for faculty business at BSC under the "G" Drive, then select Group, then Staff, then Faculty. Because this is in the BSC computer system, off campus faculty would need to request such information directly from their chairs. Click here to view an often requested form by all faculty.