Faculty Appointments at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education

These guidelines set forth specific credentialing and appointment requirements for faculty assignments for UNC-Chapel Hill courses granting academic credit offered through the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education (CE). Such courses include:

• Carolina Courses Online
• Self-paced Courses (Correspondence and Online)
• Part Time Classroom Studies
• Outreach Instruction to Inmates

In general, all individuals performing such duties must meet the minimum credentialing requirements of our accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

In order to be instructor of record or award grades, the employee must hold an academic appointment of the appropriate rank and department to teach in one of the Center's CE programs.

If a proposed CE employee has a current academic appointment at UNC-Chapel Hill, this individual only needs the addition of an EPA Non-Faculty appointment rank using rank code 19 (Other) to reflect their added status as a Continuing Education Specialist.

The current base department of the individual may use the EPAWeb invitation feature to allow CE to process a secondary appointment action to add the non-faculty rank or the base department may do this directly in EPAWeb at their option. This added non-faculty appointment is required to designate that the instructional activity is related to a course offered by CE.  To help facilitate payment for teaching or other services rendered, departments are urged to download and complete the revised Continuing Education Instructor Approval Form.

If the current academic appointment is full-time, then payments received by the employee from CE may not exceed the annual overload policy limit for this individual.

The EPAWeb external department invitation feature does not extend access for Reappointment actions, so the academic base department for the employee will need to complete any necessary EPAWeb actions to implement a CE appointment when a secondary appointment action is not used. When the action is completed in EPAWeb, CE will have access to the employee's record in EPAWeb and will be able to perform any future actions without further invitation.

Persons other than regular members of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty may be appointed as a Lecturer to teach in Continuing Education, if they have appropriate the minimum faculty credentials required for instruction, and their only responsibility is teaching in CE course.  The rank modifier of "Adjunct" as a prefix to a faculty rank for a retired faculty member is more appropriate for teaching in CE.  Faculty appointments may range from one to five years in length and carry no salary other than the lump sum payments paid by CE.

"Visiting" may be used in the faculty title when the individual hold faculty credentials at another institution or if they will be appointed to teach at CE for a limited duration of time [e.g., less than 6 months] and the assignment of other faculty ranks is not deemed appropriate.  Visiting appointments are not generally appropriate for faculty teaching self-paced courses since those courses typically require a longer term commitment.  All CE related visiting appointments shall be made consistent with the overall guidelines for visiting faculty.

For existing UNC faculty members who teach in CE and are established within a base academic department, their base (or home) department complete the CE Instructor Approval Form and use rank code 19 (Other) to reflect their secondary appointment as a Continuing Education Specialist in EPAWeb. 

Paperwork for any faculty appointment created specifically for work to be performed in CE is identical to the "standard order" requirements for other faculty appointments in the relevant academic department/ school in which the appointment is based.

For questions or inquiries regarding CE faculty appointments processing, please contact:

Sherry Sparks, Program Assistant
The Friday Center for Continuing Education
CB# 1020, 100 Friday Center Drive Chapel Hill NC 27599-1020
Phone: 919-962-5731 Fax: 919-962-5549
Email: surreal@email.unc.edu