Guidelines for Teaching Assistant Appointments at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education

These guidelines set forth specific credentialing and appointment requirements for teaching assistant (TA) assignments for UNC-CH 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 TA 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 have an academic appointment at the appropriate academic rank and academic department in order to teach through one of the Friday Center CE programs.

If is the instructor of record is a graduate student, CE may appoint them as a Teaching Assistant (TA) in CE as long as they have the associated academic credentials to teach in that academic department. The academic base department remains the department of the student's major and that department's approval of the EPA Web form is indicating that their credentials are appropriate for the CE course being taught. Students cannot hold a
faculty rank as long as they are UNC-CH Students.

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.

Paperwork for any TA appointments created specifically for work to be performed in CE is identical to the "standard order" requirements for other student 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