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Adjunct instructors are classified as either Adjunct Instructor, Adjunct Lecturer, or Adjunct<br />
Senior Lecturer. Adjunct Faculty who serve as Clinical Instructors in the Allied Health &<br />
Health Science fields are further classified as Level 1, 2, or 3 based on their longevity in<br />
the role (2017-2018 Adjunct Faculty CBA). All faculty classifications are made initially at<br />
the time of hire with set processes for promotion to the next highest level.<br />
As a group, faculty at <strong>RVCC</strong> are highly experienced in either the field of education, their<br />
respective field of study, or both. Faculty with specialized credentials and varied<br />
experiences bring quality programming to the students. For example, the primary<br />
Mathematics professor previously worked for the State of NH Department of Education and<br />
helped to develop the state’s mathematics standards. Faculty in our many Allied Health,<br />
Health Science, and Nursing programs hold licenses to practice in their professions, and<br />
often continue to work in their fields to maintain clinical competence. Current full-time<br />
faculty are categorized at either the Professor or Associate Professor level. Most faculty<br />
have advanced degrees with the majority having Master’s level training. Currently, <strong>RVCC</strong><br />
has four faculty with Doctoral degrees, sixteen with Master’s, and two with Bachelor’s. The<br />
faculty with Bachelor’s Degrees as their terminal degrees are teaching in certificate<br />
programs where the Bachelor’s degree is the allowable standard for teaching.<br />
The College tends to have more female educators than male with women making up 73%<br />
of the full-time faculty population. This gender distribution is similar to the distribution of<br />
the student population and is influenced by the heavy role of Nursing and Allied Health &<br />
Health Science programs that make up the academic Catalog. River Valley has the most<br />
health related programs of the seven community colleges in the NH System, and the<br />
faculty reflect these women-dominated professions. The college faculty are primarily white,<br />
with a distribution consistent with the ethnicity of the NH counties the College serves.<br />
While the College does not have any specific goals for the achievement of diversity among<br />
our faculty and academic staff, our race/ethnicity percentage exceeds the regional data of<br />
the three counties we serve.<br />
The College supports one full-time faculty teaching Mathematics and one full-time faculty<br />
teaching Biological Science courses. All other Liberal Arts positions are filled with adjunct<br />
faculty. The College supports two full-time faculty in our Business program, one full-time<br />
faculty in our Computer Science program, and one full-time faculty in our Early Childhood<br />
Education program. <strong>RVCC</strong> boasts a large number of Allied Health programs whose<br />
individual accreditation requirements often predicate a set number of full-time faculty be<br />
assigned to those programs directly. Due to decreased numbers of full-time faculty, some<br />
programs are managed by part-time Program Directors (which are classified as staff<br />
positions although they may also hold an adjunct teaching position); as well as some<br />
programs which do not have Program Directors but are managed by the Department Chair<br />
instead. The ratio of students to faculty, although increased since elimination of full-time<br />
positions before AY ’17-18, still remains low.<br />
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