{"id":351,"date":"2018-04-09T23:02:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T23:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/09\/virtualofficehours\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:45:48","slug":"virtualofficehours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/09\/virtualofficehours\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinnipiac approves virtual office hours policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">By Thamar Bailey<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">Starting this fall Quinnipiac professors will be able to hold office hours not in person, but through their screens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">According to media studies professor and Faculty Senate Chair Lisa Burns, a recent policy change will allow faculty members to hold office hours either in person, virtually or both. Professors will be able to hold virtual office hours via online communication platforms like Skype, Zoom or email. It\u2019s really about \u201cwhatever best meets their students\u2019 needs,\u201d Burns said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">The amended policy will also allow for faculty to shift their office hours throughout the semester if needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">\u201cFor example, a professor may not need to hold office hours during the first week of the semester,\u201d Burns said. \u201cBut they might add extra office hours the week before an exam or a major project.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">The original policy called for each faculty member to hold at least one hour of office hours for each three credit course taught each semester. For a three credit course a professor would need to hold 15 office hours throughout the course of the semester. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">Furthermore, office hours needed to be posted and remain on file within the faculty members\u2019 school or college office, according to Annalisa Zinn, vice president for academic innovation and effectiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">While the quantity of office hours hasn\u2019t changed, revisions were made to \u201caccomodate and balance the needs of students, variability in the types of courses (on campus vs. online), the needs of faculty, scheduling, space opportunities and constraints for both students and faculty,\u201d Zinn said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\">Zinn said she believes faculty will have a positive reaction to the policy change, \u201cas indicated by how it was well-received by the Faculty Senate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quinnipiac Faculty Senate approved virtual office hours next fall. Professors will be able to hold office hours through online platforms like Skype or email in order to better accomidate students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,6],"tags":[209,208,4],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-quinnipiac","tag-faculty-senate","tag-office-hours","tag-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}