Minimum graduate hours to teach NCA accredited schools

OK,

A discussion evolved regarding the actual NCA minumum graduate hours required to teach in an academic discipline.

Some said it was 17 - some said 18 - no one could point to it on the Internet.

Anyone here know?

 

I've taught at an NCA-accredited school for more than a year, and I've submitted hundreds of faculty approvals. There is no prescribed standard. UoP has standards in this area, but they vary from course-to-course, from zero on up.

 

Re: Re: Minimum graduate hours to teach NCA accredited schools

Incorrect. NCA GIR #9 sets a degree standard. Apparently part of that is determined by each State Board of Education/Department of Education.

I'm looking for the Ilinois standard.

 

Re: Re: Re: Minimum graduate hours to teach NCA accredited schools

I was referring to the first inquiry, which regarded the number of hours in a specific area.

 

I could not find an official source, but did find the following:

• The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) requires that graduate students who have primary responsibility for teaching a course have at least 18 hours of graduate level courses in the field that they are going to teach. source
  
• In an associate program, full-time and part-time faculty members teaching credit courses in the following areas: humanities/fine arts; social/behavioral sciences; and natural sciences/mathematics (4.8.2.1-01) must have completed at least 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline and hold at least a master's degree, or hold the minimum of a master's degree with a major in the teaching discipline. source and source
  

And then I got tired of looking.

 

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  Thank you - it's a start