6.6 | English Language Competence of Instructional Staff

6.6.2 | Policy Procedures & Responsibilities

Procedures and Responsibilities for Instructional Hiring

1. Individuals being interviewed for an instructional position at Sampoerna University will be carefully evaluated prior to being hired to ensure that they possess effective communication skills in the English language.
2. All individuals being considered for a faculty position must provide evidence deemed sufficient by the appropriate Dean that English is their primary language or that they have achieved an appropriate score on an Approved Test of English Language Proficiency. An English Proficiency Form , with related evidence of mastery of the spoken English language, must be included in the individual’s hiring packet.
3. Each hiring packet submitted for instructional personnel whose primary language is not English must be interviewed by the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs or designee holding a credential in English as a Second Language. The interviewer (VRAA or designee) must certify English language proficiency before the candidate can be hired.

Procedures and Responsibilities Related to Current Faculty

1. It is the responsibility of Faculty Deans and Heads of Study Programs to monitor the English proficiency of current faculty and to address deficiencies where there is a need. If there is a reasonable doubt that the individual can effectively express himself or herself in the English language, the Dean or Study Program Head will:
   1. Conduct a personal interview with the faculty member
   2. Interview a representative sample of students from each class or laboratory taught or supervised by the that faculty member; and
   3. Provide the VRAA with a written assessment of the individual’s English language proficiency. Concurrently, the Dean or Study Program Head may address the problem through informal measures and actions.
   4. The VRAA may determine that reevaluation and additional prescribed instruction may be necessary in certain cases.
2. Refusal by an individual to participate in any assessment of his or her academic English language competency, and prescribed remediation, or failure to satisfactorily demonstrate proficiency in the use of the English language as prescribed in this policy, may result in appropriate action, up to and including dismissal, being taken by the University.
3. University policy does not permit discrimination against any person on any basis prohibited by law, including discrimination on the basis of national origin. The VRAA, Deans, and Heads of Study Programs will take such steps as are necessary to avoid discrimination on the basis of national origin in the implementation, operation, and evaluation of this policy and program.