{"id":1270,"date":"2021-12-13T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T23:21:19","slug":"faculty-english-proficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Faculty English Proficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Value Statement <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Austin Community College District will comply with the Texas Education Code mandate that courses offered for credit are taught in the English language and that all faculty members are proficient in the use of the English language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Administrative Rule <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A faculty member may use a foreign language, including American Sign Language (ASL), to conduct foreign language courses designed to be taught in a foreign language.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The District shall use the \u201cTest of Spoken English\u201d of the Educational Testing Service to determine English language proficiency.&nbsp; All faculty members, as defined in HB 638, whose primary language is not English, shall be required to take the \u201cTest of Spoken English\u201d.&nbsp; Those faculty who do not achieve a satisfactory score on the \u201cTest of Spoken English\u201d must enroll in the appropriate ESL\/ESOL oral communication class until deemed proficient in English.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of enrollment in either English proficiency course shall be the responsibility of the faculty member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Value Statement The Austin Community College District will comply with the Texas Education Code mandate that courses offered for credit are taught in the English language and that all faculty members are proficient in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/?p=1270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/administrative-rules\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}