Contract Processing
Annual & Adjunct Contract Process
St. Catherine University utilizes two separate systems to support faculty appointment and contract processing.
Dynamic Forms is used for annual faculty appointment letters, including routing, approvals, and electronic faculty signatures for full-time faculty appointments.
Faculty Load and Compensation (FLAC) supports adjunct faculty course assignments, compensation processing, and related instructional workload management.
This webpage serves as the central resource hub for both processes and includes training materials, user guides, troubleshooting resources, and evaluation information for faculty, supervisors, and academic leaders.
Annual Faculty Appointment Process (Dynamic Forms)
St. Catherine University has launched a new electronic Faculty Appointment Letter process through Dynamic Forms. This updated process replaces the previous workflow-based system and provides a centralized platform for appointment routing, approvals, and faculty signatures.
Step 1: Supervisor Initiation
Supervisors initiate the Faculty Appointment form within Dynamic Forms by entering the faculty member’s SCU ID and completing appointment information.
Step 2: Dean Review
Once submitted, the form routes electronically to the appropriate Dean for review and approval.
Step 3: Faculty Review and Signature
Faculty members receive an automated email notification prompting them to review, comment on, accept or decline, and electronically sign their appointment letter.
Adjunct Contract & Compensation Process (FLAC)
Faculty Load and Compensation (FLAC) is the University’s system for adjunct faculty course assignments and compensation processing. Adjunct contract rollout is currently underway across the University.
The resources below are publicly available to individuals with the link to support ease of access and reduce system access barriers during implementation.
How to Understand your Paycheck
Making Course Assignment Changes
University Faculty Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure (UFEPT)
Faculty Evaluation
At St. Catherine University faculty evaluation emanates from the mission and vision of the University. The purpose of evaluation is to recognize faculty accomplishments and encourage continued faculty growth and development while enhancing and advancing the institution as a whole.
This emphasis on both the individual and institution promotes excellence. As a comprehensive institution, St. Kate’s has created a process that is appropriately broad to honor the diverse work and training of the faculty. Faculty evaluation at St. Catherine University is guided by four particular goals:
- To foster quality teaching that supports the University mission
- To foster scholarship and professional accomplishment of all faculty members
- To foster engagement of faculty members in service and leadership within the University, their profession and community
- To establish a base for equitable personnel decisions including contracts, promotion and tenure.
In order to accomplish these goals, the evaluation system is designed to provide a comprehensive institutional review of faculty members that is efficient, fair and rigorous. This evaluation system directly supports our work of educating students to lead and influence.
The evaluation process includes quality of teaching, scholarship and professional accomplishment, and service and leadership, with the greatest emphasis placed on the quality of teaching. This process allows for broad input and may include students, peers, program directors, department chairs, members of the administration, outside evaluators, and the University Faculty Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure (UFEPT) Committee.
Each department/program provides a context for evaluation of an individual faculty member’s teaching, scholarship and professional accomplishment, and service and leadership. Rather than mandating that particular activities fall within teaching, scholarship and professional accomplishment, or service and leadership, the faculty recognize that a single activity might be characterized in multiple categories, depending upon the context.