The Faculty Agreement

This agreement is between Hope MetaVersity ("the school," "we," "us") and the person signing it ("you," "the professor"). It takes effect on the date you sign.

Section 1

What you are joining

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You are joining Hope MetaVersity as a professor. You teach in a School or on a Campus, at a course level, in a format you choose.

This is not employment. You are not our employee, contractor, partner, or agent. You are not obligated to produce a set number of courses, keep a schedule, or be available to us. We are not obligated to publish everything you send.

Nobody is paid by the school for 100-level or 200-level courses — not you, not us. Those courses are free to students. At 300-level you are paid directly by the students you teach; the school does not take a cut and does not process that money.

You keep whatever else you do. Your own channel, your own business, your own products, your own students elsewhere. Teaching here is not exclusive and never becomes exclusive.

Section 2

Your content stays yours

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2.1  You keep your copyright

You own everything you make. Your videos, your recordings, your writing, your slides, your voice. Signing this does not transfer your copyright to us, and we will never ask you to transfer it. If you leave, you leave owning everything you arrived with and everything you made while you were here.

2.2  What you are granting us

You grant Hope MetaVersity a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following with the material you give us for a course:

• Host and display it on hopemetaversity.com and any platform the school operates.
• Build it into a course. Divide recordings into lessons, write lesson summaries, set a teaching order, and produce flashcards, self-check questions, printable workbooks and other study materials derived from what you taught.
• Make it usable. Caption, transcribe, compress, re-encode, and format it for different screens and for accessibility.
• Point at it. Link, excerpt, and quote the course in the school's catalogue, its site, and its own announcements.

"Non-exclusive" means you can do all of this yourself too, anywhere else, at the same time, without asking us.

2.3  Study materials we build

We often build things you did not: workbooks, flashcard decks, quizzes, lesson summaries. We own the material we write. You own the teaching it came from. Neither of us can publish the other's part without permission — except that if you leave, you may keep and use the study materials we built for your course, free, forever. You taught it; you should not lose the workbook.

2.4  Your name and likeness

You allow us to use your name, the title we give you (Professor, Dean), your photograph, and the name of your channel or show, to identify you as the teacher of your courses and in the school's own catalogue, faculty page, and announcements about your courses.

We will not use your name or likeness to endorse anything else — not a product, not a sponsor, not a political position, not another person's course.

2.5  What we are not getting

To say it plainly, because this is the part that matters:

• Not your copyright.
• Not your channel or your account. We do not get access to, control over, or any claim on your YouTube channel, your subscribers, your monetization, or your analytics.
• Not your audience. Students who find you through us are yours to keep.
• Not the right to sell your content, license it to a third party, or put it behind a paywall without your written agreement.
• Not the right to rewrite your voice. We edit for the standards in Section 4. We do not flatten you into institutional tone.
• Not exclusivity. Ever.

Section 3

What you are promising about your material

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You confirm that:

• The material is yours to give. You made it, or you have the rights to it.
• It does not infringe anyone else's copyright, trademark, or other rights.
• Anyone who appears in it, other than you, has agreed to appear — and has agreed to it being taught here, not just posted where it first appeared.
• Any third-party framework, method, or model you teach is credited by name to its author, and your course says plainly that it is your application of their work and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
• No part of it is subject to a contract, employer agreement, or confidentiality obligation that would prevent you from teaching it here.

If you are not sure about something, tell us before it publishes. That conversation is easy. The one after publication is not.

Section 4

The standards you are agreeing to teach by

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These are the school's Content Standards. They apply to every course, at every level, on every platform. Signing this means you are agreeing to them, not just acknowledging that they exist.

4.1  Truth, and proof of it

Teach what you have actually done or actually know. Claims of fact should be things you can point to. Where you are giving an opinion, a preference, or a personal method, say so rather than presenting it as established fact.

4.2  What you may never claim

• Never promise an outcome. Not income, not recovery, not a job, not a result. You may describe what happened to you and to people you have taught. You may not tell a student what will happen to them.
• Never imply a degree, license, or professional credential. The school documents what a student was taught and that they were tested on it. Nothing more. We do not grant degrees and do not confer licensure, and neither do you.
• Never present medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice as instruction. Teach your experience; do not diagnose, prescribe, dose, or direct anyone's treatment, medication, legal position, or investments.
• Never claim the school endorses something it does not — a product, an organization, a fellowship, a treatment, a person.

4.3  The accessibility floor

Courses carry captions or transcripts. Materials are readable. Nothing essential is delivered only as an image, only as audio, or only in a format a student would have to buy something to open.

4.4  How students are treated

Students are treated with respect, in public and in private. No humiliation, no shaming, no pressure, no coercion, no sexual or romantic pursuit of a student, no exploitation of a student's circumstances, no solicitation of money outside the stated cost of the course.

If a student tells you something in confidence, it is theirs, not course material.

4.5  Safety, ownership, and upkeep

Your course is yours to keep current. If something in it becomes wrong, outdated, or unsafe, tell us and we will fix or pull it. If we notice first, we will tell you.

4.6  What would cause a course to be pulled

Harm to a student, dishonesty, mistreatment, or a claim we cannot stand behind. We would rather coach than remove, and almost everything is fixable with a conversation — the Dean raises it with you privately first. Removal is where that ends up only when it has to.

Section 5

If your course is built from recordings you made elsewhere

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This section applies when a course is assembled from livestreams, podcasts, or videos you recorded for your own channel rather than for the school. It exists because material that is entirely fine on your own stream can become the school's statement when we republish it under our name.

You agree that the following are removed before publication, and you accept that we will remove them:

5.1  Allegations against identifiable people and organizations

Named companies, treatment centers, agencies, fellowships, service bodies, employers, or individuals — and any accusation of fraud, misconduct, dishonesty, or wrongdoing against them. Also: ongoing personal disputes, ethics complaints, and threats of legal action.

On your channel that is your opinion. On ours it is an institution making an accusation, and it is the single largest legal risk in this entire arrangement.

5.2  Other people's private material

Third parties' health, recovery, criminal, immigration, employment, or family circumstances. Deaths. Anonymity-protected material of any kind. Anything a viewer disclosed to you in a live chat or a private message. Family members' personal details.

This applies even where the person is not named, if they could be identified from what is said.

5.3  Clinical, medical, and financial claims

Medication guidance, detox or admission methods, treatment success rates, diagnoses, benefits or eligibility advice — stated as instruction rather than as your own experience.

5.4  Copyrighted literature — cite it, never reproduce it

Where you read from, quote at length, or work through a copyrighted text on camera, the course cites the source and describes what you do with it. It does not reproduce the passage. Your own words are quoted freely. Someone else's book is referenced only.

5.5  How this works in practice

• We do the filtering, and we log it. You are not asked to re-edit your own back catalogue.
• You see the course before it publishes. Nothing goes live under your name without your review.
• You can veto anything. If a lesson does not represent you, it comes out. No argument.
• Titles are written fresh. Original video titles are often written for a feed, not a classroom; we keep the video IDs for traceability and write new lesson headings.

Section 6

Leaving

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6.1  You can leave whenever you want

Ask, and we unpublish your pages. No penalty, no argument, no notice period, no reason required. You do not owe us an explanation and we will not ask for one.

6.2  How fast

Within seven days of your written request, and immediately where you tell us there is an urgent reason.

6.3  What happens to the license

On unpublication the license in Section 2.2 ends for all future use. We stop hosting, stop displaying, and remove the course from the catalogue, the sitemap, and the school's materials.

6.4  What we keep

Three things, and only these three:

• An internal archival copy, not published and not shared, so we have a record of what the school taught and when.
• Records of student completions — who finished what, and when. These are the students' records, not yours or ours, and they are the basis of every credential we have issued.
• Credentials already issued stay valid. A student who earned it keeps it. We will not retroactively invalidate someone's record because their professor moved on.

6.5  We can end it too

We may unpublish a course or end this agreement for the reasons in Section 4.6, or if a claim in Section 3 turns out not to hold. We tell you why, in writing, and you get the same seven days and the same archival terms.

Section 7

The unglamorous part

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• This agreement is the whole agreement. Anything either of us promised beforehand that is not written here is not binding.
• Changes require a new signature. If we revise these terms, the revision does not apply to you until you sign the new version. Your courses stay published under the version you signed.
• If one section fails, the rest holds.
• You are not our employee, and nothing here creates an employment, partnership, agency, or joint venture relationship.
• Governing law: the State of Oklahoma, United States.
• This document is not legal advice and was not drafted by an attorney. Both parties are free to have counsel review it before signing.

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