Annual Contract Workload. 5.2.1.1 The regular contract workload for full-time instructors shall be thirty (30) Lecture Hour Equivalents (LHE) per academic year, exclusive of intersessions, with teaching units equated as follows: 5.2.1.1.1 One (1) lecture teaching unit is equated as one (1) LHE and is comprised of eighteen (18) hours of lecture instructional activity. 5.2.1.1.2 One (1) laboratory teaching unit is equated as three-fourths (3/4) LHE and is comprised of eighteen (18) hours of laboratory instructional activity. 5.2.1.1.3 One (1) hour shall comprise fifty (50) minutes of instructional activity. 5.2.1.2 Classes offered during the 16-week primary terms, summer intersessions, winter intersessions, and other short-term classes shall be scheduled in a manner such that, subject to regulatory requirements, the total number of student contact hour is as close as possible to, but normally not less than, the number of student contract hours, including final examinations, for a traditional 18-week semester. 5.2.1.3 Variations in the normal teaching load may occur to provide for research and innovation by mutual written agreement.
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