Basic Teaching Load. As noted in Article V, A, 1, faculty work includes four categories of responsibilities: 1) Teaching & Learning, 2) Professional Development, 3) Service to the College and/or the Community, and 4) Curriculum and Classroom Management. This section (B) speaks specifically to the teaching and learning aspect. There are three options for calculating an instructor’s full-time teaching load:
Basic Teaching Load. 12.2.1.1 Full-time unit members whose primary responsibility is teaching are obligated over the Academic Year to carry a teaching load of twenty-four (24) credit hours, normally divided into two semesters of twelve (12) hours each. Faculty members assigned to teach graduate courses shall receive 1.33 credit hours of teaching load for each credit hour of a graduate course. Prior to the scheduling of classes and in consultation with the Chairperson, a faculty member may request in writing that the teaching load be distributed among both day and evening classes and/or a combination of underload in one semester and overload in another. Such requests shall not interfere with the normal academic offerings and shall have the prior approval of the Chairperson and the Xxxxxxx/Vice President. In unforeseen circumstances, the faculty members may be required to accept an other-than-normal distribution of the twenty-four (24) hour obligation; in such cases, redistribution of the teaching load shall be made after consultation with the affected faculty member. No unit member may be required to teach a lecture-based course at more than one non-Dover location per semester.
Basic Teaching Load a. Class load/non-teaching assignments shall be processed by the department chairperson and xxxx. Every effort will be made to develop instructors' class loads/non-teaching assignments on the basis of consensus of the full-time members of the department. In the event consensus fails, seniority will be used as major considerations in the selection of classes/non-teaching assignments.
