Common use of Office Hour Obligation Clause in Contracts

Office Hour Obligation. The office hour obligation for instructional faculty, whose teaching assignment has been reduced due to a reduced load contract, will be reduced by the same proportion as the amount of reduction in load. The proration for this special assignment will be based on assigned instructional LHE instead of assigned contact hours as stated below. For the purpose of simplifying the computation of the office hour obligation of an instructor with reduction in load, the twenty (20) hour assignment will be treated as fifteen

Office Hour Obligation. The office hour obligation for instructional faculty, whose teaching assignment has been reduced due to a reduced load contract, will shall be reduced by the same proportion as the amount of reduction in load. The proration for this special assignment will be based on assigned instructional LHE instead of assigned contact hours as stated below. For the purpose of simplifying the computation of the office hour obligation of an instructor with reduction in load, the twenty (20) hour assignment will shall be treated as fifteenfifteen (15) LHE and five (5) office hours. Example: An instructor with a fifty percent (50%) reduced load, and therefore a minimum of seven and one-half (7.5) LHE instructional assignments has a two and one-half (2.5) hour office hour requirement computed as (7.5/15) x 5 = 0.5 x 5 = 2.5 office hours.