Operational Procedures for Instructional Workload. 1. The following procedures apply to the development of all instructional workload assignments:
a. Based upon teaching demands placed on the department or school by the curriculum, the department chairperson/school director, after consultation with the faculty, will identify the total instructional workload requirements to be met on a semester basis.
b. The Department Chairperson or School Director, after consultation with the faculty, will specify the instructional workload resources available to the department/school on a semester basis (considering the total faculty workload of the department/school), which will be used to build the schedule of classes.
c. Based upon the planned professional objectives and activities of the faculty member and the objectives of the department or school, the Department Chairperson/School Director and the faculty member will determine the faculty member's instructional workload.
2. Operational procedures for assigning individual instructional workloads are as follows:
a. The department/school faculty and Chairperson/Director will collectively determine, with the approval of the Xxxx, the extent to which credit hour guidelines, contact hour guidelines, or some mixture of both will be applied to the course offerings of the department.
b. Assignment of instructional workload responsibilities involving exclusively undergraduate courses or less than six (6) credit (or nine [9] contact) hours of graduate teaching (normally courses numbered 700 level courses are normally considered to be graduate courses except when undergraduate enrollment exceeds graduate enrollment – see XIX A.4.l above for exceptions) per academic year shall be as follows:
(1) for those faculty teaching exclusively credit hour courses, the instructional workload shall not exceed twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year;
(2) for those faculty teaching exclusively contact hour courses, the instructional workload shall not exceed forty (40) contact hours per academic year; and
(3) for those faculty teaching a mixture of credit and contact hour courses, the instructional workload shall not exceed thirty-six (36) converted hours14 per academic year.
c. Assignments of instructional workload responsibilities involving at least six (6) credit hours (or nine (9) contact hours) of graduate 14 Converted hours equals contact hours taught plus 1.5 times the number of credit hours taught. For example, if a faculty member taught two three-credit hour courses and two ...
Operational Procedures for Instructional Workload. 1. The following procedures apply to the development of all instructional workload assignments:
a. Based upon teaching demands placed on the department or school by the curriculum, the department chairperson/school director, after consultation with the faculty, will identify the total instructional workload requirements to be met on a semester basis.
b. The Department Chairperson or School Director, after consultation with the faculty, will specify the instructional workload resources available to the department/school on a semester basis (considering the total faculty workload of the department/school), which will be used to build the schedule of classes.
c. Based upon the planned professional objectives and activities of the faculty member and the objectives of the department or school, the Department Chairperson/School Director and the faculty member will determine the faculty member's instructional workload.
2. Operational procedures for assigning individual instructional workloads are as follows:
a. The department/school faculty and Chairperson/Director will collectively determine, with the approval of the Xxxx, the extent to which credit hour guidelines, contact hour guidelines, or some mixture of both will be applied to the course offerings of the department.
b. Assignment of instructional workload responsibilities involving exclusively undergraduate courses or less than six (6) credit (or nine [9] contact) hours of graduate teaching (normally courses numbered 700 level courses are normally considered to be graduate courses except when undergraduate enrollment exceeds graduate enrollment – see XIX
