Regular Academic Year Workload Clause Samples
The Regular Academic Year Workload clause defines the standard teaching, research, and service responsibilities assigned to faculty members during the main academic year. Typically, this clause outlines the expected number of courses to be taught, office hours to be maintained, and participation in departmental or university committees from the start of the fall semester through the end of the spring semester. Its core function is to establish clear expectations for faculty duties, ensuring consistency and fairness in workload distribution across the institution.
Regular Academic Year Workload. A. There is currently in effect a University policy on workload that was passed by the Faculty Senate and approved by the Board of Trustees in 1971 and revised in 1979. That policy, which is recorded in the University Policy Register at 3342-6-18, and incorporated herein as Addendum D, shall remain the University policy on Faculty workload during the term of this contract unless and until said policy is modified as a result of and in accordance with specific recommendations passed by the Faculty elected representatives of the Faculty Senate and approved by the Board of Trustees.
B. Workload expectations and specification of workload equivalents of classroom instructional assignments are incorporated in each academic unit’s or campus’ section of the Faculty Handbook. Modification or revision of the basic workload statements and of the specification and/or application of the course load equivalents requires the approval of the full Faculty of the academic unit or campus. Revisions of a unit's workload expectations also require approval by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ as well as by the responsible ▇▇▇▇; revisions in the specification or application of course load equivalents also require approval by the ▇▇▇▇ as well as by the Department Chair.
C. For each term of the regular academic year, each member of the Faculty shall receive a statement of his/her workload from his/her academic unit administrator or campus ▇▇▇▇. This statement shall include the number of credit/workload hours to be devoted to instructional assignments and the number of hours within the unit's workload equivalencies to be devoted to the discharge of responsibilities in the areas of research, special service and advising activities significantly above the level expected of all Faculty members in the academic unit or regional campus, services of an administrative nature, and such other applicable workload equivalents as may be specified in the unit's or campus’ section of the Faculty Handbook. Faculty areas of expertise and programmatic need are among the factors taken into consideration in the assignment of instructional workload. Normally, this individual workload statement should be provided to the Faculty member no later than thirty (30) days prior to the end of the academic semester preceding the semester for which the workload is assigned. If a Faculty member’s instructional assignments and/or workload equivalencies change after the initial workload statement has been issued, the Faculty member will r...
Regular Academic Year Workload. A. FTNTT Faculty members will be assigned full-time instructional and/or other responsibilities specific to the track of the assignment, as defined in Article X, Section
Regular Academic Year Workload. A. FTNTT Faculty members will be assigned full-time instructional and/or other responsibilities specific to the track of the assignment, as defined in Article X, Section 2.B.2. of this Agreement for the academic year in accord with the University policy regarding faculty teaching load which was adopted by the Board of Trustees in 1971 and revised in 1979 and which is incorporated in the University Policy Register at 3342-6-18. FTNTT Faculty members will be assigned instructional and/or other responsibilities as specified in their letters of appointment. Assigned full-time workload for all FTNTT Faculty members shall total fifteen (15) credit hours per semester or thirty (30) credit hours for the academic year. The Board of Trustees expressly reserves to itself the sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any modification of the above referenced policy.