Common use of Staffing Levels for Undergraduate Academic Offerings Clause in Contracts

Staffing Levels for Undergraduate Academic Offerings. All undergraduate academic offerings (programs, courses, individual learning, etc., all of which are collectively referred to as “programs” below) will be planned at a targeted student/faculty ratio of 25:1, in which a full-time load is the equivalent of one (1) faculty member per twenty-five (25) students, each of whom is registered for sixteen (16) credits per quarter (equivalent to four hundred (400) student credit hours per quarter). Part-time teaching loads are prorated. Undergraduate academic offerings may be planned at a lower student/faculty level as follows: 7.3.1. A targeted student/faculty ratio of 23:1 (equivalent to three hundred and sixty- eight (368) student credit hours per quarter) will be allowed for programs that provide all available seats to first-year students (“core” programs) or fifty percent (50%) each to first- year and second-year students (“lower-division” programs), and are team taught. 7.3.2. Study abroad programs may plan the travel component of the program with a student/faculty ratio as low as, but not fewer than, 15:1. 7.3.3. Academic offerings may, with the concurrence of the curriculum xxxx(s), be planned at a targeted student/faculty ratio of less than 25:1 in which there are facility constraints (e.g., lab or studio space) or where the program is targeted at an under-represented student population. In such cases, the faculty member may be asked to take on additional students as provided in Section 7.4. 7.3.4. With prior approval of the curriculum xxxx(s), faculty members teaching in the Olympia day program may plan variable load programs over three (3) quarters in an academic year that cumulatively meet the annualized targeted student credit-hour load defined above.

Staffing Levels for Undergraduate Academic Offerings. All undergraduate academic offerings (programs, courses, individual learning, etc., all of which are collectively referred to as “programs” below) will be planned at a targeted student/faculty ratio of 25:1, in which a full-time load is the equivalent of one (1) faculty member per twenty-five (25) students, each of whom is registered for sixteen (16) credits per quarter (equivalent to four hundred (400) student credit hours per quarter). Part-time teaching loads are prorated. Undergraduate academic offerings may be planned at a lower student/faculty level as follows: 7.3.1. 7.3.1 A targeted student/faculty ratio of 23:1 (equivalent to three hundred and sixty- eight (368) student credit hours per quarter) will be allowed for programs that provide all available seats to first-year students (“core” programs) or fifty percent (50%) each to first- year and second-year students (“lower-division” programs), and are team taught. 7.3.2. 7.3.2 Study abroad programs may plan the travel component of the program with a student/faculty ratio as low as, but not fewer than, 15:1. 7.3.3. 7.3.3 Academic offerings may, with the concurrence of the curriculum xxxx(s), be planned at a targeted student/faculty ratio of less than 25:1 in which there are facility constraints (e.g., lab or studio space) or where the program is targeted at an under-represented student population. In such cases, the faculty member may be asked to take on additional students as provided in Section 7.4. 7.3.4. 7.3.4 With prior approval of the curriculum xxxx(s), faculty members teaching in the Olympia day program may plan variable load programs over three (3) quarters in an academic year that cumulatively meet the annualized targeted student credit-hour load defined above.