Common use of Teaching Workload Clause in Contracts

Teaching Workload. The underlying principles for establishing teaching load are to meet the needs of students and program requirements effectively and efficiently, and to provide a supportive teaching/learning environment. Since teaching methods vary among disciplines, each department and college is best able to assess the efforts required in teaching in its discipline(s). 9.2.1 The parties agree to continue stable teaching load practices for faculty that maintain the historic departmental levels of teaching or librarianship constituting one FTE workload in each college. Deans will continue to have discretion over allocating resources across departments within the college. The current collaboration between the xxxx and the department chairs will continue. Department chairs shall continue to have the flexibility to make changes in individual workload among faculty members due to programmatic, curricular and student needs. 9.2.2 Class size is a component of the historic departmental level of teaching as defined in section 9.2. 1. A xxxx may suggest an examination of class size options. A faculty member may propose to redesign a course in a way that results in a change in the historic class size. Any proposal to make adjustments to class size must be pedagogically sound, maintain quality, meet the needs of students, and be feasible within the resources of the unit/college concerned. The proposal must be approved by the department and the xxxx. 9.2.3 The xxxx of the college will determine, in consultation with the chairs, the courses and sections to be offered and the allocation of faculty teaching workload across faculty in the department, within the resources available. 9.2.4 In collaboration with the xxxx, each department shall develop a policy to determine the distribution of the departmental teaching load among its members. In determining the teaching workload of faculty members, departments will develop measures for the effort involved in teaching courses of different types and sizes and with different meeting schedules, and measures for the effort involved in other tasks (such as labs, studio classes, supervision of student projects, theses or performances, and the coordination of group activities or multiple sections). The same criteria shall apply to all faculty members in the department. The departmental policies must be approved by the xxxx and the Xxxxxxx. 9.2.5 With approval of the xxxx and Xxxxxxx, tenure-track and tenured faculty may be permitted to buy out teaching workload (e.g. through grant-funded activities), provided that the overall teaching, scholarship, and service needs of the unit, as determined by departmental policy, and approved by the xxxx, can otherwise be met. 9.2.6 The teaching assignments of the current tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the department shall be determined by May of the previous academic year. 9.2.7 The department chair shall be responsible for implementing departmental policy for the distribution of teaching load according to faculty qualifications and the curricular needs of the department and the University.

Teaching Workload. The underlying principles for establishing teaching load are to meet the needs of students and program requirements effectively and efficiently, and to provide a supportive teaching/learning environment. Since teaching methods vary among disciplines, each department and college is best able to assess the efforts required in teaching in its discipline(s). 9.2.1 The parties agree to continue stable teaching load practices for faculty that maintain the historic departmental levels of teaching or librarianship constituting one FTE workload in each college. Deans Xxxxx will continue to have discretion over allocating resources across departments within the college. The current collaboration between the xxxx and the department chairs will continue. Department chairs shall continue to have the flexibility to make changes in individual workload among faculty members due to programmatic, curricular and student needs. 9.2.2 Class size is a component of the historic departmental level of teaching as defined in section 9.2. 1. A xxxx may suggest an examination of class size options. A faculty member may propose to redesign a course in a way that results in a change in the historic class size. Any proposal to make adjustments to class size must be pedagogically sound, maintain quality, meet the needs of students, and be feasible within the resources of the unit/college concerned. The proposal must be approved by the department and the xxxx. 9.2.3 The xxxx of the college will determine, in consultation with the chairs, the courses and sections to be offered and the allocation of faculty teaching workload across faculty in the department, within the resources available. 9.2.4 In collaboration with the xxxx, each department shall develop a policy to determine the distribution of the departmental teaching load among its members. In determining the teaching workload of faculty members, departments will develop measures for the effort involved in teaching courses of different types and sizes and with different meeting schedules, and measures for the effort involved in other tasks (such as labs, studio classes, supervision of student projects, theses or performances, and the coordination of group activities or multiple sections). The same criteria shall apply to all faculty members in the department. The departmental policies must be approved by the xxxx and the Xxxxxxx. 9.2.5 With approval of the xxxx and Xxxxxxx, tenure-track and tenured faculty may be permitted to buy out teaching workload (e.g. through grant-funded activities), provided that the overall teaching, scholarship, and service needs of the unit, as determined by departmental policy, and approved by the xxxx, can otherwise be met. 9.2.6 The teaching assignments of the current tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the department shall be determined by May of the previous academic year. 9.2.7 The department chair shall be responsible for implementing departmental policy for the distribution of teaching load according to faculty qualifications and the curricular needs of the department and the University.