Underload/Overload. 1. An underload occurs when a full-time faculty member’s teaching workload is less than eighteen (18) or in the case of Lecturers, twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year. If an underload occurs, it shall be made up during the following summer, fall or spring semester. If reasonable work is assigned and the underload is not made up as stipulated above, the faculty member’s salary shall be reduced, by the current overload rate, to reflect the underload. No faculty member shall be required to make up an underload during the summer. Faculty members required to make up underloads shall make up such underloads in a department or departments within the School or in any program of the University where there are courses available which the faculty member is qualified to teach or where appropriate substitute duties are available. Underloaded full-time tenure-track faculty members shall be given priority for courses that they are qualified to teach over faculty members who are overloaded and/or non-tenure track faculty or adjuncts. Under no circumstances may otherwise qualified tenured and tenure-track faculty be involuntarily underloaded by full-time non-tenure track faculty or adjunct faculty. An overload occurs when, subject to the approval of the Xxxxxxx, and with the consent of the full-time faculty member, a full-time faculty member’s workload is more than eighteen (18) teaching credit hours during the academic year.
