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Faculty Workload and Workload Equivalents

All full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty of the program are expected to carry a maximum workload of twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year.  Full-time non-tenure track faculty members are expected to carry a maximum workload of thirty (30) credit hours per academic year.  (See, University Policy Register 3342-6-18).  The workload for each individual faculty member is assigned by the Chair with the approval of the Dean.  The FAC shall advise the Chair on issues related to teaching assignments, class schedules and the appropriate application of workload equivalents. The Chair shall provide each faculty member with a statement of her/his workload.

In addition, the Chair may, in consultation with the FAC and with the concurrence of the Dean, assign workload equivalencies for specific duties which are considered essential to the academic mission of the Program.  The program’s expectations and specifications for such workload equivalencies is given in the table below.  The workload equivalents contained here are based on the program’s mission and are divided into five  categories: course instruction, research instruction, research productivity, administration, and other.

            Table 1. Workload Equivalents Table

 Table 1. Workload Equivalents Table.

Title / Name of Assignment

Load Equivalent (Range)

Frequency

 

Course instruction

Responsibility for a lecture or lab section or the general colloquium

1 per semester credit hour

Semester

Individual investigation such as 3 hours of Research (CPHY 80498)

Typically 1 per student supervised per semester

Semester

Significant new content or format change to an existing course

1

Semester

New course development

1-2 per semester, 4 total per course developed

Semester

 

Research instruction

Supervision of doctoral dissertations (students enrolled in “dissertation only”)

1-2 per student per semester

Semester

Supervision of a masters student

1 per student per semester

Semester

 

Research Productivity

Extramurally-sponsored research

2 per year, per $25K annual grant budget

Semester

Research activity and proposal submission

0.5 to 1 per paper, presentation, proposal, or US patent application

Semester

 

Administration

Chairperson

2-6 per semester

Semester

Director of LCI (if member of CPIP )

6 per semester

Semester

Assistant to the Chairperson

1-3 per semester

Semester

Graduate Coordinator

1-3 per semester

Semester

Graduate Recruiter

1-3 per semester

Semester

LCI Facility Director

1-3 per semester

Semester

LCI Program Assignment

1-4 per semester

Semester

LCI Other Service  Assignment

1-4 per semester

Semester

 

 

Other

New faculty (first 2 years)

1-6 per semester

Semester

Leave (health, faculty improvement, research, etc)

1-12 per semester

Semester



In the interest of maintaining a high standard of teaching and the desirability of faculty involvement in research and service activities, overload assignments are strongly discouraged.  Overload assignments (i.e. workload assignments which total more than twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year for tenured and tenure-track faculty and which total more than thirty (30) credit hours for full-time non-tenure-track faculty) will be made only in unusual circumstances.  Such assignments require the agreement of the faculty member, and the approval of the Chair and the Dean.