批准8/10/92
The following guidelines should direct Department Chairs and Deans in assigning faculty load. Additional approved guidelines, specific to departments and colleges, may apply. Teaching assignments must be discussed with faculty prior to their scheduling.
全职负载:
正常的全职, undergraduate and graduate teaching load for faculty is eleven to thirteen credit hours per semester. 然而, a variety of circumstances may result in loads outside this range.
委员会的任务:
参与部门, 学校, and institutional committees; involvement with faculty and student organizations and their activities; and student advising are expectations of full-time faculty. 特别或特别委员会发布时间, 组织, or advising obligations must be assigned by 院长 with approval of the SVCAA. Non-tenure跟踪, 没有重要委员会的全职教员, 组织, or advising obligations may have teaching loads greater than eleven to thirteen hours.
独立研究和论文指导:
教师 assigned thirty student credit hours or more of independent studies in a given semester will have their load reduced by three semester hours in that semester.
教师 may accrue student credit hours of independent studies and thesis advising assignments. Student credit hours for thesis advising will be doubled for purposes of faculty load, i.e., six student credit hours of thesis will add twelve student credit hours to faculty accruals of independent studies and thesis advising assignments. 教师 accruing thirty-six student credit hours of independent studies and thesis advising assignment will have their load reduced by three semester hours in a subsequent semester.
实验课程:
实验室联系时间通常占授课联系时间的一半. 具体批准的学院和部门的指导方针可能适用.
研究及公共服务:
Released time for research and public service will be recommended to the SVCAA by the Research Services Council or other internal and external funding sources, The SVCAA will approve such assignments and reimbursements to the colleges for faculty released time, The SVCAA will also approve direct payment from the RSC and other internal or external funding sources administered by the University to faculty for research and public service to be performed outside the teaching load, e.g., research or service during a summer when the faculty member is not fully assigned to teaching,
依赖大学资源, the deans may assign released time for research or public service to faculty who apply with the recommendation of their departments and/or department chairs.
有或预期有bet36365体育投注教学义务的教员.e., 那些已经或必须成为bet36365体育投注教员或研究员的人, 在分配研究时间时是否应该特别考虑. 然而, faculty applicants proposing research which is directly related to the enhancement of the instructional programs and to the professional development of faculty should be considered for assigned released time.
Assignments by the deans of released time for research and service must be reported by the deans to the office of the SVCAA.
Assigned research and public service for individual faculty must be specifically addressed by department chairs and peer reviewers in the Annual Review of 教师 Performance.
课程准备:
课程准备的数量, 特别是新课程的开发, 可能是负载分配的一个因素. Released time for course preparations and/or development will be recommended to the SVCAA by the chair and the dean.
学生负载:
教师教学非常少, 而是编程上必需的类, 可以教超过13个小时吗, provided their total student load is still significantly less than the total load would be with normally sized classes. 教师 teaching excessively large classes may teach fewer than eleven hours as long as the total student load still exceeds the normal total student load for eleven to thirteen hours in those classes.
平均:
In areas where it is difficult to assign eleven to thirteen hours each semester, faculty may be assigned to teach more hours one semester and fewer another to achieve an average within the range.
需要经批准的特定指引的调整:
非信贷实验室, 工作室, and-clinical instruction; external supervision of internships and student teachers; private lessons and supervision of performance, 工作室 and media productions; and coaching assignments all require SVCAA-approved specific guidelines. 在特殊情况下, where particular courses make especially rigorous demands in class preparation, 个别学生联络, 或评估学生的写作和其他项目, SVCAA-approved specific guidelines may value courses at more than the actual credit hours. In instances where preparation and evaluation demands are minimal or supported by assistants or technological components, SVCAA-approved specific guidelines may value courses at less than the actual credit hours.
系主任负荷:
Department Chairs will be released from three to six hours each semester based on the size of the department and the complexity of its programs and services. Such released time will be determined by 院长 and approved by the SVCAA. 部门内的其他协调活动，如.g., 协调bet36365体育投注项目或bet36365体育投注助教, 也可以在SVCAA的批准下由院长分配释放时间.
夏季负荷:
夏季负荷将由主席分配, 院长, and the SVCAA and specified in letters of appointment consistent with the collective bargaining agreements,
过载:
超载将由主席分配, 院长, and the SVCAA and specified in letters of appointment consistent with the collective bargaining agreements.
本政策的例外情况:
兼职教师作业, 兼职教师, bet36365体育投注助理有不同的政策.
实现:
Accruals of independent studies and other activities that result in released time will begin with the Fall Semester of 1992.
参见:
