Faculty Workload and Workload Equivalents
All full-time tenured and tenure-track Faculty of the department are expected to carry a maximum workload of twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year. Full-time non-tenure track (NTT) faculty members are expected to carry a maximum workload of thirty (30) credit hours per academic year. (See, UPR 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.
The Chair or relevant unit administrator 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 Department. The department’s expectations and specifications for workload equivalencies are given in Table 1. Where a range of hours is specified for an equivalency, the Chair shall determine the appropriate assignment. See Section III.B. for detailed descriptions of Departmental Administrative and Service positions.
Table 1. Workload Equivalents Table
Course Instruction
|
Assignment |
Load Equivalent |
Frequency |
Brief Description of Assignment |
|
Lecture/Recitation |
1 per credit hour |
Semester |
Responsibility for a lecture or recitation section; or colloquium/seminar |
|
Lower Division Laboratory Instruction |
1 - 3 |
Semester |
Responsibility for a lower division laboratory |
|
Advanced Laboratory Instruction |
3 |
Semester |
Responsibility for the advanced laboratory courses 30020 and/or 4/50020. |
|
Individual Investigation |
1 |
Semester |
Supervision of Individual Investigation, Honors Thesis, Special Projects, etc. |
|
Coordination of multi-section course |
1 |
Semester |
Coordination of multi-section course |
|
New Preparation |
1 |
Semester |
New course preparation. (In addition to the usual credit hr load.)
|
|
New Course Development |
1 |
Semester |
Development of a new course. (In addition to the usual credit hr load.) |
|
Multiple Large Sections |
1-2 |
Semester |
Multiple large (>75) sections |
Research
|
Assignment |
Load Equivalent (Range) |
Frequency |
Brief Description of Assignment |
|
Sponsored Research |
1-5 |
Semester |
1-3 per grant[1] per semester. Amount subject to approval of Chair at time of grant proposal submission. Limit is 5 load hours per semester. |
|
Supervision of doctoral dissertations or masters theses |
1-5 |
Semester |
1-5 per semester; not to exceed 2 per student per semester |
|
Research Activity/ Proposal submission |
up to 3 |
Semester |
Research activity and/or extramural proposal preparation and submission |
[1] To obtain 3 hrs load equivalency the grant should constitute substantial external research project support by providing many of the characteristics defined in footnote reference to Table 2 (evaluation of scholarship for RTP). Internal grants are normally 1 load hour per semester.
The research workload will not reduce a Faculty member’s course instruction workload below six (6) load hours per year except under unusual circumstances. Any exceptions must be approved by the Chair and the Dean.
Administration
Position descriptions may be found in Section III.B.
|
Title / Name of Assignment |
Load Equivalent (Range) |
Frequency |
|
Assistant to Chair |
1-3 |
Semester |
|
Graduate Coordinator |
1-3 |
Semester |
|
Undergraduate Coordinator |
1-3 |
Semester |
|
Planetarium Director |
1-3 |
Semester |
|
Director of the Center for Nuclear Research |
1-2 |
Semester |
|
Chair of Colloquium Committee |
0-2 |
Semester |
|
Departmental Web Managers |
0-2 |
Semester |
|
Other Administrative Assignments (see Section III.B.10) |
As determined by Chair |
Semester |
|
CAC Representative |
0-3 |
Year |
|
Undergraduate Major Advisor |
1-2 |
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 that total more than twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year for tenured and tenure-track Faculty and that 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.