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Department of Broadcasting and Cinema Workload Policy

(Revision adopted 20 April 2004)

1. Faculty members negotiate work assignments with the Department Head.
2. Workloads for tenured or tenure track faculty who are engaged in scholarship or creative activity under the provisions of the Department’s Performance Review and Salary Increase Policy are based on the assumption that they can be assigned to teach a maximum of nine credit hours a semester, regardless of rank
3. Nontenure track faculty can be assigned up to twelve credit hours of teaching per semester.
4. All tenure track faculty are routinely expected to advise students (if needed), serve on Departmental committees, and--when the opportunity arises--College and University committees. All tenure-track faculty are expected to be actively involved in the professional life of their discipline, which can include attending and participating in local, regional, and national conferences and meetings; and have a clearly articulated research and/or creative plan to enhance their career development.
5. Nontenure track faculty are not routinely expected to advise students nor serve on Departmental, College, or University committees unless the advising and/or committee assignment is integral to their position. Nontenure track faculty are expected to remain current in their specializations, which may include attending and participating in local, regional, and national conferences and meetings.
6. Faculty can request a reduction in their in-class teaching assignments (as specified in 2-3 above) for the following activities, when they exceed expectations for faculty:
   1. Uncredited Teaching Related Activity: Supervision of a sizeable number of independent course registrations; significant redesign of existing curriculum; design of new curriculum, including online courses; preparation and implementation of new courses; etc.
   2. Research and/or Creative Activity: Faculty involved in researching and writing for publication and faculty engaged in creative activity (i.e., producing, shooting, editing, screenwriting, etc.).
   3. Administration: Faculty holding major, unpaid administrative appointments with state, regional, or national associations; or providing extraordinary administrative service to the Department, College, or University.
7. Based on the availability of funding, new tenure track appointments are granted one three-hour course reduction to support scholarship or creative work in each of the first two years of appointment.
8. Faculty, in consultation with the Department Head, may assume a voluntary class overload. Overloads can be banked and used to reduce a faculty member's teaching assignment and provide release time for research and creative projects in a subsequent semester. Overload time can be used up to three semesters after it has been earned. Faculty can "cash in" up to two, three-hour overloads, or combine a single three-hour overload with traditional release time (as described in #6 above) to create up to six hours of release time in any semester.

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