Department of Dance
Appendix 4: Guidelines For Assigning Faculty Workloads
Guidelines for Assigning Faculty Workloads
School of Health and Human Performance
University of North Carolina- Greensboro (2002)
http://provost.uncg.edu/documents/personnel/FacultyWorkloadGuidelines.pdf
Determining the workload for a specific faculty member requires consideration
of a complex variety of variables related to the department’s goals
and expectations for instruction, research/creative expression, service/outreach,
and directed professional activity. In most cases, counting semester hours
alone fails to reflect the totality of a faculty member's effort, and
is therefore insufficient for the purposes of developing or comparing
workload assignments. Within and across departments, schools, and the
College, individual workload assignments must allow for both flexibility and maintenance of
UNCG’s commitment to instructional productivity and academic excellence.
The resulting assignments, however, must convey recognition of the Faculty
Workload Guidelines stated for UNCG (see below) and adherence to the faculty
workload expectations of the UNC Board of Governors and UNC Office of
the President.
The following guidelines are stated with regard to the determination of
faculty workloads at UNCG:
1. Department heads make assignments and adjustments to assignments, based
upon:
a) an overall expectation of the department’s instructional productivity, negotiated annually with the dean;
b) consideration of the guidelines for individual teaching assignments (items 2-4 below);
c) consideration of the differential weightings of teaching,
research, graduate
supervision, and service activities assigned to and/or being assumed by
a faculty member in a given year.
2. In departments that do not offer the doctoral degree, 18 semester hours
for each tenured/tenure-track faculty member are normally assigned to teaching;
in departments that offer the doctoral degree, 15 semester hours are normally
assigned to teaching and 3 hours to dissertation supervision. (These assignments
are based upon the expectation of 24 semester hours per academic year,
6 hours of which are assigned to research/creative activity, for all tenured/tenure-track
faculty.) Modifications to a faculty member's assigned hours for teaching
may be made on the basis of considerations listed in item #1 above, and
also in consideration of alternative assignments beyond those routinely
expected of all faculty members in the department. Alternative assignments
may include academic administration, unique service commitments, or other
special assignments. Service on Department, College/School and University-wide/Faculty
Senate Committees is not an alternative assignment but is expected as
part of the normal responsibilities of a faculty member. In addition,
hours assigned for teaching may increase or decrease in consideration
of the type of courses taught and/or number of student credit hours generated.
3. Assignments other than teaching will be reviewed and agreed to by the
department head and dean.
4. The standard teaching load for full-time lecturers and other non-tenure
track faculty is 24 semester hours per year (12 hours per semester). This
teaching load may vary in certain cases (see item 2 above).
5. Faculty members will receive their assigned annual workload in writing,
using the Faculty Assignment Form (which may be modified to meet department- or unit-specific
needs). Adjustments to a workload assignment may be necessary depending on course
enrollments and/or program needs.
6. A record of a faculty member's assigned workload is to be included
as part of the documentation for annual reviews, as well as for reappointment, promotion,
tenure, and post-tenure reviews.
*In the case of non-departmentalized academic units, the word "division"
may be substituted for the word "department" throughout this
document. In addition, for non-departmentalized units, the dean assumes
the role of the department head. Finally, the term "department head"
is used generically to identify the administrative supervisor of an academic
department or division, and is therefore synonymous with "department
chair."