COLA Faculty Work Load Policy
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The Handbook of Operating Procedures and Regents rules mandate nine semester credit hours of instruction in organized classes each long semester with adjustments permitted for teaching equivalencies. The College interprets this mandate as the equivalent of a 3-3 teaching load.
RESEARCH-INTENSIVE FACULTY
- All tenured and tenure track faculty are expected to be research intensive faculty, meaning that they have an active research agenda resulting in scholarly activities such as the preparation and presentation of conference papers, public and academic presentations and talks, the publication of reviews, articles, chapters, essays, edited pieces and collections, and book manuscripts. To accommodate these activities, in practice faculty generally carry a 2-2 teaching load.
TEACHING-INTENSIVE FACULTY
- In cases where a faculty member demonstrates a sustained lack of scholarly productivity the chair must assign that individual to a teaching-intensive (rather than researchintensive) instructional load consistent with the HOP and Regents Rules. In some cases,and with approval of the dean, extra service may be given in lieu of a teaching-intensive instructional load.
- Only in exceptional cases and with the dean’s approval will tenure-track faculty in their probationary period be placed on a teaching-intensive instructional load.
- Departmental procedures must state clear criteria for moving faculty from a researchintensive instructional load to a teaching-intensive instructional load. In addition, criteria must also be delineated for returning faculty to a research-intensive instructional load. Chairs must make available these criteria to all faculty members.
SERVICE-INTENSIVE FACULTY
- In certain cases, faculty members who perform extra service duties to advance the mission of the institution may experience a diminishment of their research productivity. In these cases, and with the approval of the dean, a faculty member’s service responsibilities will be seen as contributing to their overall productivity and evaluated as such.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY
- Departments are required to annually review research productivity of faculty. Reviews can be linked to annual merit reviews, tenure, promotion, post-tenure reviews, or other approved procedures.
- Salary increases are merit based, keyed to scholarly activity with an attendant expectation of appropriate teaching and service activities and provision for salary awards for heavy service and distinguished teaching.
- Faculty on a teaching-intensive instructional load may, on the recommendation of the chair and approval of the dean, receive salary increases keyed to their teaching performance.
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Last Modified: 10 August 2011
