Assignment of Teaching Faculty Workload Sample Clauses
The "Assignment of Teaching Faculty Workload" clause defines how teaching responsibilities are distributed among faculty members. It typically outlines the criteria or process for assigning courses, class sections, or other instructional duties, and may specify factors such as faculty rank, area of expertise, or departmental needs. This clause ensures a fair and transparent allocation of teaching duties, helping to balance workloads and prevent disputes over assignments.
Assignment of Teaching Faculty Workload. (a) The duty year for Teaching Faculty shall consist of the following:
(i) one hundred and ninety (190) days duty time;
(ii) twenty (20) days approved professional development time;
(iii) forty (40) consecutive days annual vacation.
(b) Department heads are responsible to the deans for managing department resources, including scheduling course offerings to be responsive to student needs. Subject to approval by the ▇▇▇▇, the instructional load of faculty will be assigned by the department head in consultation with the department, which will normally include a duly constituted department meeting. Processes used must ensure equity, transparency and fairness in the allocation of workload. Factors to be taken into account shall include but are not limited to the following:
(i) The number of different course preparations
(ii) The number of new courses
(iii) The number of new preparations
(iv) Class sizes and anticipated enrolments
(v) Pedagogy
(vi) The number and types of assignments to be marked
(vii) The qualifications and expertise of the faculty member in specific areas
(viii) The number of Masters or Honours theses supervised
(ix) Program needs
(x) Extraordinary service work for the Department or the University
(xi) Re-assignment of workload granted for research or scholarly activity
(c) To support their scholarly activity, within any two year period, Type B teaching faculty may apply to have up to the equivalent of 25% of their annual workload (2 courses) reassigned to scholarship directly related to the faculty member's area of expertise, scholarship being broadly defined. These requests for reassigned work or equivalent funding will take the form of “research options” or “scholarly activity options.” Such reassignment of workload shall be made by recommendation of the Department to the ▇▇▇▇, and with the approval of the ▇▇▇▇, and further adjudication by the appropriate committee on scholarship, which shall post in advance the general criteria for granting such options. This reassignment of workload would be factored into the assignment of teaching workloads as outlined in 18.3(b).
(d) Upon the recommendation of the departments, and with the approval of the appropriate ▇▇▇▇, instructors preparing and teaching courses new to the UFV curriculum or supervising graduating projects in degree-completion programs will have up to one course reassigned to these tasks. This reassignment of workload would be factored into the assignment of teaching workloads as outl...