FACULTY PRIMARY TEACHING LOAD AND OTHER PRIMARY DUTIES
Effective: August 15, 2024
Purpose: To outline the standards of expectation for teaching and other duties of University faculty.
Scope: This policy applies to all University faculty campus wide.
Responsible Office: Academic Affairs
Policy Statement: The standard teaching load for full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members in all colleges and schools of Emporia State University is twelve (12) undergraduate credit hours or its equivalent per semester. For undergraduate courses, each credit hour has a teaching load value of .083, therefore twelve (12) undergraduate credit hours times .083 represents 1.0 load. For graduate courses, the value is .111, thus nine (9) graduate credit hours times .111 represents 1.0 load. A faculty member’s load for teaching and other primary duties should normally be averaged over one academic year.
A faculty member’s load for teaching duties may be adjusted as determined collectively by the faculty member’s academic unit in accordance with approved applicable written policies of the academic unit and/or University. These adjustments to load for specific teaching or student supervisory activities may include but are not limited to supervision of graduate student research, team taught courses, independent study courses, time-intensive or laboratory courses, and supervision of practicums, internships, and student teachers.
Faculty members may receive reassigned time for other primary duties that may include but are not limited to administrative duties, advising duties, research or creative activities, service activities, and directorships. The supervising administrator of the academic unit, with approval of the respective dean, will determine reassigned time to individual faculty members.
Non-tenure-track faculty (lecturers, adjuncts, etc.) will be assigned loads for teaching and other primary duties as determined by the academic unit’s supervising administrator.
Definitions: All words and phrases shall be interpreted utilizing their plain meanings unless otherwise defined in another University or Board of Regents policy or by statute or regulation.
Procedures: All procedures linked and related to the policies above shall have the full force and effect of policy if said procedures have first been properly approved by the University’s administrator in charge of Academic Affairs.
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