Section 21.01 Faculty Load

As professional educators, the faculty of North Central State College are committed to providing learner-centered opportunities and institutional support to allow North Central State College students to make the most of their abilities and resources in order to meet their educational, career and life goals.

As professional educators, faculty perform a variety of activities in a pattern that differs from day to day, week to week, and quarter to quarter. Faculty endeavor to provide opportunities and support for students to learn through their commitment to excellent facilitation of learning; student, institutional and community service; and their own professional development.

To meet this commitment the following load is assigned to faculty at North Central State College.

The on-campus/off-campus faculty workload is expected to reflect a 40 hour work week that includes the following:

• 15 credit or 18 contact hours of direct facilitation of learning
• 18 to 21 hours of classroom support* and institutional support** with active faculty participation in each support area.
• 4 office hours

*Classroom support includes any activities used to facilitate learning in assigned courses, which may include, but is not limited to:

• Preparing lectures
• Reviewing lectures
• Grading
• Keeping current on course material through books, journals, and websites
• Interacting with students at times other than scheduled office hours in support of learning activities
• Preparing labs
• Maintaining labs
• Preparing assignments
• Preparing and administering evaluation tools
• Maintaining course syllabi
• Maintaining course outlines
• Maintaining course objectives
• Creating and reviewing course materials used
• Participating as a Course Coordinator
• All other activities that enable the faculty member to provide learner-centered activities to meet the student outcomes of the course
• Complete course and program assessment activities

**Institutional Support Activities may include, but are not limited to:

Committees:

• Serving as the chair of a committee
• Serving as a committee member

Meetings:

• Attend department meetings
• Attend division meetings
• Attend advisory committee meetings

Other:

• Participating in student recruitment for individual programs and the College as a whole
• New program development
• Major course revision
• Assisting with activities for the recognition of the College/College programs
• Represent the College on a community agency or board
• Attending and assisting with graduation
• Attending other College activities
• Tutoring in the SSC
• Mentoring a new faculty member
• Writing grant proposals
• Working on a special project
• Assisting with program reviews
• Assisting with accreditation activities (both for an individual program and for the College)
• Assisting with technology development, review, and revision
• Assisting with non-credit course development
• Assisting with Corporate testing and evaluation

Community Service:

• Volunteering to serve a community organization
• Speaking at an area organization
• Being on an area agency's advisory committee
• Working collaboratively with an area agency

Personal/Professional Development:

• Participating in professional development days (on-campus)
• Attending off-campus workshops and conferences
• Being licensed/certified by professional organizations
• Serving on a committee/board of a related professional organization
• Presenting at a conference
• Authoring an article

15 credit or 18 contact hours of faculty "direct facilitation of learning" workload is an average per quarter. Normally the faculty member will be paid overload pay for hours above this at a rate of every load hour above the 15 credit/18 contact being credited as one overload hour. However, load is calculated quarterly and the real goal is a yearly (contract year) average of 15 credit/18 contact hours/week. Therefore, faculty may use overload hours in one quarter to cover shortages of work load in another quarter. This will be maintained under the faculty member's supervisor's direction. Any exceptions to this must be approved by the Vice President for Learning.

When a faculty member has the required base teaching load in any quarter, they may refuse the assignment of additional hours.

If the initial schedule assigned to a faculty member is less than the base teaching load, they may be assigned an additional course or courses for which they are qualified to bring them up to at least the minimum teaching load.

In the event a faculty member has less than the base teaching load and no course is available to assign to the faculty member to bring the load to the minimum, at the option of the faculty member in consultation with their supervisor and with the approval of the Vice President for Learning: 1.) Other duties may be assigned to the faculty member that are consistent with their employment status, such as curriculum development or institutional research activities, to bring the faculty member to minimum load. Such assignment will be two clock hours per week for each contact hour per week, or: 2.) Unit members may "bank"/utilize overload hours one quarter to cover work load shortages in another quarter within the same contract year. When unit members on nine month contracts teach during their non- contracted quarter, those hours may also be banked to cover work load shortages in another quarter within the same contract year. This banking of load hours will be maintained by the unit member's supervisor, or 3.) If there is reasonable assurance that within the remaining quarters of the academic year, sufficient teaching assignments will be available to cover the deficient hours, the faculty member may elect to waive the 15 credit or 18 contact hour limitation and teach the deficient number of hours in a subsequent quarter over the required base load at no extra compensation in lieu of the assignment of other duties.

When a faculty member's full-time teaching load includes a number of separate course preparations that exceeds 9 during a three-quarter academic year or 12 during a four-quarter academic year, the faculty member shall receive one load hour per course preparation above that number. Under this provision, a "course preparation" counts only if it is three credit hours or more or consists of several courses making up three credit hours or more that are combined and called a single course preparation. A faculty member's full-time base teaching load in any given quarter (as opposed to their overload) shall always be constructed to consist of the smallest possible number of preparations.

Complaints relative to the calculation of teaching load shall be discussed with the appropriate supervisor. Both the supervisor and the faculty member will attempt to reach mutual resolution. The faculty member involved may invite the NCSFA-AAUP to participate in the discussion. If no agreement is reached at this meeting, the faculty member will bring the matter to the attention of the NCSFA-AAUP and the Vice President for Learning for resolution.

Section 21.02 Faculty Overload

The use of full-time faculty to teach overload courses can contribute in a number of ways to effective instruction. Most importantly, these contributions include greater consistency between day and evening offerings and expertise in both course content and teaching effectiveness. However, the amount of full-time faculty overload must remain reasonable and be linked to an evaluation process to help assure the quality and effectiveness of instruction.

In a quarter when a faculty member is under contract to provide full-time instruction at the College, they may be teaching a course in which part of the hours move then to full load (15 credit hours or 18 contact hours), and the remaining course hours are overload. These overload hours are excluded from the restrictions outlined in the next paragraph.

When a faculty member is under contract to provide full-time instruction at the College, their overload will normally not exceed ten (10) credit hours or twelve (12) contact hours per quarter. All overload hours must have the approval of the faculty member's Dean/designee. Any exceptions to these restrictions must be approved by the Vice President for Learning.

In a quarter when a faculty member is not under a full-time teaching contract with the College, their teaching load (payable at the appropriate overload rate) will normally not exceed twenty-five (25) credit hours or thirty (30) contact hours during an eleven week session, or eighteen (18) credit hours or twenty-two (22) contact hours during an eight week session. All hours must have approval of the faculty member's Dean/designee. Any exceptions to these restrictions must be approved by the Vice President for Learning.

Section 21.03 Special Load Calculation

Each hour of any teaching activity is counted as a full load hour (credit hour or contact hour) except for those listed below:

Respiratory Therapy clinical education

• 1 load hour per 1 hour of clinical supervision of students each week for full-time faculty; when an adjunct and full-time faculty member must team teach a clinical, the adjunct faculty will receive .8 load hour per 1 hour of clinical supervision of students each week and the full-time faculty will receive .2 load hour for supervisory coordination.

RES 245

• 1 load hour per student enrolled

Radiology clinical education

• .8 load hour per 1 hour of clinical supervision each week

Practicums

• .5 load hour per student per course

Directed Practice

• 1 load hour per student per course

Pharmacy Intensive Practicum (PHM 140)

• 1.5 load hour per student

Open Lab

• .5 load hour per 1 hour of lab supervision each week

Business Practicums & Consultation (BUS 200)

• .75 load hour per student

Mechanical Design Project (MEC 291 and MEC 292)

• .5 load hour per student

Cooperative Work Experience (IND 299)

• .5 load hour per student

Electrical Maintenance Project and Field Experience (ELM 291, ELM 292, and ELM 299)

• .5 load hour per student

Tool & Die Technology Project and Field Experience (TND 291, TND 292, and TND 299)

• .5 load hour per student

Welding Technology Project and Field Experience (WLD 291, WLD 292, WLD 299)

• .5 load hour per student

Video Course Management

  (a) Video Course Development — local course development - "from scratch"

  (b) Video Course Development — adaptation of externally licensed course

  (c) Video Course Management A bargaining unit member who manages a video course shall be compensated as follows:

Section 21.06 Office hours

  (a) Members of the bargaining unit shall maintain four office hours per week when classes are in session. Section 21.07  

Section 21.06 Special Load Arrangements

  (a) No special load arrangements will be made between a faculty member and the administration without the NCSFA-AAUP being consulted.

Section 21.08 Time Between Quarters

Members of the bargaining unit are not required to be on campus during the time between quarters.