Jill, all of my work has been in state regional universities. However, some similarities to liberal arts colleges may apply.
In my experience, the work expectation is less finely divided than you describe. Expectations are generally for teaching, scholarship, and service. Supervision of student research overlaps scholarship and teaching, but is usually credited against teaching load in some fashion. For example, at one institution where I was for many years, supervising a 3 credit hour master's thesis was credited at 1/5 of a 3 credit hour graduate level course, so supervising 5 theses would supplant one course. Undergraduate project supervision was credited at a somewhat lesser value, but I don't remember what it was. Service work such as advising, committee membership and so on was on top of normal teaching load. Chairing a major campus-wide committee such as the faculty senate did carry teaching load relief, as did a few other very large committees. So did an administrative assignment such as graduate coordinator in a large department, or chairing any department (with credit varying depending on department size, but usually released from half of normal teaching load for chair, less for coordinator). Deans only taught occasionally, and by choice. Their administrative job was considered a full load. Scholarship was expected on top of normal teaching load. Funded projects carried released time from teaching if written into the budget. Normal teaching load varied somewhat depending on initial negotiations with the individual faculty member, but usually was 9 or 12 sch, with labs credited at 2/3. That all translated to usually teaching 2-3 courses, serving on committees, supervising research, and scholarship resulting in presentations and publications. Administrative duties reduced the teaching, as did funded research. Hope this helps, and though retired from these activities now, I would still like to hear how others handle things. David McNeely ---- Jill Barlow-Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings! As a member of Academic Affairs at College of the Atlantic (COA), > Maine, I am interested in faculty workloads. COA requires all things of > faculty members - teaching, advising, independent work, student projects, > academic and subcommittees, search and hiring committees and many > administrative duties. Academic Affairs is interested in finding out how > other colleges and universities allocate responsibilities beyond teaching and > advising to faculty and if extra compensation is awarded. Any guidance > would be appreciated. Thank you, Jill
