This is really a "depends" sort of question. Policies I have seen vary widely, such as
For full time faculty: -5 office hours per week, period. -5 office hours per week, but varies depending on certain factors (e.g., can be reduced if the instructor is spending more than X hours in classroom/lab) -enough so that your official on-campus duties total up to 37.5 hours per week -may vary if instructor is teaching online (sometimes this means the instructor can have 'office hours' online from home, other places it means the instructor needs to have MORE office hours on campus to make up for the fact they they're not physically in the classroom). For part time faculty: -From 30 minutes to 3 hours a week per class. (Varies with the summer term.) Sometimes these hours are a mandatory part of taking on the class, sometims paid separately, sometimes SUPPOSED to be paid separately, but cancelled mid-semester. Oh, I've also seen NO office hours required for PT faculty. So, if you're wondering about the "supposed to" for this question, you really need to consult the faculty handbook/contract or equivilant. -Lenore Frigo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] How many office hours? Is there a rule as to the amount of office hours a faculty member should hold? I may be mistaken but I thought that it was 2 hours for each class taught: for example a prof teaching three classes would be expected to designate 6 hours of office time. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida "if two people always think alike,one of them is unnecessary." --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
