Article XI, Faculty Workload

Collective Bargaining Agreement between the University of Delaware and American Association of University Professors, University of Delaware Chapter

July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1996

1. It is agreed by the parties hereto that the provisions of this Article are intended for the sole purpose of maintaining or enhancing the academic quality of the University. Except as set forth in paragraphs 4 and 5, it is further agreed that this Article shall not be used as a basis of limiting faculty workload when such limitations would interfere with matters of academic judgment.

2. Each academic department/unit will have approved workload policies in place consistent with the "Workload Policy Guidelines" issued on December 15, 1989. The policy must address each component of the workload as defined in 11.3 below. The composition of the workload, whether in terms of percentage of effort, number of clock hours, number of credit hour equivalents, or some other metric, must be specified in the unit's policy. Departments/units may modify their policy at any time following the procedures outlined in the above referenced Workload Policy Guidelines.

3. Workload is defined as teaching, including instruction in regular academic year courses with assigned credit hours and mutually agreed upon instructional assignments, such as thesis, dissertation, seminar and special problems supervision (workload of faculty members on fiscal year contracts may include summer session courses); research, including sponsored research, advising; committee work; and University-administered, consultative, and organized activities, not only inside but also outside the University, when such activities by mutual agreement bring benefit and/or prestige to the University.

4. An individual's workload shall be assigned with the expectation that the faculty member will have the opportunity to meet the criteria for promotion and satisfactory peer review.

5. Faculty will be on campus as required by their workload.

6. The planned student-bargaining unit faculty ratio will not exceed 17.9 full-time graduate and undergraduate (A full-time graduate student is one carrying nine (9) or more course credit hours per semester, or a graduate teaching assistant or a graduate research assistant. Full-time undergraduate students are those carrying twelve (12) or more course credit hours per semester.) students per member of the bargaining unit in the University as a whole. It is fully agreed that these ratios may vary from unit to unit within the University, and among faculty members.

7. Except by mutual agreement the teaching and advisement portion of each individual's workload will not average in excess of 12 credit-contact hours or in excess of 18 teaching contact hours per week per semester for the academic year, (Each hour spent in scheduled classroom teaching counts as 1 credit-contact hour. Each hour spent in scheduled laboratory, field or clinical instruction and individual instruction counts as 1/2 credit- contact hour. Scheduled individual special problems and theses count as 1 credit-contact hour, and dissertations count as 2 credit-contact hours. Thirty full-time undergraduate advisees are equivalent to 1/2 credit-contact hour. Each hour spent in scheduled individual laboratory, field, studio, or clinical instruction which requires the constant attendance of the faculty member for the entire scheduled hours of instruction, and which does not involve the participation of teaching assistants, counts as one teaching contact hour per week.) nor shall the average teaching load of the unit exceed the approved workload policy of the unit. If a teaching assignment results in an overload, extra compensation will be awarded at the prevailing rate. Overload may not be assigned without consent of the individual.

8. The department chairperson (or dean or director) and faculty member will develop in writing a workload plan for each semester at least two months prior to the beginning of the semester. Every effort will be made to develop the workload plan harmoniously. Faculty members and department chairpersons (or deans or directors) are encouraged to develop a workload plan on an administered basis, i.e. in any semester teaching duties of individual faculty members may vary within a department (or unit) to permit variations in emphasis on research and other aspects of individual workload provided the total teaching and scholarly needs of the faculty member and the department (or unit) are met.

9. In developing a workload plan, courses will be scheduled so that the anticipated enrollment in any course at the 500 level and above will not exceed 35.

10. Department chairs/deans will apprise full-time members of the department/college of CEND, Summer/Winter Sessions courses, all S-Contract regular session courses and Study Abroad teaching opportunities during the regular semesters or special sessions (exclusive of language-based programs) in advance of assignments to these programs and courses. These opportunities will be broadly announced, and efforts will be made to staff these programs and courses with appropriately qualified full-time members of the department.