FACULTY WORKLOAD

FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) Faculty is calculated by adding the percentage of all full-time and part-time work loads for all assignments and dividing by 100. Since work load is measured on a percent scale, with 100% equal to full-time, this calculation translates part-time faculty into a full-time equivalent. FTE provides a standard measurement of the number of faculty needed to manage all work load assignments in a given year.

Faculty assignments are comprised of: direct instruction, indirect instruction, administrative, research/creative, public service, and other.

• Direct instruction encompasses credit hour generating activities performed by faculty members. Team taught, multiple sequence, and cross-listed courses are counted once. Independent study, foreign study, thesis research, internships, student teaching, and Institute for Professional Development courses are excluded.

• Indirect Instruction assignments do not generate credit hours and include: curriculum development, program advisement, and doctoral dissertation advisement.

• Administrative assignments are those duties which are assumed by faculty members bearing the titles: department chair, program director, and associate dean.

• Research/Creative assignments are related to research or scholarly activities in a relevant field including formal research assignments and artistic endeavors.

• Public Service assignments are those which reflect the public service goals of the university.

• Other includes any faculty activity outside the scope of the previous categories. These activities are classified as either unassigned time or paid/unpaid leave.

Percent FTE is the percentage of full-time equivalent faculty in each assignment.

Course Equivalent is used to quantify the amount of time spent in each work load assignment vis-à-vis teaching a course. One course equivalent equals the amount of time a faculty member spends teaching one course during the academic year. Course equivalents are calculated by adding the faculty work load percentages within each assignment and then dividing by the percentage of time needed to teach one course. Some faculty exceed 100% work load, thus, the sum of assignment course equivalents may also exceed the full work load listed in the following table.