Frequently Asked Questions

1. How are summer activities handled for 9 month faculty?

If an individual has summer responsibilities for which they are not directly compensated, then these activities need to be included in the faculty workload document.  For example if an individual is directing a graduate student during the summer, then the summer quarter should be included as one of the student quarters in completing entry I.B. of the form.  If a service activity requires substantial activity during the summer, then this activity should be included in the faculty workload document.  The general approach would be to establish the contact unit equivalency for the non-compensated summer activity, and to then include that equivalency in the workload document.  Note that summer activities for which direct compensation is received (teaching a course for example) should not be included in the faculty workload document.

2. How should the direction of graduate students pursuing a non-thesis option be handled?

This is not included in entry I.B. (Thesis/Dissertation Supervision).  It may be included under I.C. (Directed Individual Studies) if the student enrolls for a class under the supervision of the directing faculty member.  The guiding principle should be to attempt to evaluate the effort of the supervising individual in terms of contact unit equivalencies.  If the effort involved in directing the non-thesis student is equivalent to 0.5 or more contact units, then appropriate credit should be given in the document.  If the effort cannot be directly associated with a particular class in which the student is enrolled, entry II.C. (Other Instructional Effort) would normally be most appropriate.  If an entry II.C. is used, an appropriate expected outcome should be entered.

3. Should the workload be evenly distributed over the 9 or 12 month period?

This would be expected to normally be the case but is not required.