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Task Force on Faculty Workload: Report to Dean David Hough

Faculty Workloads, Stipends, Special Projects, Mentorship,

and Support for Grant Writing  Task Force

  1. 1.     What faculty teaching, research, and service activities have been given stipends/reassigned by COE over the past 3 years?
  • We utilized information from Fall 2011 – Fall 2012

Teaching:

  • Faculty report percentage assignments for teaching ranging from 30-100% (data include instructors and tenured faculty).
  • Workload percentages allow for 30-80% teaching for tenured faculty (per Provost policy).
  • No written evidence of overload compensation, anecdotal evidence contradicted written evidence.
  • Comparison of written and anecdotal evidence revealed differences in teaching assignments.
  • No teaching workload was provided for teachers at Greenwood.
  • No workload policy was found for Greenwood.
  • Program Coordinators have the option of being paid a stipend or choosing reassigned time. $1,800 -$3600 per year, including summer.
    • Per course per semester for 3 credits would =$2700 per semester/$5400 for 2 semesters.
    • Anecdotal information indicates this is a perceived inequity for Program Coordinators.

Research:

  • Faculty report percentage assignments for research ranging from 0-40% (data include instructors and tenured faculty).
  • Workload percentages allow for 10-60% research for tenured faculty (per Provost policy).
  • Reports did not include information on whether or not faculty are research active or not based on TLE.
  • A few faculty are receiving stipends for grant work.

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October 26, 2012 by David Hough

Faculty Workloads, Stipends, Special Projects, Mentorship,

and Support for Grant Writing  Task Force

  1. 1.     What faculty teaching, research, and service activities have been given stipends/reassigned by COE over the past 3 years?
  • We utilized information from Fall 2011 – Fall 2012

Teaching:

  • Faculty report percentage assignments for teaching ranging from 30-100% (data include instructors and tenured faculty).
  • Workload percentages allow for 30-80% teaching for tenured faculty (per Provost policy).
  • No written evidence of overload compensation, anecdotal evidence contradicted written evidence.
  • Comparison of written and anecdotal evidence revealed differences in teaching assignments.
  • No teaching workload was provided for teachers at Greenwood.
  • No workload policy was found for Greenwood.
  • Program Coordinators have the option of being paid a stipend or choosing reassigned time. $1,800 -$3600 per year, including summer.
    • Per course per semester for 3 credits would =$2700 per semester/$5400 for 2 semesters.
    • Anecdotal information indicates this is a perceived inequity for Program Coordinators.

Research:

  • Faculty report percentage assignments for research ranging from 0-40% (data include instructors and tenured faculty).
  • Workload percentages allow for 10-60% research for tenured faculty (per Provost policy).
  • Reports did not include information on whether or not faculty are research active or not based on TLE.
  • A few faculty are receiving stipends for grant work.

Service:

  • Faculty report percentage assignments for service ranging from 0-40% (data include instructors and tenured faculty).
  • Workload percentages allow for 5-20% service for tenured faculty. (per Provost policy)
  • No evidence from documents that faculty are receiving reassigned time for service.

Grant writing and Mentorship:

  • There is no evidence from documents that faculty are receiving reassigned time for grant writing or mentorship.
  • Anecdotal evidence shows that some faculty have received reassigned time for grant writing 

2.     Have stipends/reassigned time been provided to faculty across COE departments on a fair and equitable basis over the past 3 years? Why or why not?

  • Given the inconsistency in the information reported we are unable to determine.
  • Anecdotal evidence stated a lack of inequity.

 

3.     Which faculty assignments are most critical to the mission of the department, college and university?

  • Given the university’s mission of creating educated persons and the college’s mission of creating a legacy of learning, the central mission of the faculty in the College of Education is teaching.
    • Teaching is the central core of faculty work.
    • Research contributes to the faculty members’ knowledge, which contributes to the knowledge of the students. Therefore, research is secondary to teaching.
    • Service supports the work of the department, college, university, and profession. Therefore, service is tertiary to teaching and research.
    • See visual below

4.     Other than stipends and reassigned time, what types of faculty supports for extra work might be considered?

  • Increase travel money
  • Increase Graduate Assistant support
  • Provide additional work study students
  • Improve office furniture and space
  • Provide an ergonomic study on furniture/space
  • Provide mentorship for new faculty
  • Increase fee waivers for faculty who send their children to Greenwood
  • Increase fee waivers for MSU classes
  • Increase fee waiver for non-credit offerings
  • Increase wellness benefit such as recreation center memberships for family (or YMCA family membership on Jefferson)

5.     What recommendations should be considered by the COE Leadership Council and Budget Committee?:

  • Require all departments to develop a clear policy on what is research active as defined by Provost Policy.  Research active faculty can utilize a 9 hour TLE per semester.
  • Improve workload reporting:
    • Include research active column when workload assignments are reported.
    • Separate non tenured faculty from tenured faculty.
    • Develop a consistent form for all departments.
    • Include reassigned time for stipends, service, grant writing, and/or mentorship in departmental reports.
  • Design and implement a standard form for reporting Program Coordinator duties at the college level.
    • Charge COE GPAC to create such a form.
    • Utilize the information from this form to determine coordinator stipends or reassigned time.
  • Consider faculty activities outside of teaching, research and service in terms of their relevance to the central mission of teaching.
    • Require a strong rationale for such activities when considering stipends or reassigned time.
  • Consider faculty support for extra work, such as those identified in question 4.

 

Committee Members: Kim Roam (CEFS, Chair), Deanne Camp (RFT), Cindy MacGregor (CLSE), Diana Milburn (GLS)

Filed Under: Dean's 2012 Task Force, Faculty Advisory Council

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