Policy No.: 5050 Board Approved: March 16, 2004 Revised: June 21, 2022
Full-Time Faculty Load, Promotion, and Tenure Policy
FACULTY WORK LOAD All full-time faculty at HCC are expected to allocate their work hours in the following manner: 75% Teaching and Learning ......................................... 30 hours a week • Learner support activity (office hrs.) • Class preparation • Student contact hours (15-21 hrs.) 15% College and Community Service ............................ 6 hours a week • Serving on committees • Recruiting students • Presentations to faculty 10% Professional Developmental ................................... 4 hours a week Total .............................................................................. 40 hours a week These hours represent a minimum workload and many faculty members will work more than 40 hours in an average week to meet their responsibilities. FACULTY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES All full-time faculty are responsible for meeting the following duties: Teaching, Assessment, Student Advisement and Retention, Student Advocate, Curriculum Development, Student Recruitment and Program Marketing, Shared Governance, Professional Development, College Service, and Community Service. Teaching Load The base faculty teaching load shall be 15 credit-hour equivalents. For most faculty this would mean 15 hours and 15 credits of base load, since lecture or didactic hours are treated 1 for 1 in student contact hour to credit equivalency. Laboratory instruction is equivalent to clinical instruction for determination of load. In general, credit hours assigned to laboratory or clinical sections is a ratio of one to three (1:3). Therefore, one credit hour for three hours of instruction would be assigned. For clinical instruction of six hours, the credit hours that could be assigned are variable (i.e., 1.0, 1.5, 2.0). As an
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