SUPPORTING REDEFINITION OF THE FACULTY WORKLOAD
AND CREATING A TASKFORCE TO PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
#RF02-203
WHEREAS Some departments and programs at San
Francisco State University have an expected teaching load for tenured and
tenure-track faculty members of twelve weighted teaching units per semester and
other departments and programs have an expected teaching load of nine units or
less; now therefore be it
RESOLVED by
the Academic Senate of San Francisco State University that it shall be a goal
of San Francisco State University to move, as expeditiously as possible, to
reconfigure the normative faculty workload so that the usual teaching load for
tenured and tenure-track teaching faculty shall be approximately sixty percent
of the total workload (15 Weighted Teaching Units) each semester with a corresponding
increase in the faculty workload in areas other than classroom instruction,
including research, scholarly activity, creative work, professional
development, and service; and be it further
RESOLVED by the Academic Senate SFSU that a taskforce,
including representatives of the Academic Senate SFSU, the California Faculty
Association, and the SFSU administration (in the model of the successful system-wide
ACR 73 taskforce), be appointed jointly by the Chair of the Academic Senate
SFSU and by the Vice-President for Academic Affairs and charged with
·
Determining a normative teaching load within a normative
overall workload for all faculty members, including variations for particular
disciplines or circumstances,
·
Developing an implementation plan for reconfiguring the
normative faculty workload for those departments and faculty members that wish
to do so, and
·
Reporting its recommendations to the Academic Senate and the
Vice- President for Academic Affairs no later than the final senate meeting in
May 2003.
***UNANIMOUSLY
APPROVED by the Academic Senate at its meeting on