Faculty workload is covered in Section 2.11 of the Faculty Handbook, but that Handbook does not distinguish any specific duties associated with KYSU Online/Global from general faculty work completed in support of the traditional programs. Additionally, given the KYSU Online Faculty Workload Policy,26 which prohibits full-time faculty from using online course load to satisfy their full-time teaching load obligations (apart from pre-approval from the Provost), further guidance is needed to relate online faculty workloads to the existing framework used for residentially-based programs. Online courses are offered in subterms; the compressed course delivery timelines impact faculty workload, which requires guidance beyond the Faculty Handbook. Moreover, additional guidance is needed to track the adjunct hours of service for benefits administration.27
Full-time faculty workload at Kentucky State University traditionally has been measured in credit hours for course instruction or administrative release and in workdays for various aspects of faculty service and overload. Both credit hours and workdays relate to approximations of faculty time spent working in a semester or contract period. These approximations of time (whether hours or workdays) are predicated on the relationship between course credit hours and time spent in academic engagement with students during a semester, which is a minimum of 15 weeks of academic engagement in a semester. The table below presents this system of values and assumptions used in credit hour and time-based faculty workload calculations at Kentucky State University.
Full-time faculty workload at Kentucky State University traditionally has been measured in credit hours for course instruction or administrative release and in workdays for various aspects of faculty service and overload. Both credit hours and workdays relate to approximations of faculty time spent working in a semester or contract period. These approximations of time (whether hours or workdays) are predicated on the relationship between course credit hours and time spent in academic engagement with students during a semester, which is a minimum of 15 weeks of academic engagement in a semester. The table below presents this system of values and assumptions used in credit hour and time-based faculty workload calculations at Kentucky State University.
Quantity Unit Formula / Explanation
25 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2014-03082/p-99
26 See 2.1.1.1 – Online Faculty Workload Policy
27 See 2.1.2.3 – Tracking Adjunct Faculty “Hours of Service”
1 Semester = 15 semester weeks of academic engagement.28
1 Credit hour = 1 hour of instruction AND 1 hour of grading/preparation PER semester week FOR 15 semester weeks. This equals 30 faculty work hours per credit.
1 Faculty workday = 10 faculty work hours.
1 Credit hour = 3 normal faculty workdays for the purposes of tracking overload.
1 Credit hour =$900 overload/adjunct compensation, up to $2700 per course apart from summer incentive compensation for residential courses.
1 Credit hour For full-time faculty, office hours are triggered for residential courses at a rate of 2/3 faculty office hours PER credit hour PER semester week in addition to the hours of instruction and grading/preparation.
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