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## POLICY TITLE:

## KYSU Online Faculty Workload Policy

VOLUME, SECTION & NUMBER:

1.3.10

ENTITIES AFFECTED:

Full-time Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

Administrators

ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY:

Board of Regents

Academic Affairs

APPROVED BY:

Kentucky State University Board of Regents

Office of the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs

Office of Online Education

EFFECTIVE DATE:

7/1/2024

REVISED FROM:

Section 2.11 of the Faculty Handbook

## PURPOSE:

The purpose of the KYSU Online Faculty Workload Policy is to define the relationship between full-time faculty contracts and online courses (i.e., courses taught in the online modality through KYSU Online). This policy also preserves the availability of full-time faculty for the residential programs of Kentucky State University despite their involvement in KYSU Online.

## POLICY STATEMENT:

The online programs are supported by two faculty types: full-time faculty (i.e., full-time residential faculty) and adjunct faculty. To ensure that an adequate number of full-time faculty are available for the residential academic programs, administrative assignments, and committee service, full-time faculty may not use online course load (i.e., courses delivered in the online modality in the academic programs of KYSU Online) to fulfill their full-time teaching requirements. Full-time faculty must fulfill their

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# KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

contractual teaching obligations with courses delivered in the traditional, hybrid, or virtual modalities. See the KYSU Online Course Modality Policy (1.3.14) for a description of each modality. The Provost must approve exceptions to this policy in advance.

Even though full-time faculty must fulfill their full-time teaching obligations with courses in the traditional, hybrid, and virtual modalities, they are permitted to supplement their full-time workload with KYSU Online courses. The online course load is handled separately from the full-time contract. See the KYSU Online Faculty Workload Procedures (1.3.15) for details.

## RELATED PROCEDURES:

The procedures outlined in KYSU Online Faculty Workload Procedures (1.3.15) will be used to measure and track faculty workload. These procedures support the needs of KYSU Online to accommodate a broader range of faculty work and types. The procedures also accommodate KYSU Online's use of subterms in addition to the standard semester-length terms of the residential programs.

## DEFINITIONS:

## Full-time Faculty

See the definitions of full-time faculty in the Faculty Handbook and the KYSU Online Faculty Handbook.

## Adjunct Faculty

See the definitions of adjunct faculty in the Faculty Handbook and the KYSU Online Faculty Handbook.

## RELATED POLICIES/DOCUMENTS:

1.3.14 KYSU Online Course Modality Policy

1.3.15 KYSU Online Faculty Workload Procedures

## STATUTORY OR REGULATORY REFERENCES:

## N/A

## POLICY OWNER/INTERPRETING AUTHORITY:

Office of the Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs

## DOCUMENT DATE AND VERSION:

5/25/2024 – 2024.05.25_KYSU_Online Faculty Workload Policy_v4.docx