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.
Adjunct faculty may be recruited for specific work in the online programs. Unlike full-time faculty, the adjunct faculty do not hold a contracted teaching load in the residential programs. Each faculty type requires procedures for tracking faculty workload.
KYSU Online will measure faculty workload in faculty workload units (WLU). Faculty workload units are a single way to quantify various types of faculty workload. The table below shows how traditional elements of faculty workload in the credit hour systems of calculations are quantified in faculty workload units.
| Quantity | Metric | Equivalent Quantity WLU | Formula |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | credit hour (cr) | 2 WLU | WLU = cr × 2 |
| 1 | release from credit hours (rcr)1 | 2 WLU | WLU = rcr × 2 |
| 1 | faculty workday (fwd) | 2/3 WLU | WLU = fwd × (2/3) |
| 1 | faculty work hour (fwh) | 1/30 WLU | WLU = fwh × (1/30) |
These crosswalks to WLUs accommodate faculty workload tracking regardless of the known values (credit hours, release from teaching credit hours, faculty work hours, and faculty workdays).
The Office of Online Education will determine whether faculty workload for KYSU Online triggers payment. This determination is based upon a review of the faculty type (whether full-time or adjunct), existing contracts and executed agreements (e.g., whether the workload is included in the scope of a full-time faculty contract or extended contract/PAF), and whether the Provost has preapproved any exceptions to the regular workload policies and procedures (e.g., in some circumstances the Provost could approve online load to count towards a full-time faculty contracted load). The standard rates for paid faculty workload are presented in the table below.
| Quantity | Metric | Rate | Faculty and Workload Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WLU | $450 | Qualified credit-bearing WLUs carried by online faculty, up to 6 WLUs per course. |
| 1 | WLU | $450 | Qualified non-credit-bearing WLUs carried by online faculty. |
In addition to tracking the faculty workload units of adjunct faculty, KYSU Online also tracks the adjunct hours of service (ahs) for benefits administration. As part-time employees, if adjunct faculty average 30 or more adjunct hours of service (ahs) over a lookback period (which generally comprises the fall and spring terms), they should be considered full-time for benefits administration.2 More details are
1 These are credit hours of contracted teaching from which a faculty member is released; the equivalent workload is directed towards other duties, such as administrative assignments, committee leadership, or special projects.
2 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/part-54#p-54.4980H-1(a)(32)