employee during a future period (referred to as the stability period) based upon the hours of service of the employee in a prior period (referred to as the measurement period).7
In the administrative period, the Office of Human Resources will evaluate adjunct hours of service during the measurement period to determine the appropriate actions to take for benefits administration in the stability period. Any part-time faculty employee (i.e., adjunct faculty member) averaging 30 or more hours of service per week during the measurement period will be contacted by Human Resources to review health insurance coverage options for the subsequent stability period.
Since KYSU Online offers courses in sub-terms, workload calculations must factor in the compression of a semester-length course into a sub-term. This has an amplifying effect on calculations of adjunct hours of service. In other words, if an adjunct delivers the WLU in half the number of semester weeks, there is a corollary doubling of the adjunct hours of service in each delivery week. This is important because the average adjunct hours of service per week, which is calculated during the look-back period, only considers active weeks. So, the same workload can lead to different ahs calculations depending on how it is distributed across terms and sub-terms.
Academic weeks (acwk): A semester-length course must be at least 15 weeks of academic engagement.
Semester (sem): A semester includes at least 15 weeks of academic engagement.
Semester week (semwk): One actual week of a semester-length course, during which a commensurate portion of 15 academic weeks are delivered. So, 1 semester week is approximately 1 academic week of engagement.
Sub-term (sub): A sub-term is half the length of a semester-length course. It delivers the equivalent of 15 weeks of academic engagement in half the time.
Sub-term week (subwk): One actual week of a sub-term-length course, during which a commensurate portion of 15 academic weeks are delivered. So, 1 sub-term week is approximately 2 academic weeks of engagement.
Credit hour (cr): The standard unit for measuring instructional faculty workload.
Release from credit hours (rcr): The equivalent number of credit hours of teaching from which a faculty member has been released to perform administrative duties.
Faculty workdays (fwd): A day of faculty workload, which is approximately 10 faculty work hours. This was previously used to calculate full-time faculty overload caps. It assumes that 1 credit hour equated to 3 faculty workdays.
Faculty work hours (fwh): An hour of faculty workload, which is approximately 1/10 of a faculty workday.
7 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2014-03082/p-99