KYSU Online Faculty Handbook
9-month faculty13 faculty workload units (WLU) teaching and/or other workload36
12-month faculty16 faculty workload units (WLU) teaching and/or other workload37
Overload Compensation
Full-time overload rate450 per faculty workload unit (WLU), up to 2700 per course.
2.2.2.1 Calculating Workload Capacity for Full-time Faculty
In each subterm, the capacity of a full-time faculty member for workload as an online faculty member will depend generally on their total faculty workload.38 The total workload in support of the residential programs will factor into decisions made by the Department Chair and the Director of Online Education when assigning course load for KYSU Online/Global. For this reason, there could be times when a full-time faculty member does not have the capacity for duties as an online faculty member in a subterm or semester.
See the document, KYSU Online Faculty Workload Policy, and the document, KYSU Online Faculty Workload Procedures, for additional details.
2.2.2.2 Calculating Compensation
Regardless of faculty employment status, all KYSU Online/Global course load is paid at a standard rate of $450 per WLU, up to $2700 per course section, apart from low-enrollment and over-enrollment pay adjustments. See the pay scales in the document, KYSU Online Faculty Workload Procedures, for additional details.
2.2.3 Tracking Adjunct Faculty Workload for KYSU Online/Global
Unlike full-time faculty, adjunct faculty are not contracted annually for a specific amount of teaching, service, and scholarly activity. However, the Faculty Handbook specifies that adjunct faculty workloads are normally less than the required teaching loads of full-time faculty, and workload must be tracked to administer compensation. Additionally, as noted in Section 2.1.2.3 above, adjunct faculty workload must be tracked to calculate the average adjunct hours of service during the look-back period of benefit administration for part-time faculty.
36 The Faculty Handbook articulates this as 39 workdays of overload per year (or 19.5 workdays of overload per semester). The overload is comprised of teaching (capped at 6 credit hours per semester) and other overload (which is quantified in workdays). The credit hours are converted to workdays equivalents based on a 1/3 ratio (3 credit hours is the equivalent of 9 faculty workdays).
37 The Faculty Handbook articulates this as 48 workdays of overload per year. It is unclear whether this should be understood as 24 workdays of overload per semester (fall and spring) or as 19.5 workdays of overload per semester (fall and spring) and 10 more workdays of overload in the summer session. The overload is comprised of teaching (capped at 6 credit hours per semester) and other overload (which is quantified in workdays). The credit hours are converted to workdays equivalents based on a 1/3 ratio (3 credit hours is the equivalent of 9 faculty workdays).
38 This calculation must account for whether a faculty member is an undergraduate or graduate faculty status, the length of their faculty contract (9 or 12 months), their residential course load, their administrative release, other required faculty assignments, residential teaching overload, and non-credit bearing overload for the residential campus.