member carries an online course load, it will be separated from the terms of their full-time faculty contract. Similarly, online course load will not trigger a reduction in teaching load the following semester. When full-time faculty function as online faculty and carry an online course load, they are paid at the standard rates specified in Section 2.3 – Faculty Compensation.
Note: Full-time faculty may not use online course load towards their full-time teaching load obligations; online course load is handled separately. Exceptions to this must be approved by the Provost in advance.
This policy allows full-time faculty involvement in KYSU Online while preventing it from eroding the full-time faculty availability for residential courses and program/student support. Exceptions to this policy must be approved beforehand by the Provost/Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs.
Commented [JM36]: The policy document needs to be created.
For a full statement of this policy, see the document, KYSU Online Faculty Workload Policy.
The Office of Online Education will assign sections to online faculty based on their requested online load, their capacity for online load, and the needs of the KYSU Online. Although online course load is separate from the contracted load of full-time faculty, the Office of Online Education engages with administrators of the residential programs, such as Department Chairs, to ensure effective coordination of faculty workload across modalities. This is to ensure that full-time faculty remain adequately available for their primary obligations. The Office of Online Education also evaluates faculty workload capacity in the process of assigning online course load.
See Section 2.2.2.1 – Calculating Workload Capacity for Full-time Faculty. See also the document, KYSU Online Faculty Workload Procedures.
Commented [MD37]: We're not going to have department chairs and the online courses won't count toward load. Do we need a policy for online fulltime faculty?
Commented [JM38R37]: My thought was that full-time faculty who are contracted to teach residentially can still carry course load online, in which case it would be handled as overload. Since there are overload caps, I thought that the residential Department Chair would need to have some visibility into how much overload faculty were carrying on the online campus. Am I thinking about this correctly?
Commented [MD39]: FT teaching load - residential
The Office of Online Education will offer adjunct faculty opportunities for workload as online faculty using the document, KYSU Online Adjunct Faculty: Workload Offer Form Adjunct Workload Agreement form, before the start of each term or subterm.
Adjunct faculty must meet University criteria and the Faculty Credentials Guidelines of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC),22 for each course taught. It shall be the responsibility of the relevant program coordinator to ensure that adjunct faculty members are qualified to teach courses in their respective programs. This should Commented [JM36]: The policy document needs to be created.
22 https://sacscoc.org/app/uploads/2019/07/faculty-credentials.pdf
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Commented [JM40]: Mind that the KYSU Online faculty hiring processes need sufficient autonomy to meet the MIP plan. There will be some cross-pollination, but the online program is an autonomous subsidiary.