Academic Policy Manual

Faculty Workload Issues

• Cancellation of Sections
• Reassigned Time
• Team-Taught Courses
• Tutorials 


Reassigned Time Program

Purpose

The purpose of the Siena College reassigned time program is to promote and support faculty scholarship. The program recognizes that outstanding teaching is of paramount importance at Siena College. The reassigned time program seeks to support outstanding teaching by providing faculty members with the resources to remain at the cutting edge of their discipline.

In awarding reassigned time, consideration will be given to the impact on a faculty member’s professional development as well as the reputation of the College. It is understood that these projects can take the form of advancing the state of knowledge in a field or advancing the pedagogy in a specific field of knowledge.

All projects undertaken with reassigned time should have a goal of peer-reviewed presentation and publication. Peer review ensures that a minimum level of quality has been achieved in one’s work. It also can serve to enhance the quality of one’s future professional development activities as well as enhance the reputation of the College. Awards will be made based on the judgment of the academic deans and the VPAA and according to the available funding.

Procedure

The number of awards made is contingent upon the quality of applications and the amount of funds established to support the reassigned time program. Awards will be made for a minimum of one semester up to a maximum of six semesters.

Applications for reassigned time starting in the next academic year will be due in the dean’s office no later than January 10 of each year. The application must be submitted electronically and simultaneously to the dean and department head. The department head’s role is to determine the impact the reassigned time will have on the department. In addition, the application must include the following information:

  1. A working title or titles (if multiple projects)
  2. A description of the
  3. A note on the project(s)’ current status
  4. A timeline for completion of the project(s)
  5. A specific description of the intended peer review forum (conference, publication, etc.) and what form that will take (paper presentation, journal article, book publication, etc)
  6. A description of the outcome of previous reassigned time awards
  7. Professional Data Record

Reporting Requirements

Reporting will be included in annual PDR update and the required faculty reviews.

(Rev. Jan 2006)

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Team-Taught Courses

  1. A “team-taught” course is a course in which both faculty are to be considered the primary instructors; both share equally the teaching responsibilities of the course and are present during each class. (This applies to courses designated as “team-taught” via the BOI, as well as courses that are designated as “team­taught” but not passed by the BOI.)
  2. It should be noted that any team-taught course is only offered at the recommendation of the department head and dean (subject to VPAA approval) The department heads and deans will weigh the financial cost to the institution and the possible necessity for adjunct instructors before making this recommendation.
  3. If the course was designated as team-taught, then each faculty member teaching the course shall receive full contact credit. It is expected in a team­taught course that both faculty members will be present during each class and share teaching responsibilities. Any current policies on overload payment apply also to team-taught courses.
  4. If the course was not designated as “team-taught”, then the department head and dean must agree to the arrangement AND the contact credit is split/shared by the faculty.

(Revision approved by BOI 2/13/07)

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Tutorials

  1. Tutorials are requested in writing by the deans and must be approved by the VPAA. There is a form for this and it must be completed before the registrar lists the course in Banner (at that time the course is available in the load report).
  2. Tutorials: compensation is calculated as the per-credit tuition rate x number of workload hours x number of students in the tutorial, subject to a maximum payment equal to what would be paid as an overload for a regular section.
  3. Tutorials are generally authorized under the following circumstances:
    – The student needs the course to meet a curricular requirement and the course will not be offered (or be available to the student) before graduation; and
    – A FT faculty member is willing to teach the course in overload (not in load); or
    – The tutorial can be offered in the summer (at the per-credit adjunct pay rate).

    Note: A tutorial will not be authorized for a student who could have taken the course when it was regularly offered but elected not to.
  4. Sometimes adjustments in tutorial-pay are made based on enrollments after the add date; however, we do not usually make adjustments when students withdraw between the add date and the withdraw date (the last withdraw date is two weeks before the end of classes.

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