[Duplicated text of Board of Regents Policy RP 9.214, Work Assignment for Faculty]
R-03, BOR Policy RP 9.214, Work Assignment for Faculty
RP 9.214 Work Assignments for Faculty
I. Purpose
To set forth policy regarding work assignments for faculty.
II. Definitions
No policy specific or unique definitions apply.
III. Policy
A. The primary responsibilities of most University faculty are teaching, research, specialized educational service, and community service. These responsibilities are not treated equally and will differ by the unit and the position to which the faculty has been appointed. Primary responsibilities for faculty in the Librarian (B) category are defined in each campus library’s department personnel committee’s criteria for tenure and promotion. Primary responsibilities for Extension Agent faculty include specialized noncredit teaching and research dissemination as appropriate to the extension work required of land-grant institutions and are further defined in the relevant department personnel committee criteria for tenure and promotion.
B. A faculty member’s work assignment is the proportion of work effort to be devoted in each of their primary responsibilities. Individual work assignments can vary depending upon a unit’s mission, workload policy, and the individual faculty member’s research trajectory and/or service obligations required of their specific position. Work assignments are expressed as a percentage of effort in the primary responsibilities appropriate to the faculty member’s classification.
C. The faculty of the University of Hawai‘i have duties and responsibilities for maintaining high professional standards that encompass a number of other professional activities in addition to teaching. The nature and scope of these other duties depend on the particular mission of the unit and the relationship of that mission to the faculty member’s professional qualifications and responsibilities. As instruction is the University of Hawai‘i’s primary priority, teaching remains among the most important duties of its faculty.
D. Work/teaching/credit hour assignment equivalencies (“Equivalencies”) (inclusive of both instructional and non-instructional duties) will be established to represent faculty work aligned with research, specialized educational services, and community service requirements suitable for each campus’s mission and purpose. Equivalencies are used as a mechanism for quantifying the range of work faculty complete, i.e., faculty professional duties and responsibilities of teaching outside traditional instructional classes, research, and service.
E. To ensure that the Board of Regents (BOR) is informed about faculty work assignments, the President shall present a systemwide report on tenured and tenure-track faculty work assignments to the BOR annually. The report shall delineate the work assignment of tenured and tenure-track faculty by college/school/division. The report should include, at minimum, the percentage of the work assignment that is instruction and the percentage of faculty who meet established work assignment for their unit.
F. Campuses and/or individual colleges or units in consultation with faculty are required to establish expectations for research and service time in the work assignment expressed in semester credit hours or teaching equivalencies for the purpose of assigning faculty appropriate work based on their classification. In recognition of the diverse responsibilities of the University and its faculty, campuses/colleges shall recommend and each Chancellor/Provost shall approve expectations for specific non-instructional activities and for other types of instruction (clinical practice, laboratory, thesis supervision, etc.), that are consistent with and in furtherance of the mission of the University unit and program.
G. Except as otherwise provided herein, the standard work assignments for fulltime, 9-month faculty shall be as follows:
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- By credit hours:
a. 24 Equivalencies per academic year at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa,
b. 24 Equivalencies per academic year at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo,
c. 24 Equivalencies per academic year at University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu, and
d. 27 Equivalencies per academic year in the community colleges.
H. Except as otherwise provided herein, the standard work assignments for fulltime 11-month faculty and part-time faculty shall be as follows:
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- Full-time 11-month faculty standard work assignments extend the 9-month 24 credit hour/27 Equivalency base to include two summer months.
a. 30 Equivalencies per academic year at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa,
b. 30 Equivalencies per academic year at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo,
c. 30 Equivalencies per academic year at University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu, and
d. 36 Equivalencies per year at the community colleges.
2. Work assignments for part-time faculty or for faculty with less than a 1.0 FTE appointment shall be pro-rated by their fractional full-time equivalent.
I. It is expected that the development of appropriate Equivalencies will involve consultation with faculty, chairs, and academic deans. Such Equivalencies shall be specifically articulated and reported to the Vice President for Academic Strategy so that they can be integrated into the faculty work assignment template. For the community colleges, the Equivalencies have been determined using UHCCP 9.237.
J. The Equivalencies for every unit shall be publicly posted online and readily available directly from a single point on each campus website.
K. Each unit shall ensure against discriminatory work assignments. In addition, each Chancellor/Provost shall establish procedures to monitor the effectiveness of teaching reductions for non-instructional duties.
L. Each tenured and tenure-track faculty member will make available to the public a curriculum vita or biobibliography which will be posted electronically.
IV. Delegation of Authority:
There is no policy specific delegation of authority.
V. Contact Information:
Office of the Vice President for Administration, (808) 956-6405, vpadmin@hawaii.edu
Office of the Vice President for Academic Strategy, (808) 956-6897, ovpas@hawaii.edu
VI. References:
- http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/bor/
- EP 9.203