Physics Workload Policy
Physics Workload Policy
The guidelines for the assignment of workload for faculty are consistent with the national norms.
This Faculty Workload Policy Statement provides the guidance that is required by the institution as specified in the Idaho State University Faculty Workload Policy.
The total workload of a faculty member typically consists of activities related to 1) teaching, 2) research and scholarship, and 3) professional service.
An equitable method of assigning total workload for all faculty in the Department would account for faculty activity in all three of these areas.
Each faculty member is expected to contribute to the research and professional development activities and the service activity of the Department, College, and University above the teaching workload.
The manager of professional development workload and service workload will be made on an individual departmental basis by the Department Chair and in consultation with the Dean.
==The ISU Workload Equivalency Unit (WEU)
Lecture and laboratory classes and other requirements of professional programs in the Department require the use of a measure which recognizes faculty members' workload in units other than credit hours. The unit of measure defined in this document is the workload equivalency unit (WEU).
One WEU is defined as one hour per week of lecture, including all associated preparation and grading, to a class of approximately 10 undergraduate students for one full semester. One WEU is assumed to require three hours per week of instructor time distributed approximately as follows: one hour of in-class instruction, one hour of out-of-class preparation, and one hour of grading related activities.
A full-time faculty member will typically hand 30 WEUs per academic year (Fall, SPRIN): 9 WEUs for teaching, 4 WEUs for research/scholarship and 2 WEUs for service per semester.
This WEU model is used as a guide for the assignment of WEUs for teaching.