Workload language
Calif. State University System: “The instructional assignments of individual faculty members in the classroom, laboratory, or studio will be determined by the appropriate administrator after consultation with the department chair or designee and/or the individual faculty member. The department or other appropriate unit's overall instructional or course assignments shall be consistent with department and student needs.”
Rutgers System (two research universities and one masters): “The parties recognize that the University accomplishes a variety of academic and professional services including undergraduate, graduate, and professional instruction, research and community service. The professional duties required of the faculty shall be in accordance with the mission of the University. Individual workload assignments of members of the bargaining unit shall be consistent with the practice of their department, program, or unit. Claims of inconsistency with such practices by members of the bargaining unit shall be grievable as a Category Two grievance under the contract grievance procedure”.
Eastern Washington University: “Workload will be composed of eighty percent (80%) teaching, equivalent to thirty-six (36) credit hours of lecture/demonstration course instruction during an academic year, and a combination of scholarship/creative activity and service that accounts for the remaining twenty percent (20%) of the faculty member’s professional responsibilities. Variances in the ratio of teaching to scholarship/creative activity and service may be due to accreditation requirements; assigned time for administrative responsibilities; the extent of research and service activities as defined in FAPs; and teaching productivity from special faculty within the college.”
WWU Current University Proposal (3/26) (Link to full language for context): "The parties agree to continue the current collaboration between the dean and the department chairs with appropriate consultation with department faculty, regarding the definition of teaching or librarianship constituting one FTE workload in the college. Department chairs shall have the flexibility to make changes in departmental workload among faculty members due to programmatic, curricular and student needs. (University proposal 4/16)