Re: Faculty replacement Janet M. Hahn 03 May 2000 16:06 EST
I hope more continue this conversation. We are currently setting up a R&D institute within the university and have not found lots of specificity when we have asked other institutions. Policies and procedures used by others in the evaluation for promotion, tenure, merit raises would be especially useful. What alternative procedures to you have in the evaluation of faculty for time spent out of the traditional teaching faculty role, especially if the other duties are more outreach than research or normal university teaching. Radford University, a state university of 8,500 students in Virginia has a teaching load of 12 credit hours (a few departments have less). The policy is that it is up to the chair, dean, and vp for academic affairs to approve requests for any amount of reassigned time. Sometimes thare are objections about the amount of proposed time. Departments typically buy adjunct replacements, although sometimes several reassigned classes are pieced together into a full time position for 1-3 year appointments. More than the standard credit hours of teaching are expected of those who are 1-year temporary without the usual accompanying duties. Janet At 02:44 PM 5/3/00 -0500, you wrote: >Laura, at University of Wisconsin-River Falls (a primarily undergraduate institution of fewer than 6,000 students, standard teaching load 12 hours per semester), we have no blanket policy--it's up to the dept chair, dean and/or provost. A dean recently refused to allow a faculty member to buy out all of her teaching time through grants (she had several). That's an unusual circumstance for us; typically, grant recipients will buy out one course, occasionally two. > >Replacements are almost always adjuncts, what we call in Wisconsin academic staff (teaching), who have no responsibilities outside the classroom. But once again, there is no blanket policy. > >Regards, Bill > >Bill Campbell >Director, Grants & Research >University of Wisconsin-River Falls > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== > > ****************************************************************************** Janet M. Hahn, C.R.A. xxxxxx@runet.edu Executive Director, Sponsored Programs phone: 540-831-5479 Radford University fax: 540-831-6636 Radford, VA 24142-6926 http://www.runet.edu/~sponsrpr/ ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================