Institutional policies must reflect the minimum teaching requirements in section 5.B.I. This includes allowances for exceptions, equivalencies, and adjustments under section 5.B. Teaching loads may exceed the minimum requirements.<\/p>\n
Academic Department chairs\u2019 teaching responsibilities may be reduced commensurate with their duties as chairperson. \u00a0An academic department includes a functional equivalent designated by a UW institution which could include but is not limited to schools, colleges, divisions, department-like bodies, centers, clinics, institutes, programs, or other academic units that have been formally recognized by a UW institution through its established processes for such recognition.<\/p>\n
Institutional policies must establish credit hour equivalencies for activities included in teaching workload, which include, but are not limited to graduate instruction, high-enrollment courses, writing-intensive courses, laboratory, studio and discussion sessions, individual instruction, field work\/experience, clinical instruction and supervision, and dissertation and thesis supervision.<\/p>\n
Academic department chairs\u2019 teaching workload reduction, if any, is not included in the ten percent allowances for administrative duties or additional adjustments under section 5.B.VI.1& 3. Assistant or associate deans are included only in proportion to any active faculty appointment.<\/p>\n
UW institutions may designate up to 10 percent of their instructional employees for administrative duties, which are responsibilities designated by a UW institution involving the operation and strategic development of an institution and do not include academic department chairperson duties.\u00a0This includes shared governance responsibilities as defined by institutional policy. This is calculated on an aggregate, full-time equivalent basis.<\/p>\n
Employees with a concurrent (backup) instructional position in active non-instructional appointments are not counted in this total.<\/p>\n
Employees with a part-time non-instructional appointment are only counted in this total to the extent they are granted a release from their part-time instructional role in addition to their non-instructional appointment.<\/p>\n
UW institutions may designate up to 10 percent of their instructional employees for other duties and considerations, including but not limited to market considerations, faculty readaptation or post-tenure review remediation, and accreditation requirements. This is calculated on an aggregate, full-time equivalent basis.<\/p>\n
This refers to delivering instructional experiences across wide-ranging scholarly fields. Doing so requires respecting the norms of these fields and acknowledging the various learners they serve and the extensive teaching methods they employ. The Universities of Wisconsin must recruit and retain faculty and instructional staff within the academic ecosystems of these fields while competing with hundreds of public and private institutions. Each institutional teaching workload policy shall define the specific market considerations that may permit such adjustments based on the needs of their students and the recruiting and retention circumstances at their institutions and the institutional approval process for recognizing market considerations.<\/p>\n
This refers to institutional obligations under Wis. Stat. \u00a7 36.22(12)<\/a> in the case of layoff, as well as programmatic and curricular changes that respond to student demand and may help avoid faculty layoffs.<\/p>\nPost-Tenure Review Remediation<\/h5>\n