Teaching Load Summary
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Description: Looks at the average teaching load per department over a period of years.
For the past several years, the Dean's office and the Faculty Senate have struggled with defining teaching loads at Gustavus for the purposes of determining overload situations and staffing allocations. Several ad hoc committees have looked into the matter, without resolution. At least since the 1992-1993 school year, the Registrar has tabulated “Faculty Load” data by department, including number of sections (or contact hours) taught, full time load (as determined by the department), enrollment, and enrollment per faculty. All of the data is confused by the various ways that we calculate and/or discuss teaching load; courses, contact hours, and combinations of the two. This has been (and currently is) the source of much frustration for the committees discussing the issue. Some have suggested that things would be better if only we used semester hours instead of courses as a measure, but this ignores the inherent differences in the courses we teach and the evaluation tools that we use.
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