W. Va. Code R. § 135-45-3

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 135-45-3 - Faculty Workload Guidelines

3.1. Faculty is employed to perform instructional and other instructional related duties that meet the needs of the institution and the students it serves. The full-time instructional load for community and technical college faculty in West Virginia is to be fifteen credit hours or the equivalent per semester.

3.2. It is the responsibility of the president of the community and technical college, in consultation with faculty, to submit a faculty instructional load policy to the WV Council for Community and Technical College Education that reflects a faculty instructional load of fifteen credit hours or the equivalent per semester.

3.3. A faculty instructional load may consist of credit and non-credit instruction as part of the primary instructional load.

3.4. It is the responsibility of the president or provost to set equivalency rules for faculty instructional loads by determining how laboratory instruction, unusual instructional situations and other modes of direct instructional contact will be counted toward determining instructional loads.

3.5. When establishing an instructional load policy, consideration should be given to, among other issues, the following:

3.5.1. Types of courses, i.e. Lecture, laboratory, clinics;

3.5.2. Total contact hours per semester;

3.5.3. Section size;

3.5.4. Class preparation;

3.5.5. Coordinator and administrative equivalencies;

3.5.6. Programmatic accreditation requirements;

3.5.7. Summer school instructional load;

3.5.8. Instructional load equivalences unique to the individual institutions; and,

3.5.9. Geographic location of course delivery.

W. Va. Code R. § 135-45-3