Appropriate Faculty Workload
Drafted by Charles Delman and Barbara Lawrence, Eastern Illinois University

WHEREAS appropriate faculty workloads are necessary to promote academic excellence; and

WHEREAS the creation of new knowledge and ideas through research and creative activity offers great benefit to society; and

WHEREAS involvement in research or creative activity in oneÕs field enhances a professorÕs ability to teach students, both undergraduate and graduate, to think, communicate, and succeed in that field; and

WHEREAS involvement in research or creative activity ensures that a professor remains current in her/his field; and

WHEREAS a professorÕs mentoring of student research, both undergraduate and graduate, greatly enhances and deepens that studentÕs educational experience; and

WHEREAS such mentoring of students requires that the professor also be engaged in research or creative activity; and

WHEREAS the production of original research or creative activity is among the expectations required for tenure and promotion at most, if not all, of the member institutions served by UPI;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that UPI work to ensure that the faculty be assigned teaching duties ranging from 6-9 contact hours per week in order to encourage and maintain active engagement in the production of research or creative activities;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in order to ensure that adequate time is assigned to research and creative activity, UPI work to guarantee that the average teaching load should be no more that nine hours of contact hours per week.

REFERRED TO EXECUTIVE BOARD Oct. 19, 2002