The faculty activity analysis describes the time faculty spend in various professional activities. Faculty time is expressed in terms of hours or in terms of percent of the total work effort. Various forms of the analysis are discussed. Each form emphasizes categories of faculty time including: instruction, research, professional development, and…

Analyzes the success of a unit system, devised and implemented in the department of History at Princeton University, that recognizes the full complex of functions in allocating faculty time. (Editor)

This document presents the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems' (NCHEMS) faculty activity survey instrument and discusses the procedural questions involved in conducting an activity survey. Recommended procedures are given where appropriate. Some of the concerns confronting an institution that is initiating an activity survey…

Reports on the findings of a time budget of a university lecturer for 12 months and challenges the assumption that faculty work only 50.5 hours a week. Increasing bureaucratization of staff-student relationships has reduced the time available for faculty reading and research. (Author/PG)

To arrive at an equitable teaching load policy, the percentage of load allotted to each course should be identified. In addition, a table of appropriate basic class sizes should be designed so that unusual class sizes can be quantified and caculated into the percentage of load assigned for each course. (DC)

This document outlines the point-based faculty assignment classification system in effect at Whatcom Community College (Washington). The purpose of the point system is to provide an equitable and flexible means of compensating faculty members based on a system of assigning quantitative values to tasks. Teaching, which includes classroom…

Comparative staffing units quantify the direct instructional, related instructional, and related professional activities of university instructional faculty members. This method measures estimated faculty input, rather than output, and offers a number of advantages over the more traditional workload measures of credit hours, student credit hours,…

A survey concerning released time for faculty was conducted of all the community colleges in Maryland, Mount Vernon College in Washington, D. C., and Northern Virginia Community College. Practices concerning the following types of released time were investigated: department or division chairman; curriculum development; curriculum coordinator;…

The use of faculty activity data in higher education is discussed and the issue of whether the chairperson or the faculty member's estimates of how time was spent should determine resource expenditures is addressed. A historical review indicates that this type of data has been a concern of higher education for the past three decades. This…