The current contract provides that a faculty member may teach up to 18 credit hours a year, with a maximum of 12 in one semester (VIII,5). This was intended to improve the inflexibility of the past contracts (which limited faculty to 9 hours per semester) for faculty in departments with classes other than three credit hours. However, it should be noted that the administration insisted on hour limits. P-fac did not want specified limits. There is therefore no such thing as a “P-fac waiver” to allow a faculty member to teach extra hours.
The 18 hour limit does not include summer or J-term classes.
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