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Instructional Workload Policy

A System for Reporting Faculty Instructional Effort August 2005 report of the Task Force for the Implementation of Workload Reporting Policy. [More] Instructional Activity at UCSC Annual reports prepared by the Office of Planning and Budget. [More]

Instructional workload policies support several campus objectives:

• Managing teaching resources to sustain curriculum capacity;
• Maintaining a commitment of ladder faculty to undergraduate education;
• Ensuring overall faculty workload equity; and
• Complying with UC Office of the President commitments made to the State (governor and legislature.

Ladder rank faculty instructional activity is reported annually by the campus to UC Office of the President.  Departmental policies are also submitted on an intermittent basis.

UC Santa Cruz Principles for Department Instructional Workload Policy

Updated in 2008, these principles articulate the campus overarching policy and guidelines for divisions and departments.

UC Santa Cruz Department Instructional Workload Policy Guidelines

Department policy guidelines describe teaching expectations presented in the context of the department’s overall mission.

Course Audit Reports

These annual reports document the number courses taught by ladder rank (tenure track) faculty.