Queens College of the City University of New York

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To:	Deans and Department Chairs
From:	Evangelos J. Gizis, Interim Provost
Date:	2002 February 20
Re:	Undergraduate Teaching Workload Averaging
Cc:	President Russell Hotzler, Jane Denkensohn, Esq.

 

 

 

Please be aware of the following provision of the 1996-2000 PSC/CUNY collective bargaining agreement describing the averaging of undergraduate teaching contact hour workloads over a three-year period. Note that the Office of Faculty and Staff Relations has informed me that this workload averaging does not apply to summer sessions. Thank you for considering these rules in making work assignments.

 

The provision reads as follows:

 

In order to avoid the loss of teaching hours due to difficulties in scheduling, the annual undergraduate teaching contact hour workload shall be managed over a three-year period. The intent of this provision is to ensure that classroom contact hours not scheduled in one year because the courses assigned to the faculty member do not permit an exact correspondence with the stated workload, may be scheduled in a subsequent year within the three-year period. Calculated over the three-year period, the average undergraduate teaching contact hour workload of every faculty member shall equal the hours specified above.