APPENDIX E:
FACULTY LOAD CALCULATION FOR TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
Faculty loads are calculated by the School of Music in the area of teaching in such a way that documentation of faculty effort and comparisons across areas can occur easily.
The typical apportionment of duty in the GKSOM for tenured or tenure-leading faculty is teaching (60%), research/creative activity (30%), and service (10%). In the discussion below, the phrase “full load” refers to the teaching part of the apportionment at the typical 60% level.
NOTE: Not every important faculty responsibility is given a separate, discreet calculation of effort. For example, assignment as an administrative Area Head is counted as service. Further, all faculty members are expected to guide undergraduate and graduate-level independent study projects (e.g., MUSC 398, MUSC 498 & 499, MUSC 898), serve on graduate students' supervisory committees, and guide graduate and undergraduate student theses. Applied faculty are expected to oversee their students's recitals, and attend juries. None of these important teaching responsibilities receives specific load credit.
The “units of measure” for various kinds of teaching are as follows:
APPLIED
Full applied teaching load = 18 majors per semester (or 2 x 18 = 36 majors per year),
where "majors" are PhD, DMA, MM, BM, BA, or BME students taking one hour-long lesson per week.
For applied faculty, the number of applied majors is multiplied by .0166:
2 x 18 x .0166 = .5976, which is close enough to .60
Minors and elective students, who take half-hour lessons, are counted individually as the equivalent of half a major, thus each is .5 x .0166 = .0083
In terms of time load (here, "contact hours" or "face time" or "clock time"), a full applied load is 2 x 15 wks x 18 hrs per week = 2 x 270 hrs per semester = 540 hours per year.
For applied faculty who also teach classroom classes, each 3-credit, 3-hour class is the equivalent of 3 majors. Thus, a full teaching load is one class plus 15 majors, or two classes plus 12 majors, or 3 classes plus 9 majors.
ACADEMIC
Full academic teaching load = five three-credit classes (225 contact hours)
For academic faculty, the basis of load is the following: teaching a course which meets once a week for one hour for 15 weeks in a semester, where the instructor has 100% responsibility, is given .04 load credit.
Thus, for example,
each two-credit academic class computes as 2 x .04 = .08
each three-credit class computes as 3 x .04 = .12
and the normal full load of five three-credit classes computes as 5 x 3 x .04 = .60
NOTE: A faculty member who teaches multiple sections of the same class or teaches material prepared by another faculty member (as is the case for multiple sections of undergraduate theory) may receive two thirds credit (rather than full credit) for teaching the additional course. Thus, for the second section of a three-credit course, the faculty member would receive 2 x .04 = .08 rather than 3 x .04 = .12 load credit.
Ballet and Modern Dance classes are 2-credit classes that meet for three studio hours per week; they are give a .12 load weight.
NOTE: Using the "per student" multiplier (.0166) in a three-credit class, the full load credit (.12) computes out as a minimum of somewhere between 7 (.116) and 8 (.133) students; for faculty who teach academic classes with an enrollment of 6 or fewer students, faculty load may be calculated on a per student basis (.0166 x number of students) at the discretion of the Director; this is regularly done, for example, for the small, specialized Lit & Ped classes [MUSC 462]).
NOTE ALSO: The common assumption in higher education governing load, which we operate under here, is that each classroom hour is credited with a further hour of preparation and an hour of grading ("prep, teach, grade"). Thus the "time load" is three times the "face time" in class (i.e., nine hours per week for a three-credit class). "Time load" is the basis of comparison with the applied studio teacher's contact hours ("face time"). That time load is 3 x 225 contact hours or 675 hours per year.
ENSEMBLE
A full load of ensemble teaching = 3 semester-long five-hours-per week (250 minute) ensembles (2+1 or 1+2).
Ensemble load is calculated on the basis of direct contact hours, i.e. "face time" (and not credit hour productivity); thus, on this basis, smaller and larger ensembles are counted equivalently.
Some ensembles meets 5 hours per week (to be more precise, 250 minutes), or 75 hours per 15-week semester. Each 1 hour a week (15 hours a semester) of contact time receives a .04 weighting, so that for the ensembles meeting for 75 hours a semester (5 hours per week x 15 weeks), the load weight is 5 x .04 = .20, and 3 ensembles x .20 = .60.
Contact hours are therefore 3 x 75 = 225 per year for a faculty member who is exclusively an ensemble director of a 250-minutes-per-week ensemble. A time load calculation taking into account the preparation of new scores for each semester's concerts, plus dress rehearsals and so forth (equivalent to the time load factored into classroom instruction), raises the total to a number comparable to the 540 hrs of face time for applied teachers and the 675 hrs of time load for classroom teachers.
Similarly, for an ensemble meeting three hours per week (to be more precise, 150 minutes), the load weight is .12.
SOME EXAMPLES OF FRACTIONAL NEGOTIATED TEACHING LOADS
- Field experience supervision: each 12 visits = a one-credit-hour academic course = .04
- Student Teaching = each 12 observations = .04 (regardless of # of students at site)
- Opera Direction: direction of a major opera = one half of one semester's load, thus 0.5 x 0.5 x .60 = .15, calculated as 9 applied students = 9 x .0166 = .15
- Beginning Conducting: 1-credit class meeting two hours per week = 0.08
- Chamber Music Coaching: each ensemble = 0.5-cr-hr academic course = 0 or 1 + 2.5 x .04 per group = .02
- BME Skills classes instruction [e.g., Strings] = 2 cr = 2 x .04 = .08
- Aural Skills (Musicianship Lab) = 1.33 x .04 = .0532
- Literature & Pedagogy (MUSC 462), if below 7 students = no. of students x .0166
- Conducting a MUCO 344 ensemble = .04
- Convocation (UG) (MM) = .04
- Colloquium (DMA) = .04
- Advising (ca. 30 majors) = .04 per semester
- Senior Assessment in Music (MUSC 64) = .5 x .04 = .02
The following are sample examples of faculty load calculations for “academic only,” “applied only,” "academic/applied” and “ensemble only” faculty.
Prof. Academic Only
Term 081 History of Baseball Music MUSC 4/844 3 cr [.12]
Term 081 Intro to Symphonic Study MUSC 846 2 cr [.08]
Term 081 How to Use Footnotes MUSC 888 1 cr [.04]
Term 081 Canines and Ocarinas MUSC 389 3 cr [.12]
Term 082 History of Football Music MUSC 4/845 3 cr [.12]
Term 082 Notation Review MUSC 847 3 cr [.12]
TOTAL [.36 +.24 = .60]
Prof. Applied Only
Term 081 Applied Ocarina MUAP x44 -- 14 majors [.2333] 4 minors [.0333]
Term 081 Ocarina Lit&Ped MUSC 4/862x -- 4 students [.0664]
SUBTOTAL [.3330]
Term 082 Applied Ocarina MUAP x44 -- 14 majors [.2333] 4 minors [.0333]
SUBTOTAL [.2666]
TOTAL [.5996]
Prof. Applied with diverse assignments
Term 081 Applied Pennywhistle MUAP x46 3 majors [.0498] 2 minors [.0166]
Term 081 Class Instr. Pennywhistle MUAP 244 (semester-long = 3 cr equiv.) [.12]
Term 081 Chamber Coaching MUAP 352 (one group) [.02]
Term 081 Notation I MUSC 144 (2 cr equiv) [.08]
Term 081 Notation I Lab MUSC 144A (1.33 cr equiv) [.0532]
SUBTOTAL [.3396]
Term 082 Applied Pennywhistle MUAP x46 3 majors [0.0498] no minors
Term 082 Class Instr. Pennywhistle MUAP 244 (semester-long = 3 cr equiv.) [.12]
Term 082 Notation II Lab (2 cr equiv.) [.08]
SUBTOTAL [.2498]
TOTAL [.5894]
Prof. One Large Ensemble
Term 081 Accordion Ensemble MUDC 2/444 (5 cr equiv) [.20]
Term 081 Accordion Ens. Conducting MUSC 944 2 students [.0332]
Term 081 Accordion Ens. Literature MUSC 945D 2 students [.0332]
Term 081 Advanced Conducting MUED 374 (2 cr. equiv) [.08]
SUBTOTAL [.3464]
Term 082 Accordion Ensemble MUDC 2/444 (5 cr equiv) [.20]
Term 082 Accordion Ens. Conducting MUSC 944 1 sudent [.0166]
Term 082 Accordion Ens. Literature MUSC 945E 2 students [.0332]
SUBTOTAL [.2498]
TOTAL [ .5962]