POLICY ON EDUCATIONAL EFFORT OF NON-CLINICAL FACULTY

Please be advised that the referenced policy is now in effect.

The salient points relevant to reappointment, senior appointments, and promotion are:

*Educational effort outside one's own research program equivalent to a solely-taught one-quarter course (e.g., 10 weeks X 3 one-hour lectures per week) in the year before reappointment as assistant professor, and thereafter, is the TARGET. "Target" means guideline and NOT requirement or quota.

*This same target applies to faculty in clinical departments who have no clinical activity. Such faculty, however, may meet this target through a combination of teaching in the classroom/instructional laboratory and other educational activity. It is expected that such faculty will be responsive to needs for classroom/laboratory teaching in their areas of educational competence, but need not invent classes when none are needed. Reappointment will require SOME teaching outside of one's own research program.

*This modification is in token for the expectation of greater grants and salary recovery targets for faculty in clinical departments who have no clinical activity. Where these expectations do not apply, such faculty will have the same educational expectations as for faculty in basic science departments.

*To count towards reappointment and promotion, educational activity must be evaluated. Such evaluation is a routine when faculty are sole or principal instructors in a formal course. Where educational activity is not evaluated in this way, the department continues to have the responsibility for obtaining valid evaluations of educational activity

*Chairs continue to have the discretion to assign teaching responsibilities that deviate from this target, either above or below. Doing so will require justification at the time of COAP and COROAP review. Chairs continue to have the obligation, however, to provide their faculty with the opportunity to demonstrate excellence in a signficant program of education, which is required for reappointments and promotion.

*COAP and COROAP will be instructed to adjust their expectations accordingly as they provide their advice, and consider the merit of chairs' justifications for deviation from the target. As part of this process, the "Education Deans" are routinely asked whether faculty have been responsive to needs for classroom/laboratory teaching in their areas of educational competence; feedback from these deans continues to be part of the information considered by the Divisional Dean and Provost in making their recommendation and decision, respectively.