CON Faculty Workload Guidelines

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Faculty Workload Guidelines Subsection: Appendix B2
Section - Information Originating Date: January, 2006
Responsible Reviewing Agency:
Executive Council
Revised: September, 2006
Revised: January, 2008
Revised: August, 2009
Revised: August, 2010
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12 month faculty

50% teaching: usually 4 - 5 courses per year. For graduate clinical, one clinical group is equal to 10 students assigned to preceptors.
30% scholarship: teaching, research, or practice
20% service / funded practice

Teaching assignments may be altered based on workload considerations, for example:

  1. Submission of a grant
  2. Substantial grant or practice funding
  3. Special service, e.g., special university, community, or CON task force
  4. Cross campus course coordination or area coordinator
  5. Developing a new course
  6. Amount of scholarship, service, or funded practice

    Note: Approximate number of students in a master’s course is 30 and a doctoral course is 15 before assigning a GA for assistance, generating a new section, or assigning additional faculty to assist.

Professional service is important to the university and community. Faculty are asked to participate in service activities at about 20% of FTE. As rank progresses from assistant, associate, to full professor, the level of service changes; for example, one progresses from a task force within the College to higher level University service and from a committee member to committee chair.

The following are examples of service activities:
Committees within the CON or University
Professional service to community groups
Service to local, regional, national, international professional organizations
Holding a leadership position in a professional organization