CSU proposal Article 20 August 18, 2014 20.3 a. Members of the bargaining unit shall not be required to teach an excessive number of contact hours, assume an excessive student load, or be assigned an unreasonable workload or schedule. To assist new probationary faculty employees with establishing their programs of research, scholarship, and creative activity and carrying out other activities that would enable them to meet the requirements for retention, tenure, and promotion, the CSU agrees to provide reductions in teaching assignments during the first two years of the probationary period as follows: i. Probationary faculty employees hired in 2013/14 shall be assigned a maximum of twenty-one (21) direct weighted teaching units (WTU)1 (semester campus) or thirty-two (32) direct weighted teaching units (WTU) (quarter campus) in the 2014/15/ academic year. ii. Probationary faculty employees hired in 2014/15 and 2015/16 shall be assigned a maximum of eighteen (18) direct weighted teaching units (semester campus) or twenty-four (24) twenty-eight (28) direct weighted teaching units WTU (quarter campus) per academic year during the first two years of the probationary period. iii. Probationary faculty employees hired in 2016/17 shall be assigned a maximum of eighteen (18) direct weighted teaching units (semester campus) or twenty-four (24) twenty-eight (28) direct weighted teaching units WTU (quarter campus) in the 2016/17 academic year. iv. A campus may further reduce teaching assignments below these maximums. Nothing in this section is intended to reduce the amount of assigned time that a campus may have already agreed to provide to a probationary faculty member. b. 1 In the assignment of workload, consideration shall be given at least to the following factors: graduate instruction, online instruction, activity classes, laboratory courses, supervision, distance learning, sports, and directed study. Consideration for adjustments in workload shall be given to at least the following: class size/number of students; course and curricular redesign; preparation for substantive changes in instructional methods, including development of online and hybrid courses; research, scholarly, and creative Direct weighted teaching units are understood to include weighted teaching units assigned for classroom instruction, supervision, and assigned time in codes 11 (Excess Enrollments), 15 (Non-traditional Instruction), 16 (In-service Training for K-12 School Personnel), 17 (Credit by Examination/Evaluation) and 18 (Instructional Support of Graduate Students). CSU proposal Article 20 August 18, 2014 activities; advising; student teacher supervision; thesis supervision; supervision of fieldwork; service learning; student success initiatives; assessment and accreditation activities; and service on a department, college, or University committees. c. (status quo) 20.3.d For fiscal years 2014/15, 2015/16, and 2016/17, the CSU will provide a pool of $1.3 million, allocated based on campus full-time equivalent students (FTES), to provide assigned time to faculty employees who are engaged in activities that support the CSU’s priorities but who are not otherwise receiving an adjustment in workload to reflect their effort. Assigned time from this pool may be awarded for student mentoring, advising, and outreach, especially as these activities support underserved and/or underrepresented students; the development and implementation of highimpact educational practices; curricular redesign intended to improve student access and success; service to the department, college, university, or community that goes significantly beyond the normal expectations of all tenure-track faculty; and assignment to courses where increases to enrollment have demonstrably increased workload. Each campus shall develop procedures for the use of the funds, with the following limitations. i. Individual faculty members may submit requests to the appropriate administrator for consideration for support. The determination as to whether to provide assigned time shall be made by the appropriate administrator after consultation with the department chair or designee and/or the individual faculty member. ii. Assigned time from this pool shall be available to temporary faculty as well as tenure-track faculty. iii. Faculty members already receiving assigned time for the same general category of activity (e.g. assigned time for excess enrollments, assigned time for committee service) shall not be eligible for support from this pool. iv. If awards of assigned time are made too late to provide workload relief in the academic term in which the activities were performed, assigned time may be used in a later term in the same academic year, consistent with campus business needs. v. In the case of requests by tenure-track faculty, in no case shall assigned time be provided for service activities that fall within the normal expectations of all tenure-track instructional faculty. CSU proposal Article 20 August 18, 2014 Campuses shall expend all funds allocated to them under this program. Each campus shall provide an accounting of expenditures for this program for the prior fiscal year by no later than November 1 of the subsequent year. For accounting purposes, costs of assigned time shall be calculated based on the minimum salary for assistant professor.