Full-time faculty are expected to fulfill a twelve-hour assignment each semester, as reflected in the Faculty Service Report required by the Ohio Board of Regents.  Consonant with the Policy Statement on Faculty Assignments, this responsibility can be met by a twelve-hour teaching load or an approved combination of teaching, specific research/scholarship/creative activities, service and/or administrative assignments. A minimum of 750 minutes of class contact time is required for every credit hour per semester; 1500 minutes of contact time is required for each credit hour of lab.

Faculty assignments will be made at the department/school level in accordance with the unit's workload policy reflective of its mission. Normally, a faculty member on a full-time teaching appointment with scholarship and service expectations would teach an average of three courses per semester. This, of course, depends upon the credit and contact hours of the courses, in combination with other academic responsibilities. However, even in Ph.D. programs, the teaching assignment should be no less than two courses each semester.

Graduate assistants and others on fractional assignments are expected to teach loads in proportion to their contract FTE.  Instructors, part-time staff or others without administrative or other special duties should be assigned on the basis of the twelve-hour standard load for full-time teaching.

Requests for overloads or for additional staff to meet exceptional demands will be considered only if all regular staff have been assigned in accordance with the above guidelines.