Appendix D - Faculty Credit Overload and Underload Policy

1. No faculty member shall carry a semester credit/contact load greater than sixteen (16) hours or one (1) overload section. Exceptions to this limit require the prior approval of the Dean.

2. Overload may be paid at the prevailing overload credit rate or carried into the next regular semester (banked) at which time it must be counted as part of the regular load. This statement accomplishes two things: (1) Overload will not accumulate from semester to semester because the previous semester's overload will be counted as part of the next semester's regular load. Should the faculty member again teach an overload in that following semester, the overload will be a "new" overload for that semester. However, the amount of overload is governed by provision #1; (2) Overload credits should never equal more than four (4) credits or one (1) section.

Underloaded Faculty

1. Underloaded credits during a Fall or Spring semester must be balanced before the end of the next Fall or Spring semester, respectively. For example, if you are underloaded in Fall 1999, you must balance out the underload with an overload in Spring 2000, Summer Sessions I or II of 1999 or in Fall 1999. A similar example would hold if your initial underload occurred in Spring 2000, in which case you would have to balance it out before the end of Spring 2001.

2. Failure to balance the underload may result in a prorated salary during that next corresponding semester. Using the example immediately above, if your underload from Fall 1999 was not balanced out in 2000 Spring or Summer Sessions and was still not balanced in Fall 2000, then your salary for Fall 2000 would be prorated.

3. Underload can be balanced during a Summer Session or a Winter Intersession. This statement gives every faculty member with an underload in any regular semester, the maximum flexibility and opportunity to balance the underload before any proration occurs.

4. If a course is available in another college or on a campus other than the faculty member's "home" campus and is in the faculty member's discipline or in other areas in which he or she has taught the faculty member is expected to teach that course in the semester needed.

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