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Enrollment and Instructional Activity Reporting Handbook INTERIM VERSION PENDING REVISED UC RULES ON REPORTING INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY POLICIES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY REPORTING (1) |
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The following policies guide campus reporting on both primary and independent study instructional activity for accountability
purposes. The policies are grouped so that they answer the following questions: What is included in "instructional activity"? How are classes assigned to instructional categories? Which instructors, departments, and levels are credited with the instruction? How are faculty FTE calculated and assigned to rank groups? 
What is included in "instructional activity"? Included Terms: The campus includes eligible courses in the Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters and the Fall and Spring semesters for the School of Law. Teaching credit for courses offered by the School of Law is multiplied by 1.5 when it is combined with quarter data. Included Courses: The campus includes in its report unit-bearing courses offered to state-supported general campus students. These include all general campus courses except those offered primarily to students in self-supporting programs and ROTC courses. The campus has also included undergraduate courses offered in health sciences subjects other than Nursing, because the majority of enrollments are by general campus students. |
Finally, because in a handful of cases the report includes the full FTE of faculty members who have only general campus instructional appointment but who also teach health science subjects (often as part of combined classes), the health sciences workload for these individuals will be included in the reports. Note that all state-funded general campus courses are included in the reports as either primary or independent study instruction, including those numbered 199, 596, 597, 598, and 599. Honors Sections: Honors sections are considered part of one combined course. A supplemental meeting for the honors students in the course, unless it carries extra units, is considered a secondary section even if it is conducted by the primary course instructor instead of a teaching assistant. Honors Tutorials: Honors tutorials are classified as independent study for purposes of reporting on instructional activity.
How are classes assigned to instructional categories? Course Categories: Through 2001-02, AIM used the applicable Office of the President Guidelines to divide courses into the two categories that are reported to the state in the annual instructional activity report. The categories were "primary" and "independent study". AIM classified courses that carried an activity type of "tutorial" in the student record system as independent study courses, and all others as primary courses. The number of students enrolled in the courses was not used to categorize a course. Secondary sections (usually carrying an activity type of "discussion" or "laboratory") were reported to the state as well in a separate category. The Task Force on Instructional Activity Reporting recommended that in future credit-bearing courses be classified as "faculty designed", "faculty directed", or "faculty-guided tutorial" offerings. Definitions for these categories are under discussion. |
