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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 (3) |
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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? How are faculty FTE calculated and assigned to rank groups? Instructor Rank Groups. The campus is required to report instruction by the rank of the instructor. The Office of the President publishes a list of the appointment title codes that belong to each group. In the past, campuses reported general campus workload for four rank groups, as well as total general campus workload. (Total workload was greater than the sum of the workload for the four groups, because it included activity of instructors with title codes not covered by the lists.) However, the rank groups obscured the fact that many of the non-listed title codes applied to instructors who had an active Senate title or were an academic administrator who also held a ladder faculty (without-salary) appointment. The system is working on create additional rank groups for lecturers with security of employment, academic administrators, and health sciences faculty. The four existing categories are shown below.
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Active Faculty FTE. Among the information that UC includes in the annual report on instructional activity is the average number of primary courses taught per active regular rank (essentially ladder rank) faculty FTE. This equals the total number of primary course teaching credits allocated to all active regular rank (group 1) faculty members, divided by the total active regular rank faculty. Both courses and faculty FTE are restricted to offerings for state-funded general campus students by general campus departments. Active faculty members are defined as individuals "paid in an instruction and research capacity and available to teach". Faculty members on full sabbatical status are excluded. "Active faculty FTE" is the sum of the "percent appointments" in general campus academic departments in the title codes classified as "Regular Rank and Equivalent " (group 1) for active faculty members. These appointments should be coded in the payroll system with a function "40"-state funded instruction and research. Faculty appointments that are coded in the payroll system as "function 44" -sponsored research-are excluded. Fund source for the appointment does not matter, so if faculty members paid from research grants remain in their ladder rank appointment with a standard "function 40" code – instruction and research – their appointment will be included in the campus active FTE calculation.
For More Information: See Data Definitions and Sources or the Glossary. Contact Caroline West, Director 6-8264. |
