coe-fac: Reminder: Instructional FTE Calculator Pilot Program

[Shaun Haskins]

Dear COE Faculty:

I hope that you had a productive, pleasant and regenerative summer! I'm writing today to offer a brief reminder that all instructional Career Track faculty (NTTF) in the COE are expected to work with their supervisors (Department Head or Program Director) to complete an estimate of their workload for this year using the FTE Calculator Tool and offer feedback via survey to the NTTF Workload Policy Development committee. This estimate should be completed by the end of October. I have copied and pasted the Dean's previous message (from June) on this topic below.

For quick reference: the NTTF workload policy and supporting documentation, including the FTE calculator tool, are all available here:

https://coedocs.uoregon.edu/confluence/display/NTTFWP/NTTF+Workload+Policy+Home

The survey to provide your feedback can be found at the link below:

https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_doqwEPreGvwDSgR

Regards, and thank you all for participating in this important policy development work.

Shaun Haskins
Executive Assistant to the Dean
College of Education
1215 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
541.346.1218


Dear COE Faculty:

Last Fall, a group of our colleagues developed a policy to guide and govern the composition of FTE for Career Track (the name I prefer over non-tenure track) instructional faculty within the COE. One of the comments I provided to them at the time that policy was submitted to the UO administration was that the FTE Calculator tool attached to it should receive further testing and vetting by the faculty at large to determine whether it serves the purposes the policy workgroup envisioned for it and whether there are ways that it could be refined to improve its accuracy.

As a result of my conversations with the workload policy development group, I have asked the academic department heads to perform a "test-run" estimation of FTE using the tool for each of their instructional career track faculty before the end of October 2015. The group has spent a generous amount of time developing resources to aid department heads, academic program coordinators, and Career Track Faculty in the use of this tool, as well as a survey to collect data on several aspects of its use.

In order to support our Career Track Faculty and the efforts of the workload committee, I would like to encourage all instructional Career Track faculty (NTTF) in the COE to follow the link below to learn more about the FTE Calculator and to take time to use the tool along with your supervisor (department head or program director) to create an estimate of FTE for your expected workload for the upcoming year, and then follow the second link below to provide feedback to the policy group once you have done so.

More information about the policy and the calculator tool, as well as the tool itself, can be found at:

https://coedocs.uoregon.edu/confluence/display/NTTFWP/NTTF+Workload+Policy+Home

Provide your feedback on the tool once you have used it with your supervisor via the survey below:

https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_doqwEPreGvwDSgR

I look forward to a discussion in the Fall about what this pilot effort tells us about the tool and our ongoing efforts to guarantee that the principles of equity and fairness are upheld in the distribution of workload within the College.

With gratitude to all who worked on these policies,

Randy

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