Faculty Workload Reporting and Compliance
In accordance with Article 15 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), faculty workload is defined as the amount of teaching that a faculty member is required to do annually and how that teaching must be managed over time.
The College must report workload for all instructional faculty members to CUNY. The Office of Academic Administration is responsible for tracking and reporting workload data for all full-time faculty, adjuncts, and graduate assistants. Department chairs are responsible for approving workload for their full-time faculty and collaborating with their dean’s office and the Office of Academic Administration in the management of faculty workload in their departments. Each semester, the Office of Academic Administration sends workload reporting forms to all full-time faculty members. The full-time faculty member, department chair, and dean are responsible for reviewing and confirming that the workload information listed on the form is accurate.
In accordance with the workload settlement agreement between PSC and CUNY dated December 8, 2017, annual workload will be reduced by three contact hours at senior and community colleges. The reduction will be phased in over a three-year period, one contact hour per year effective AY 2018-2019 (Fall 2018). Therefore, in AY 2020-2021 (effective Fall 2020), annual workload for full-time faculty in professorial titles, clinical professors, and distinguished lecturers will be 18 hours. Full-time lecturers and instructors will have an annual workload of 24 hours. For faculty who hold substitute appointments in these titles, the annual workload is three hours greater. In relation, in accordance with the Workload Settlement Agreement, Appendix A of the PSC-CUNY contract, faculty who have a teaching deficit or surplus in any given year may average that workload over a three-year period. Any excess or deficit in regular classroom hours that cannot be resolved over the course of a single academic year must be resolved within the subsequent two academic years. All workload accruals must be used and all workload deficits must be erased before the expiration of the three-year cycle. Faculty who are some type of leave are given an additional year to resolve any imbalance accumulated. The chair should assign teaching in such way that affected faculty achieve workload balance within that three-year period.
For full-time faculty, fall and spring semesters and the winter intersession are included in calculating annual workload hours.
Adjunct faculty appointments are subject to contractual limitations as governed by section 15.2 of the PSC-CUNY collective bargaining agreement and have university restrictions during the summer terms.