Changes may be coming to faculty workload policy

As a faculty member, how do you feel about your workload? Do you feel the workload options in the current Faculty Workload Policy (www.unt.edu/vpaa_fy0203_fhb/II-c.html) meet faculty needs? Do you think there should be a teaching route that leads to tenure? What activities do you think justify a teaching load reassignment?

In the next few weeks faculty will receive a survey from the senate's Faculty Load Committee that will ask for input on these issues.

UNT President Norval Pohl has indicated his desire to take a new Faculty Workload Policy to the UNT Board of Regents for the board's approval in November 2003 (a summary transcript of his address to the Faculty Senate is available under "October Newsletter" at www.unt.edu/facsenate/current00.htm). A new policy could incorporate a modification of the current tenure track system to recognize the many roles of faculty as well as a change to faculty workloads.

Please, when you receive the survey, fill it out and return it, and encourage your colleagues to fill it out as well. Faculty input is very important.

Jeffrey Oxford, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, is chair of the UNT Faculty Senate. A Faculty Senate column runs in InHouse every other month.

Other web resources

• UNT Faculty Senate web site

Other featured articles in this issue

• Mean Green soars to grab bowl win
• UNT lays out plans for future expansion onto Eagle Point Golf Course property
• Beautification Committee continues work on campus appearance
• Staff survey indicates individual UNT groups place high priority on students, diversity
• Weather closing information
• Faculty Senate holds final meeting of 2002
• Success of holiday drives helps local families
• Special award recognizes longtime faculty member
• UNT departments move to new locations

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