This document outlines the faculty workload policy of the Department of Criminal Justice. Workload encompasses the totality of a faculty member's contributions to the university as a work place. Members of a university faculty are expected to devote time to teaching, academic achievement, and service. Further, each of these duties are important in varying degrees at different stages of a faculty member's career.
Academic achievement is evidenced through scholarship and professional growth and development.
Scholarship includes production of refereed research articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, review essays, research reports, funded grant proposals, curriculum and course development, and service as a consultant on instruction, research, and manuscripts. Service duties include service to the University's academic community and the public. It is the overall balance in these three areas over the career, and not sectional or annual reviews which should form the basis of the chair's decisions regarding workload. However, if scholarship is not evident, then reductions in workload would be more difficult to justify and the faculty member may be expected to teach more than the normal teaching load as defined in this document. For example, tenure-track faculty who are not yet tenured are expected to place the bulk of their efforts on becoming an effective teacher, developing a publication record, and actively participating in one or two college or departmental committees.