Students are our first priority .
The purpose of a faculty workload policy is to ensure the continuing development and maintenance of an atmosphere for faculty which fosters enthusiasm, promotes productivity, and encourages teamwork while providing a total quality education through teaching, scholarship, and service. In keeping with the mission statement a student-centered curriculum provides the foundation for the College workload policy. Ultimately, this curriculum is designed to ensure that students continue to receive enthusiastic and enhanced classroom instruction with maximum opportunities for engaging in innovative student-instructor interaction within the classroom as well as quality educational and professional activities outside the formal classroom setting. In addition, the College workload policy recognizes that excellence in teaching cannot exist in the absence of scholarship and services. To excel in teaching, faculty are also required to meet their professional responsibilities in these complementary areas so as to continuously improve their expertise and answer the challenges of education in an increasingly interdependent and diverse global economy.