Teaching assistants shall be used only when given proper guidance and supervision to ensure quality instruction. A minimum faculty workload requirement equivalent to eighteen semester credit hours of instruction in organized classes each nine-month academic year is possible at the University of Texas at San Antonio only if the total institutional semester credit hours generated are sufficient to meet institutional obligations to the students and to operate effectively within the faculty salary resources available. Faculty members not actively involved in a program of research and publication or in equivalent academic service should typically carry a workload greater than the minimum.
State law requires the adoption of rules concerning faculty academic workloads.
Workload is expressed in terms of classroom teaching, teaching equivalencies and presidential credits for assigned activities. Classroom Teaching Equivalencies Graduate Instruction. One Semester credit hour of graduate instruction will be considered the equivalent of one and one-half semester credit hours of undergraduate instruction. One and one-half contact hours of instruction of regularly scheduled laboratory and clinical courses, physical activity courses, studio art, studio music instruction, and primary music performance organizations, such as ensembles and marching bands, for each week of a long term semester will be considered the equivalent of one semester credit hour of undergraduate instruction. Supervision of student teachers, clinical supervision, and intern supervision shall be credited such that 12 total student semester credit hours taught will be considered the equivalent of one semester credit hour.