The institutional head is responsible for assuring that all teaching assistants are carefully supervised. For example, an institution may set individual minimum requirements, consistent with these minimum guidelines, for a specific school or college. It is the responsibility of each institutional head to require teaching in excess of the minimum where such teaching is necessary to meet the institution's obligations to its students. Each institution will establish additional standards as necessary in accordance with its role and scope, so long as it satisfies the minimum given herein, to meet the instructional obligations of the institution 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 teaching load greater than the minimum.
State law requires the adoption of rules concerning faculty academic workloads.
Workload for U. T. System faculty members is expressed in terms of classroom teaching, teaching equivalencies and presidential credits for assigned activities. 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. Practicum and Individual Instruction.