Assigned Time Codes – Definitions & Uses
Code Number(s) | Code Description | Chancellor's Office Definition | Description to Use | Note |
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11 | Excess Enrollments | a. For classes with census date enrollment of between 75 and 120 and exceptional workload, a graduate assistant or student assistant may be allocated. b. For classes with census date enrollment over 120, a graduate assistant, a student assistant, or an additional 3 WTU may be assigned. A FACULTY MEMBER SHALL NOT BE GRANTED ASSIGNED WTU FOR MORE THAN ONE CLASS WITH EXCESS ENROLLMENTS |
List qualifying course(s) and section(s). |
Appropriate Uses:
Release time for enrollments of 120 or more students. Not Appropriate Uses: Release time for enrollments under 120 students. |
12 | New Course Preparations | A faculty member may be given assigned time WTU for preparation of courses never before taught by that particular faculty member, if courses actually taught include two or more such new preparations. | List qualifying course(s) and section(s). |
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14 | Course or Supervision Overload | A faculty member may be given assigned time WTU’s equal to course or supervision overload earned in a prior fiscal year, provided that calendar considerations so necessitate and the faculty member has not been present for the full preceding academic year. | List qualifying course(s), section(s) and semester taught. |
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15 | Non-Traditional Instruction | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for activities involving instruction and evaluations, which include such activities as modularized instruction, self-paced instruction, team teaching/cluster courses, thematic projects, open laboratory, sponsored experimental learning or other community activities, writing adjunct, mediated instruction (involving computers, television, and/or other media devices), and peer instruction. These activities typically do not involve a single instructor regularly meeting a group of students in an assigned classroom or laboratory setting. | List Activitity (ies) |
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16 | In-Service Training for K-12 School Personnel | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for activities involving in-service training for K-12 school personnel. Typically, the activities are provided on the school site using a variety of instructional modes and do not necessarily involve an instructor regularly meeting a group of students in an assigned classroom or laboratory setting on a campus. | List course or activity. |
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17 | Credit by Examination/Evaluation | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for activities that give primary emphasis to the evaluation of a student's knowledge and skills rather than upon the instructional process by which the knowledge and skills are acquired. Such activities include: a. Credit by evaluation of prior experiential learning (e.g. based upon evaluation of a portfolio of materials). b. Credit by examination (where the examination is generated and evaluated in whole or in part by the campus), including comprehensive and challenge examinations. The characteristics of evaluation activities that should be treated as part of the regular instructional program involve: 1) regularly enrolled students, and 2) a substantial effort on the part of the faulty member to perform any of the following tasks:
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List assignment(s) | Appropriate Uses:
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18 | Instructional Support of Graduate Students | A faculty member may be given assigned time for special graduate student testing duties; in particular, for conducting comprehensive examinations in fulfillment of foreign language requirements. | List graduate testing duties |
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21 | Special Instructional Programs | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for: a. Participation in a team-teaching effort. The total assigned and earned WTU associated with a team-taught course may not exceed the WTU generated by the course multiplied by the number of faculty members teaching the course. In addition, no individual faculty member may be given more WTU, both earned and assigned, then the course generates. b. Program and tape production for instructional television. c. Liaison duties among multiple sections of the same course. |
List qualifying course(s) and section(s). |
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22 | Instructional Experimentation or Innovation, or Instructionally related research | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for: a. Development and implementation of experimental programs involving:
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List activity, course(s) or research. If grant, list grant number and/or description. |
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23 | Instruction-Related Services | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for his/her services related to college clinics, study skill centers, farms, art galleries, and other campus institutions and facilities which are ancillary to the instruction program. | List assignment |
Appropriate Uses:
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31 | Advising Responsibilities | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for:
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List advising responsibilities |
Appropriate Uses:
Responsibilities for advising students:
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32 | Instruction-Related Committee Assignments | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for:
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List committee assignment/participation level. |
Appropriate Uses
Committee assignments such as:
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33 | Curricular Planning or Studies | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for:
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List assignment(s). |
Appropriate Uses:
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34 | Accreditation Responsibilities | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for accreditation responsibilities. | List accreditation agency and assignment. |
Appropriate Uses: Coordination/supervision of accreditation efforts at the department, program and/or university level. (e.g. WASC) |
35 | Instruction-Related Facilities Planning | A faculty member may be given assigned WTU for duties related to planning of instructional facilities. | List assignment. |
Appropriate Uses: Classroom/facility design and renovation. |
36 | Probationary Faculty Activities | New probationary faculty may be given assigned WTU for establishing their programs of research, scholarship and/or creative activities, and carrying out other activities that would support them in meeting the requirements for retention, tenure and promotion (pursuant to CBA 20.36). |
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Appropriate Uses:
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37 | Exceptional Service Level Activities | A faculty member engaged in exceptional levels of service (pursuant to provision CBA 20.37). | List service assignment. |
Appropriate Uses:
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41 | CFA Activities | Each CFA campus Chapter President and each of four CFA statewide officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer) shall be granted a reduction in workload, without loss of compensation, of up to three (3) WTU on a semester campus, or four (4) WTU on a quarter campus, per academic term. | List CFA title. |
Appropriate Uses
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