Process for Assigning Teaching.

The School aims to develop a teaching schedule sufficiently in advance to allow faculty to plan their activities and to meet the needs of students. The schedule will be developed according to the following process:

A. June 20xx – Create the next two years’ schedule, i.e., 20xx+1 and 20xx+2 course schedule

The Associate Dean for Education works with the registrar and director of educational initiatives to prepare a two year course schedule. The course schedule will include the ideal number of sections of each course that must be offered each semester (spring, summer I, summer II and fall) along with optimal timing (morning, afternoon, evening). Each course will be tagged as “required” or not. Required courses include core courses and required first-level certificate courses for the MPH, required courses in MA, MS, PhD, DrPH and stand-alone certificates. If a course is one of several options available to meet a requirement, it is not tagged as required. The course schedules will be distributed to chairs and center directors for teaching assignments.

B. July 20xx – Prepare draft teaching schedule

Chairs and center directors are responsible for assigning faculty to their respective departmental courses (i.e., courses with BS, EH, EP, GH, LW, MC, PM, and SB designations) and also to PH courses that were originally proposed to the Education Committee by their department.

Chairs and center directors are to provide a list of faculty interested in teaching the integrated core courses for the MPH to the Associate Dean for Education. The Associate Dean for Education will then then work to match faculty to specific sections, balancing preferences, commitments, etc.

C. Chairs and center directors will assign faculty to teach courses based on the following principles.

  • 50% of each faculty member’s teaching load should meet the needs of the school (required courses) and the remaining courses in-line with the faculty member’s own area(s) of interest.
  • Chairs should ensure course assignments are balanced in terms of time of day and time of year to meet the demand of students.
  • Chairs must give qualified and available primary faculty (from any department) the priority for teaching, even if adjunct faculty are available and well-suited for the course.

D. August 20xx– Finalize teaching schedule for next two years, i.e., 20xx+1 and 20xx+2

The Associate Dean for Education will meet with department chairs and center directors to finalize the teaching schedule for 20xx+1 and 20xx+2. The 20xx+1 schedule will then be added into AFR system for 20xx+1 reviews.