Workload
Graduate Center faculty members, including all Executive Officers, are expected to fulfill an annual assignment of six units. Distinguished Professors throughout the University receive a one-course reduction in assignment each semester, resulting in a Graduate Center assignment of four units annually.
Each Graduate Center faculty member must submit (with the approval of the Executive Officer) a Faculty Workload Report each semester to the Office of the Provost. All CUNY colleges, including the Graduate Center, are required to submit faculty workload data each semester to CUNY's central administration.
A unit is defined in several ways:
A course taught anywhere within
The City University of
New York: A course taught by a Graduate Center faculty member anywhere in the University is a unit, and
all courses are equated without reference to the credit hours involved. To count as a unit, a course must have a course number; a student must be able to register in it and have
it appear on the transcript.
A course taught by a single instructor (apart from U900 and
independent study) must have a minimum enrollment of five students. Non matriculants are counted in the total, but auditors are not. A team-taught course requires a minimum of five
enrollments per instructor (GC or campus-based). For example, a team-taught course involving two instructors requires a minimum enrollment of ten students.
Five or more students enrolled in independent study or U900: Enrollment in independent doctoral study and U900 is counted as
0.2 units; 5 or more enrollments make a complete unit. Independent study or dissertation enrollments never add up to more than one unit at the GC, just as courses do not vary in
unit terms depending on enrollment.
Provost-approved administrative assignments: Throughout the University, administrative
assignments require explicit authorization from the college provost. For example, the Graduate Center Provost obtains individual approval from the provost of the college involved for every
assignment of a college faculty member as a deputy executive officer or a center director. Likewise, the Provost must give approval for all such assignments for Graduate Center
appointments prior to the semester for which they are planned. Requests for administrative assignments should be submitted in advance to the Office of the Provost by the
Executive Officer of the faculty member's program. Submission of the request is understood to be an endorsement of the request by the Executive Officer.
Sponsored research that involves released time for the faculty member: Depending
on the percentage of released time involved, one or more units may be "released."
Throughout the University, sponsored research is considered part of an individual's assignment only if the grant or contract involves a budget for released
time for the individual. Alternative arrangements require explicit college approval for a portion of the individual's assignment to be calculated in the cost of the sponsored project as
University cost-share.
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