Faculty Handbook – Workload Policy

approved by Provost Council, Sept. 2004

Faculty workload at TCU includes teaching, research and creative activities, professional service including administrative tasks, advising and counseling students, and other assignments requested by University officials. In general, assignment of a teaching load involves consideration of variables, which include but are not limited to the number of sections, number of preparations, class enrollments (i.e., credit hours generated), course level, contact hours, and similar factors. Workload, including teaching load, for any specific faculty member is highly variable and depends on specific assignments by appropriate University officials. Normal teaching load is defined as equivalent to 12 semester credit hours during each semester of the academic year.

The main sections of this policy are:

A. Emergency Situations

B. MLA Teaching Assignments

C. Exempt Staff/Academic Administrator Teaching Assignments

D. Merited Faculty Leave with Pay

E. Sick Leave

F. Zero-Teaching Load

Access the TCU Faculty Workload Policy here. 

The policy was transferred from the 2022 Faculty and Staff Handbook and then reviewed and approved by a special committee of the Faculty Senate in July 2023.