FLRG tri-chairs Ken Alfers, Zarina Blankenbaker, and Matt Hinckley,
presented the Faculty Load Review Group (FLRG) recommendation report and
supporting documentation (including the Work Group ALPHA, BRAVO, and CHARLIE recommendations)
to Chancellor May, Vice Chancellor Lonon, and Chief Talent Officer Susan Hall,
in May 2017. Specifically, the FLRG report recommended that lecture and lab
instruction be equalized in the calculation of full-time faculty load, that
class sizes be made more equitable by discipline and course across the District
according to discipline committee recommendations, and that compensation for coordinator/chair
duties be made more equitable across the District. Upon initial review, Dr. May
agreed the recommendations, if implemented, would bring about greater equity
and consistency in the calculation of full-time faculty load.
Dr. May also said he will have Boston Consulting Group
review the FLRG recommendations (and the Faculty
Hiring Process committee recommendations) in the context of efforts to
increase faculty diversity as well as the likely need to increase the overall
number of full-time faculty in the District and refine our compensation models
to retain faculty. Therefore, it is likely that any final decisions to
implement FLRG recommendations would take several months, depending on the time
frame of the work of the Boston Consulting Group.
Both the FLRG tri-chairs, and the Faculty Council, have
recommended to Dr. May that FLRG be recommissioned in 2017-2018 to help write
the guideline documents to implement the recommendations (should they
ultimately be accepted), and to study and recommend other ways to increase
equity in overall faculty work load, particularly in non-teaching institutional
service, differing telecommuting definitions and arrangements (particularly on-campus office hour and institutional service expectations for faculty who teach online for load), and professional
development experiences to promote range advancement.
While we counsel continued patience as we wait for the
Boston Consulting Group review to progress, we reiterate that Dr. May wants
faculty and instructional leaders to avail themselves of forthcoming
opportunities to engage with the Boston Consulting Group.
Previous Advance Blog posts on FLRG can be found at this link.
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