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Banner Faculty Load Module is Operational
The Banner Faculty Workload Module in Banner is operational, starting with the fall 2003 term. The module provides the information the colleges need to ensure more efficient and more effective scheduling of faculty and a convenient mechanism for analyzing faculty workload.
The project began with the development of the NLU Faculty Load/Overload Policy by the Provost and Deans. Based on that policy the course credit hours, (both semester - graduate and quarter - undergraduate), were converted to workload units. This conversion from credit hours to workload units allows easy calculation within and between the different credit hour systems. Once the workload units were linked to every course in Banner, the Provost office and the Deans could use Banner to generate teaching workload reports - easily, quickly and accurately. With proper approval, Deans can adjust workload units to accommodate special situations.
Workload is composed of more than teaching assignments. The Provost and the Deans can enter and adjust non-instructional duties for each faculty member on an individual basis. This feature, coupled with the teaching workload, gives NLU, for the first time, an easy to use and effective faculty workload tracking and planning system.
Additional useful features of the module, now under implementation, include tracking additional faculty information, such as tenure status, sabbatical dates and contract information. Thanks to the workgroup, especially George Litman, Associate Provost, who served as Functional Lead, and Mary Bridgett McGurk, the "hands on" lead user, for all their hard work implementing the project.
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