Loads for Teaching and Administrating Music Ensembles

The Director may assign course and administrative loads on a semester basis up to the maximum levels noted below:

 Not all faculty members contribute to the School in the same manner. A faculty member whose primary responsibilities are undergraduate teaching and undergraduate programs may teach and serve in a greater diversity of courses than a faculty member who is also a member of the graduate faculty. Most of the School faculty members will be either a full or associate member of the graduate faculty. All Faculty members are expected to be involved in significant scholarly and/or creative activity, serve on graduate student committees, and direct graduate student research.

In the interest of maintaining a high standard of teaching and the desirability of faculty involvement in scholarly and service activities, overload assignments are strongly discouraged. Overload assignments (i.e., workload assignments that total more than twenty-four (24) credit hours per academic year for tenured and tenure-track faculty and that total more than thirty (30) credit hours for full-time non-tenure-track faculty) will be made only in unusual circumstances. Such assignments require the agreement of the faculty member, and the approval of the Director and the Dean.