Report on the Status of Academic Work Life: CSU AAUP Eastern Connecticut State University September 21, 2011
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- 1. Report on the Status of Academic Work Life: CSU AAUP
Eastern Connecticut State University
September 21, 2011 - 2. The CSU AAUP Workload Study
- Purpose of study: examine the effects of changing academic workloads on the ability of the CSU system to provide high quality education
- 3. CSU AAUP selected the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at UMass Boston to conduct the study
- 4. Data collection
- 5. spring 2009, fall 2009, spring 2010
- 6. Data analysis and draft reports
- 7. fall 2010
- 8. Final reports presented
- 9. spring 2011
- 10. CSU AAUP State Council meeting, April 21, 2011
- 11. Overview of todays presentation
- Methods and data sources
- 12. Quantitativestudy findings
- 13. Full-time faculty work hours
- 14. Faculty load credit (FLC) categories
- 15. Pedagogical practices
- 16. Quality of the work environment
- 17. Qualitative study findings
- 18. Teaching loads and teaching effectiveness
- 19. Strategic initiatives and faculty workload
- 20. Rising research expectations
- 21. Faculty load credit system
- 22. Part-time faculty, librarians, coaches, counselors
- 23. Questions and discussion
- 24. Methods and Data Sources
Institutional Data
Faculty load credit data supplied by the CSU system for four academic years: 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009
Survey Data
Two surveys of all full-time faculty members in the CSU system (spring 2009, fall 2009)
Two surveys of all part-time faculty members in the CSU system (spring 2009, fall 2009)
Surveys of all full-time and part-time librarians, coaches, trainers, and counselors in the CSU system (spring 2010)
Interview Data
133 interviews and 4 focus groups
4 - 25. Methods and Data Sources
- Full-time faculty survey 1 (spring 2009)
- 26. Response rate 37.1% (N=435)
- 27. Full-time faculty survey 2 (fall 2009)
- 28. Response rate 35.0% (N=446)
- 29. Part-time faculty survey 1 (spring 2009)
- 30. Response rate 16.1% (N=175)
- 31. Part-time faculty survey 2 (fall 2009)
- 32. Response rate 11.3% (N=190)
- 33. Librarians, coaches/trainers, counselors (spring 2010)
- 34. Response rates: 43.8%, 26.4%, and 50.0%, respectively
- 35. Interview participants (N=133)
- 36. 40 full-time faculty, 19 part-time faculty, 23 department chairs, and 11 faculty search committee chairs
- 37. 17 administrators,
- 38. 8 librarians, 8 coaches/trainers, and 7 counselors
- 39. Methods and Data Sources
Project deliverables to CSU AAUP
four Faculty Load Credit (FLC) reports (one for each university)
four data analysis reports (one for each university)
a system-wide report
compendium of surveys used in the study
6 - 40. Quantitative study findings
Full-time Faculty Work Week: Academic Year
Note: All national averages are derived from the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF), U.S. Department of Education. Institutional type: public masters I universities.
7 - 41. Quantitative study findings
Full-time faculty work week: Academic year, itemized tasks
8 - 42. Quantitative study findings
- Summer Workloads: Full-time Faculty
- 43. Full-time faculty at Eastern reported that they spent an average of 206 hours on academic work during the summer (not including summer teaching)
- 44. Equivalent of more than five 40-hour work weeks
- 45. Among these summer tasks, the largest number of hours was devoted to:
- 46. Research and other scholarly activity (124 hours)
- 47. Administrative responsibilities (33 hours)
- 48. Preparing for classes for the next academic year (32 hours)
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