Workload Policy
Department of Political Science Workload Policy
Purpose. The purpose of the Department of Political Science Workload Policy is to provide guidelines for implementing the UTRGV Workload Policy that:
- ensure a fair and transparent distribution of workload among individual members of the Department,
- facilitate the Department’s transition to a workload distribution consistent with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s goal of becoming an emerging research institution, and,
- operationalize UTRGV Handbook of Operating Procedures Section ADM 06-106, par. 5, which identifies the primary duties of faculty members as follows:
1. Faculty members are required to provide students with a syllabus, and to post it online, and this syllabus must include the faculty member's office number and office hours, email, and other contact information (ADM 06-106 5.a.i.1).
2. Faculty are expected to be accessible to their students outside the classroom (physical or virtual) via email, telephone and office hours (ADM 06-106 5.a.iii.1).
3. The teaching schedule and office hours shall be posted outside each faculty office or in the Learning Management System and be available in the department office. Faculty members are to be available to students during the posted office hours (ADM 06-106 5.a.iiii.2).
The Department adopted this policy on February 8, 2019.