Faculty Teaching Load Guidelines

Faculty teaching load guidelines can be found on the following chart.

Description	Credit Hour Maximum Load (Average of fall and spring semesters per week with ten students or more per course.)	Credit Hour Overload (Average of fall and spring semesters per week with ten students or more per course.)	Contact Hour Maximum Load (Average of fall and spring semesters per week with ten students or more per course.)	Contact Hour Overload (Average of fall and spring semesters per week with ten students or more per course.)	Overload Pay
Full-time General Education Faculty					Overload is normally $600 per credit hour, however it is $700 percredit hour for courses with lab hours double the lecture per syllabus.
Physics	16	17	N/A	N/A
Environmental Science	15	16	N/A	N/A
All other general education	15	16	N/A	N/A
Applies to fall, spring, and summer for 12-month faculty and fall and spring for 9-month faculty.
Full-time Technical Faculty	N/A	N/A	25	26	Overload is normally $600 per credit hour, however it is $700 per credit hour for courses with lab hours double the lecture per syllabus.
Applies to fall, spring, and summer for 12-month faculty and fall and spring for 9-month faculty.
Summer pay for 9-month faculty teaching in the summer	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	$700 per credit hour for all courses.