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| St. Louis Community College at Meramec |
Tim N. Taylor, Ph.D. |
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At our community college—three very different campuses that comprise our CC system with a new campus on the way in the fall—English instructors teach a 4/4 load instead of the 5/5 load for professors in other disciplines. English professors are required to teach at least three writing courses of that 4/4 load. I can see if I can find the official statement about this, but it might take a while. The reduced load requirement was negotiated by our union (NEA) decades ago and stemmed from colleagues realizing the difference in workload when teaching a composition class vs. other classes. At least that's what I've been told (I've only been here since '02). As you can imagine, certain administrators have an eye toward dismantling this 4/4 workload, and there always has been grumbling about this set up. We have "writing-intensive" sections of courses in the Gen. Ed. Curriculum, but there is no reduced workload for WI courses. |
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| Eastern Michigan U. |
Linda Adler-Kassner |
ladlerka@emich.edu |
In a long ago contract negotiation, the English Department's load was reduced from 4–4 to 3–3, in part because of writing intensive classes. |
| Boise State University |
Heidi Estrem |
heidiestrem@boisestate.edu |
Our scenario here is for our newly-formed special lecturer positions (stable, renewable positions with benefits). When they were proposed last year, the then-Writing Program Director Michelle Payne successfully advocated for 4/4 loads (instead of the 5/5 loads across campus) and used documents like the workload survey posted elsewhere on this site to make her case. These positions are technically, then, 4/4+service. This fall, though, we've carefully defined the "service" for these positions so that it is a means to make visible the hidden work of teaching writing (eg., the hours of conferencing, responding to writing, and so on). While these positions aren't perfect, they're a good start on the issues. |
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