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

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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

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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
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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

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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
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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.
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41. Quantitative study findings
Full-time faculty work week: Academic year, itemized tasks
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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)