To maintain the highest standards for our 200,000 students, our college system must achieve realistic workloads for teachers, allowing students to get the help they need. Our college system must allow the subject experts – the faculty – to create and tailor courses to the individual needs of the students.
A joint employer/faculty Workload Task Force was created in 2006 to study faculty workloads and the effect on students. In 2009, that Task Force formally recommended that specific safeguards be put in place to protect quality education. These recommendations enable faculty to give students the assistance they need before, during and after class, and give teachers the right to create and adapt courses to benefit the students they are teaching.
College faculty want those recommendations put in place. The Colleges, however, do not. Despite their unanimous agreement with the taskforce report, the Colleges are refusing to implement the recommendations.