Re: Work loads

[COBLENTZ@DT3.DT.UH.EDU]

At UH-DOwntown, fulltime (both tenure-track and  *temporary* tutor six hours
a week for a semester for a course load.  Adjuncts tutor eight hours a week.
This difference is justified by the greater responsibility for policy-making 
and maintenance that fulltime faculty assume.  It same into being when four
lecturer positions were created for writing center instructors.  At that time,
their full load was defined as three WC slots and class.  That meant 24 hours
oops, I mean 18 hours of tutoring a week, deemed to be about as much as anyone
could manage and remain same.  It also meant 50 hours of tutoring a week (since
the coordinator got one release slot) of consistent, experience, *guatanteed*
tutoring a week.  

Since then, the institutional goal of reducing the number of sections taught
by adjuncts has changed our assignment to 2 WC slots and 2 classes.  The 
6 hours is recently under attack, mostly I think to save money, but remains at
present undisturbed.  

In practice, of course, the adjunct WC tutors return semester after semester
and concern themselves with the policy and smooth running of the center.  
COnsistent tutoring has never been a problem.  In practice, we now get 42
hours from fulltime faculty, 72 hours from adjunct faculty, and between
50 and 70 hours from undergraduate peer tutors a week.  The undergraduate peer tutors who are working for credit in connection to the tutor training course work
8 hours a week and the ones who are paid determine for themselve how much they
will work.  

Linda Coblentz