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Credits Follow the Instructor

Quick Summary Report by Department (Excel files):

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Detailed Reports by Instructor Category, Section Type, and Student Level:

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Description of Credits Follow the Instructor

Traditional Method: In the traditional method of tracking credits by department, credits are attributed to a department based on that department's "ownership" of a timetable subject. For example the department of Botany (A4813) is the "owner" of the subject of Botany (208). Under this approach, the student credit hours in all Botany courses "belong" to A4813, without regard to who is teaching the Botany course sections. In the case of cross-listed courses, the credits of students who registered for the course as a Botany course belong to A4813, while the credits of students who registered for the course under a different timetable subject belong to another department.

An Alternative Method: Under the Credits Follow the Instructor method, credits are attributed to the departments that pay the section instructor's salary. However,if none of the instructor's departmental appointments are eligible to receive credit hours, the instructor's credits will revert back to the department having ownership of the subject, as described below.

Converting course credits to section credits: In order to attribute student credit hours to an instructor, it is often necessary to prorate a student's course credits across sections within the same course. For example, if a student is enrolled in Chemistry 103 for 4 credits, those credits are divided between the student's lecture, laboratory, and discussion sections in the course. In 'Credits Follow the Instructor', the proration of credits across sections is based on two factors:

• The section's share of the student's total weekly contact hours in the course; and
• Weighting for type of instruction:Discussion sections are given 67% weight; laboratory sections receive 40% weight. All other types of sections are weighted at 100%.

Identification of Instructors: Section instructors are identified each term when academic departments report the instructors of record for each section to the Registrar's office of Timetable and Classroom Scheduling (TACS). Under Credits Follow the Instructor, if a section has multiple instructors, those instructors divide the section credits in equal shares.

Identification of DepartmentalAppointments: In Credits Follow the Instructor, the October payroll (for the fall report) and March payroll (for the spring report) are used to identify the departments and the funds that supported the instructor's position. Instructional appointments are appointments supported by funding in budget activity 2.

Under Credits Follow the Instructor, the following rules are used to attribute each instructor's student credit hours to a department. The instructor’s credits are processed separately for each course.

• If the instructor has one and only one instructional appointment in a teaching department, then the instructor's credits all go to that department.
• If the instructor has instructional appointments in multiple teaching departments, and:

only one of those departments has ownership of the course offering, then all of the instructor's credits go to that single department

more than one of those departments has ownership of the course offering (i.e. a cross-listed course), then the instructor's credits are shared by only those departments, prorated by the FTE of the instructor's appointments.

none of those departments has ownership of the course offering, then the instructor's credits are shared by the departments, prorated by the FTE of the instructor's appointments.

• If the instructor lacks an instructional appointment in a teaching department, then the instructor's credits stay with the department having ownership of the course subject. If the course is cross-listed, the departments that share ownership of the course receive the instructor's credits in equal shares.

For more information about Credits Follow the Instructor, contact Bruce Beck