Policy for Faculty Overload Pay in Fall or Winter Semester

Consistent with article XXXIV of the AAUP-AFT collective bargaining agreement, during the regular nine-month academic year (fall and winter semesters), CLAS will compensate full-time (.50 FTE or higher) faculty (non-tenure-track, tenure-track and tenured) $1,800 per credit hour to teach one course as a teaching overload.

To receive approval for a faculty overload, the chair must submit a brief memo/e-mail of request to the associate dean for faculty affairs, copying in the dean and BAO, for permission to offer overload pay to the faculty person. Faculty are limited to one overload course per semester during the regular nine-month academic year. Faculty being granted an overload must be teaching a normal course load for their department during the semester when the overload is to be paid. CLAS will not pay an overload for faculty granted a course release or course buyout during the same semester. The request from the chair must include:

• Justification for why the overload is necessary
• Confirmation that the faculty person being offered the overload will be teaching their regular course load for the academic year (excluding the requested overload)

Once the overload has been approved by the dean or her designee, the department must submit a completed EDSW and a copy of the approval to CLASHR@wayne.edu for processing.

Any exception to this policy (e.g., higher pay per credit hour, more than one overload course) must be approved by the dean and CLAS BAO via a request made to the associate dean of faculty affairs. For the exception, please submit a detailed justification to the associate dean of faculty affairs outlining the need for the exception.

Salary will be prorated if the overload is not for the entire semester (e.g., covering a course after the start of the semester for a peer who unexpectedly had to take medical leave) and exceptions may be made for part-of-term courses to support flat-rate tuition.

The decision on whether to accept an overload assignment is entirely up to the faculty member and refusal to do so cannot be held against the faculty member in annual reviews, renewals, or promotion and tenure decisions.