Overview
The Department Teaching Workload dashboard features teaching activity by credited department. For data by the listing department, use the Teaching Activity dashboard.
Please note that these data represent only one aspect of an instructor's work. Many instructors have responsibilities outside of teaching, such as research, administration, lab management, etc. You therefore cannot use these metrics to represent instructors' complete workload.
While the credited department is typically the pay department of the instructor, the assignment of the teaching activity can be complicated in certain situations, such as where faculty have appointments in multiple departments or are co-teaching. For this reason, the "crediting" or "assignment" of enrollments, classes, and SCH by unit follows a well-defined set of allocation rules developed by the provost and vice-provosts. These take into account multiple factors, in addition to the instructor's pay department, such as whether the class is team-taught, crosslisted/roomshared, or when the pay department is not an academic unit.
The metrics on the Departmental Teaching Workload dashboard can be viewed for multiple semesters to learn more about how a given department’s faculty’s teaching load has changed over time. Other reports in this dashboard feature detailed teaching activity workload information for specific instructors in a credited department, teaching by regular faculty, and crosslist/roomshare bundle information.
Student Curriculum Wiki Documentation
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Reports
Report Metrics
Brief explanations are included here. The Student Curriculum Data Dictionary has more detailed explanations. Note that all of the metrics on this dashboard are followed by the term “Share” to indicate that proration has taken place.
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The Enrollment Share by credited department is the sum of class enrollments that fall under the credited unit, which in most cases is the unit that pays the instructor for teaching the class (prorated for team-teaching), regardless of where the class is listed. See the Wiki for details about team-taught classes.
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SCH Share is the student credit hours by credited department. SCH is defined as the sum of credit hours for all students enrolled in a class (e.g., fifty enrollments in a two-unit course generate 100 student credit hours).
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Class Share is the number of classes taught by instructors for a credited department. It is prorated for team teaching.
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Instructor Headcount is the unduplicated number of instructors that were actively teaching.
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For details about team teaching situations and how they are credited, see the examples in the Rules for Assignment of Teaching Credit
Job Census Hierarchy
This dashboard uses the Job Census Hierarchy to roll up the instructor's Job Code (also known as Title Code) into higher-level groupings. This hierarchy is the same as the one used in the Cal Answers HR Census dashboards. To see more information about the instructor type categories in the Job Census Hierarchy, refer to the documentation in the Campus Workforce Planning wiki
Data Source and Update Schedule
Data in this dashboard is from end of term (EOT) snapshots to allow time for corrections and updates in the source system. See Latest Student Data Loads for the date that EOT curriculum data for the most recent semester became available.