1. Definition of Full Time

Full-time faculty members teach 24 credit hours or an approved equivalency per academic year. For librarians, the office hour equivalency is 10 hours to 1 course taught. A full-time librarian contract is 40 hours per week over a twelve-month period.

The principal occupation of full-time faculty members is their work at Rochester Christian University. Faculty members should consider no arrangement, including outside employment, that limits their schedules to specific hours on campus, makes impossible the keeping of regular office hours, hinders participation in normal campus activities, or is detrimental to the reputation and influence of the university.

Qualified Rochester Christian University employees may elect to pursue overload teaching and non-teaching duties. However, Rochester Christian University does not encourage overload contracts and limits the amount of overload contracts that can be pursued. Overload is limited to 15 credit hours of teaching per academic year. Overload cannot interfere with an employee’s primary duties; therefore, employees whose performance reviews demonstrate a need for improvement may be prohibited from pursuing overload.

In addition to fulfilling their assigned course load, full-time faculty members have many additional obligations, including the following: