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2) Faculty Official Time (FOT) – is the length of time that the members of the faculty are
required to be physically present in their workstations to render service.
3) Full Time Equivalent (FTE) – shall be determined in accordance with the University
workload policy.
4) Official Working Schedule (OWS) – refers to the individual schedule to be prepared by
each member of the faculty detailing the specific times and days the faculty is to report to
his official station to complete his Faculty Official Time (FOT).
5) Quasi-Teaching Functions – refer to the activities of the members of the faculty which
are related to their teaching functions such as those in research, extension as well as
instruction related production activities.
6) Regular Workload – this refers to the 24 FTE/week that a faculty should carry every
academic term.

III. POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

a) Policy Standards
1) Members of the Faculty, in order to qualify for the 30-hour per week official time policy
must carry a workload equivalent to at least 18 FTE, in accordance with the University
Faculty Workload Scheme.
2) Faculty Official Time maybe served from 7:00 in the morning to 9:00 in the evening
everyday from Monday to Sunday, provided that, the 30-hour official work time must be
served/distributed in at most five continuous days. However, whenever possible, service
hours on Sundays must be avoided.
3) No faculty member should be allowed to teach in a lecture class for more than three
continuous hours. In the exigency of the service, however, they maybe required to render
more than six hours of teaching per day, provided that services in excess of 30 hours per
week shall be properly compensated. Moreover, those who have a last period class in the
morning session should not, as much as possible, be given a first period class in the
afternoon session.
4) The official Working Hours (OWH) for all faculty members shall be categorized as follows:
 40 hours/week for faculty members on Vacant-Sick Leave status
 30 hours/week for faculty members on Teachers Leave status
 Mixed Load – Faculty with both teaching and administrative functions, for purposes of
this guideline, only those below the chairs are qualified under the 30-hr work/week.
For Faculty with mixed loads, their official hours will be computed as follows:

FTE for actual teaching FTE for designation
____________________ x 30 hours + _________________ x 40 hours

24 24

5) The immediate supervisor shall accomplish a monthly Certificate of Service rendered in
his/her department stating among others the total number of absences.
6) Time spent for activities covered by locator slips are not part of the 30-hour official working
time.
7) Faculty members are allowed a maximum of two hours for consultation.
8) Every hour of absence during official time is equivalent to 1.33 hours of absence.

b) Procedures/Mechanics