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II. Definition of Terms
1. Actual Contact Hours – refer to the length of time a faculty member is engaged in actual
teaching
2. Faculty Official Time (FOT) – is the length of time that the members of the faculty are required
to be physically present in their work station to render service.
3. Full-time Equivalent (FTE) – shall be determined in accordance with the University workload
policy.
4. Official Working Schedules (OWS) – refers to the individual schedules 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 refer 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 quality for the 30-hour per week official time
policy must carry a workload equivalent to at least 18 FTE, in accordance with 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 Hour (OWH) for all faculty members shall be categorized, as
follows:
Ø 40 hours per week for faculty members on Vacation-Sick Leave status
Ø 30 hours per week for faculty members on Teachers Leave status
Ø Mixed Load – faculty with both teaching and administrative functions,
for purposes of this guideline, only those below the chairs are qualified under the 30-
hour work per week
For faculty with mixed loads, their official hours will be computed as follow:

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