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I. COVERAGE

This guideline shall be applicable to all regular, as well as contractual (without designation)
members of the faculty of the Isabela State University who are actually holding teaching
assignments. Faculty members who have been hired on part-time basis are not covered.

II. DEFINITION OF TERMS

For the purpose of these guidelines the following terms are hereby defined:
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 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

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