About this guide
Faculty are central to the mission and operations of any HigherEd institution—and they juggle a workload that matches the importance of this role. What does a day in the life of a faculty member at your college or university look like? Teaching and curriculum preparation, as well as research, depending on their role—right?
That’s not the full picture. Faculty workload is complex and varied, and includes a great deal of administrative work. Faculty themselves often underestimate how much administrative work they do. When planning out their ideal workweeks, several professors at a research university discovered that administrative work didn’t fit neatly into one category and monopolized their time. This illustrates a challenge. To support faculty, your institution needs to manage, balance, and simplify their workloads. To do this, you need to dig deep into their workloads. The only way to have the level of transparency required to do so means everything needs to be digitized.
In this guide, we offer best practices for breaking down faculty workload, digitizing that information, and then streamlining and simplifying outdated processes to give time back to your faculty.