[Faculty] URGENT: CoE Assigned-Time Policy Revision

[Ashkan Ashrafi]

Dear Esteemed CoE faculty

As you may know, we will be voting on the Revised Assigned-Time Policy in the CoE meeting next Tuesday. We all want a policy that is fair, faculty friendly and encourages research.

Unfortunately, a comparison with the College of Science (CoS) Assigned-Time Policy shows that we are creating significantly higher workload for ourselves compared to the CoS faculty.

The attached table highlights a stark difference between the CoE and CoS policies – For example: For a comparable research productivity, a faculty in CoS will earn 2 course release in each semester (12 units of release time per AY) whereas a COE faculty will earn only 1 course release in each semester (6 units of release time per AY). There are also some research activities that are not worthy of any release time in the CoE policy but they grant up to 12 units of release time per AY in the CoS policy.

Note that the CoE and CoS are both housing STEM fields and have very similar curricular structures.

I would urge all of you to look at the attached comparison table and read the CoS Policy, which is also attached to this email.

Considering this, we would like to make the following motion in the college faculty meeting on Tuesday:

Motion: The CoE Constitution and Bylaw Committee is asked to revise the Assigned-Time Policy (which is comparable to the CoS Policy) before March 30, 2023, so that it can be voted upon before the end of AY 2022-2023.

This is the time to decide whether we, as the CoE faculty, want to have a fair and faculty friendly Assigned-Time Policy (that encourages research) or continue with the status quo.

Kind regards,
Ashkan


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Ashkan Ashrafi, Ph.D., SMIEEE
Associate Professor
Director, Signal Processing Research Laboratory

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr., E-410A
San Diego, CA 92182-1309
Tel: (619)594-3703
Fax: (619)594-2654 
email: ashrafi at sdsu.edu
URL: ashrafi.sdsu.edu






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