[Faculty] URGENT: CoE Assigned-Time Policy Revision

[Sunil Kumar]

Dear Asfaw and Ashkan,
I understand that the scope of the revision assigned to the Constitution
and Bylaws Committee was very limited. They did what best they could within
the limited scope.
As one of the authors of the Assigned Time Policy in 2015, I know that it
has NOT worked well in terms of encouraging research. Although I am not
personally impacted by it, I strongly feel that it should be extensively
revised so that it encourages the faculty to be research active rather than
punishing with unreasonably higher teaching load.
I suggest we listen to those who are actually teaching courses.
Regards,
Sunil Kumar
ECE Department


On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 8:17 PM Ashkan Ashrafi <ashrafi at sdsu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Asfaw,
>
> Thank you very much for bringing this up. The file that I attached is the
> approved version. It was approved in 2015 (mentioned in the file name). I
> got the file directly from College of Science Associate Dean Tod W. Reeder.
> If you like, you may directly contact him and ask for a copy.
>
> I believe we need to postpone the vote because the difference between the
> two policies is very significant.
>
> Best,
> Ashkan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2022, at 8:09 PM, abeyene at sdsu.edu wrote:
>
> Greetings, Ashkan and All.
> The College of Science assigned time policy you graciously attached is
> published as a “Proposed Revision.”  If this has been ratified, a 3 unit
> course release for a conference paper is very faculty-friendly indeed.  It
> would be interesting to have the approved version.  Otherwise, I think it
> is better to take the issues you raised as amendments at a later meeting,
> rather than delay the years of diligent work of our esteemed colleagues,
> Julio et al.
> Best,
> Asfaw
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 6:37 PM Ashkan Ashrafi <ashrafi at sdsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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
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>> URL: ashrafi.sdsu.edu
>>
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