University of Southern Indiana

FACULTY COMPENSATION FOR
DISTANCE EDUCATION

Courses recommended for distance education delivery must be submitted as written proposals to the distance education office by the faculty member and approved and signed by the department chair and dean of the school. Full-time faculty members and adjunct faculty developing courses approved for first-time distance education delivery are eligible for additional compensation as an incentive to foster the growth of technology-delivered instruction. It is expected that there will be less reliance on incentives for development as technology-based delivery becomes more commonplace.

        1. Faculty members will be compensated for the first-time development
            for delivery of a complete distance education course. Compensation
            for development is based upon the faculty member's commitment to
            teach the course via distance education as part of her or his regular
            teaching load. Faculty should have the choice of receiving course
            development assigned time or a course development stipend. If a
            stipend is selected, faculty should receive the maximum faculty
            overload rate regardless of rank.

         2. After a graduate or undergraduate course has been developed for
            distance education delivery, it becomes part of the faculty member's
            regular teaching load; this may be one course from the standard
            teaching assignment or an overload stipend identical to a traditional
            course.

         3. Enrollment minimum and maximum for a distance education course is
            determined by the dean of the school in the same manner as a
            traditional course -- in consultation with the department chair and the
            faculty teaching the course. If minimum enrollment for a distance
            education course is not met, the dean, in consultation with the faculty
            member, may decide to cancel the course or offer the course for which
            the faculty member will receive a stipend pro-rated according to
            enrollment.

        4. If a distance education course is revised from one delivery format to
            another, such as from videotape to Internet, constituting a significant
            revision of content by the faculty member, the faculty member may be
            eligible for a revision stipend equal to 50% of the first-time course
            development rate.

        5. It is understood that the decision regarding faculty compensation rests
            with the dean of the school. Compensation for distance education
            courses will be negotiated by the dean and faculty member on a
            case-by-case basis to accommodate extraordinary situations.

Distance Education Advisory Committee Members:

                Karen Bonnell, Chair                          Juzar Ahmed
                Edward Jones, Ex. Officio                   Phillip Orr
                Tom Bordelon                                     Tamara Hunt
                Abbas Foroughi                                Martha Sparks
                Saxon G. Reasons                             Gene Freudenburg
                Michael L. Slavkin                              Dana Willett

Policy approved August 19, 2001.

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