MF_FacultyNonTeachingAssignment

Fact

This dimension, MF_FacultyNonTeachingAssignment, records faculty membership on boards, committees, etc., as well as 'membership' in pseudo-commmittees. The grain is one row per faculty member, per non-teaching assignment, per term.

This dimension is particularly useful for analyzing faculty service on committees, oversight boards, etc. Sabbaticals and department-head stints are also included here (they are, that is, treated the same way as committee assignments in Colleague).

Yes, regular staff also participate on comittees, but because this work isn't built into teaching load calculations the way it is for faculty, and because workload reporting is normally confined to faculty members, we as an institution only care about faculty pariticipation.

Because assignments can cross multiple terms, workloads must be allocated across all terms covered by a given assignement, including WB and SB terms. Allocation is by term, and not proportional to the length of the term. So, say, if a faculty member gets a course release for the entire academic year for acting as a department head, and this is coded as a single assigment in Colleague, the assignment will be re-split here into five rows, one for each term: FA, WB, WI, SB, SP (and possibly SU). Workload will be divided up amongst the terms evenly.

There is no other (practical) way to do this.

Although this dimension is based on the Colleague campus organization membership file, we include only rows where the role = 'FMEMB' (i.e., 'Faculty Membership'), again because only memberships marked with this role are used in workload calculations.