Extension Faculty and Academic Staff Workload Policy Development through the UW Systemwide Extension Council

This poster discusses the development of an extension faculty and academic staff workload policy. The University of Wisconsin-Extension (UWEX) has been charged with leading and coordinating extension education programs across the fourteen institutions of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS). UWEX supports faculty who work in the UWS institutions and in the Wisconsin counties. The University of Wisconsin Systemwide Extension Council (UWSEC) was created to allow the UWEX chancellor to receive advice from faculty across the UWS.

Recently UWS required that each UWS institution have a faculty workload policy. UWEX was interested in a policy that would be useful for its own faculty and faculty at the other institutions engaged in extension and continuing education. Therefore UWEX turned to UWSEC to help develop its faculty workload policy. The UWSEC shaped and created a workload policy with clear definitions for Extension Teaching and Program Development, Applied Research and Creative Scholarship, and University/Professional Service. The policy was shared with UWS and with each of the UWS institutions, and it has become useful on several campuses as they have developed their workload policies.