[FUN_Mail] Teaching Credit for Mentoring Undergraduate Research

[Dr. James Murray Ph.D. via FUN_Mail]

We have a similar system with a section of 4900 or 6900 for each faculty member.

Each undergrad enrolled in 4900 counts as 0.33 of a “weighted teaching unit" (no matter how many units they sign up for, so they usually choose 1 unit).  
Each grad student enrolled in 6900 counts as 0.45 of a “weighted teaching unit”.

We teach 12 WTUs each quarter for a total of 36 WTUs per AY, and we are allowed to count 4 WTUs from 4900/6900.  So mentoring up to 3 grad students, each quarter, for 3 quarters, adds up to ~4WTU (or 4 undergrads, per quarter, over 3 quarters).

I don’t think our chair counts this very precisely, but some faculty are clearly exceeding these numbers of students, and a few might not be.


Dr. James A. Murray, Ph.D.
South Science 303C, Department of Biological Sciences
California State University East Bay
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd
Hayward CA 94542
office, 510-885-2367




> On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Judith Ogilvie via FUN_Mail <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:
> 
> We address the issue of assigning teaching credit by having a different
> course section number for each faculty member associated with independent
> research course number. So, for example, we might have 3 sections of our
> intro class (because no one lecture hall is big enough) which are numbered
> Biol 1040-01, Biol 1040-02, and Biol 040-03. But for independent research,
> we have 25-30 different sections of Biol 4980, one for each faculty member.
> Hope this helps.
> Judy Ogilvie
> 
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> Co-Director, Neuroscience Program
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Divya Sitaraman via FUN_Mail <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>
>> To: fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org
>> Cc:
>> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:32:42 -0800
>> Subject: [FUN_Mail] Teaching Credit for Mentoring Undergraduate Research
>> Dear FUN folks,
>> 
>> Our department (Psychological Sciences and Behavioral Neuroscience) at
>> University of San Diego is trying to come up with a good sustainable model
>> for awarding teaching credit to faculty who mentor undergraduate research.
>> I was wondering if your school has such a program in place. If yes I would
>> love to get the details so that we can present these models to our Dean so
>> that faculty can get some recognition/appreciation for mentoring
>> undergraduates in research.
>> 
>> Most of the students who do research enroll for research credits (Psych and
>> Neur 496) so in a way they pay for these credit hours.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Divya Sitaraman
>> Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
>> University of San Diego
>> 
>> 
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