S247 Summary

• Board of Governors must adopt a policy setting faculty teaching standards for UNC constituent institutions (except NC School of Science and Math and UNC School of the Arts), differentiated by Carnegie Classification institution type and course discipline.

• Establishes specific average teaching loads by institution type and discipline: Research Universities I (4.0 courses/year STEM, 5.0 Humanities/Social Sciences), Doctoral Universities I (5.5 STEM, 6.0 Humanities/Social Sciences), Masters Institutions I (6.0 both), and Baccalaureate Institutions (8.0 both).

• Requires departments to maintain an average minimum of 10 students per course across all institution types.

• Professors teaching below required course loads must have their salary reduced pro rata unless the institution supplements with endowment funds, the professor has external grant funds transferred to offset teaching reduction, or the professor serves in an administrative position.

• Requires annual independent audits of each constituent institution to verify compliance with the teaching standards policy.