C. The Faculty Workday and Faculty Office Hours

Faculty members are expected to be available to their students and to the University during the weeks of instruction of the fall and spring semesters. The University recognizes that research and public service may occasionally require absence from campus. The department chair(s) should be informed of such absences ahead of time. The dean of the appropriate college must approve any commitments that will result in long‐term absence in advance.

Faculty members who teach in the evening may determine with the dean of their college a schedule for being on campus to accommodate their teaching hours so that no one need have an early morning class or other obligation after a late evening of instruction.

During the fall and spring terms, faculty members are expected to keep a minimum of five office hours per week. Scheduled office hours must be included in all course syllabi.