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An “overload class” is a class taught outside a full-time instructors contract, and is paid out by a certain percentage of their original contract. Full-time instructors are generally contracted to teach 24 credit hours per year, which usually translates into 4 classes per semester. Any classes taught in addition to that are “overload” and typically are done through summer semesters or through the Virtual College.

The cap size sets the maximum classroom size for a class. Increasing the cap size would save money by reducing the number of sections per class and reducing the number of instructors needed to teach at the university. Less flexibility when choosing classes and larger student/faculty ratio could be consequences of increasing the cap.

Martin had failed to produce any data showing budget savings for her proposal, which led up to the Senate’s backlash.

“The actual numbers simply do not suggest either widespread asia mobile number list abuse or that curtailing overloads would produce costs savings necessary to save jobs,” the FHSU-AAUP email wrote.

“In the September Faculty Senate meeting, President Martin suggested that restricting faculty overloads would save thousands of dollars per course. In her October 16 email to the campus community, she asserted that, ‘often, an overload may be as much as twice the cost of an adjunct.’ In fact, according to information provided to us by VP Barnett, the picture was much less exigent.”

The total cost of savings for FHSU for the 2015-2016 school year would have been $339,703 out of a nearly $150,000,000 institutional budget.