• Profile policy for Teaching-Track and Research-Track faculty issued by Vice Provost Elizabeth Graddy (issued October 18, 2016)
• USC Viterbi Policy on Faculty Load Profile (last revised 2015)
• USC Viterbi Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Load Profile (last revised August, 2015)
• Extended Teaching Load Reduction for Probationary Faculty (issued January, 2012)
• USC Viterbi Teaching Faculty Load Profile (last revised August, 2016)
• Supplemental Faculty Salary Compensation Program and Memo (last revised July, 2021) *affecting research faculty service load profiles, and T/TT
• Viterbi Faculty Affairs Meeting Presentation on Managing, capturing, and tracking faculty load profiles (February, 2020)
• Notes on Research Faculty Load Profiles:
  12 month, Research faculty paid on federal grants are generally not eligible for overload. To be eligible for an overload, 12 month Research faculty overload efforts must meet all of the following criteria:
  1) The effort has to be finite lived 2) The effort has to be clearly outside of the regular job duties 3) The effort is not a recurring task.  
  Generally, teaching by research faculty (including one-time non-degree payments) does not meet the above criteria. 
• Therefore to accommodate teaching, research faculty reduce their research efforts over the period of instruction, accordingly:
  8.33% for a one unit course, 16.66% for a two unit course, 25% for a three unit course, 33.33% for a four unit course

• USC Viterbi Principles Related to Part-Time Faculty (last revised January 2016)
• Definitions of faculty teaching less than full time issued at the Deans of Faculty Council Meeting (issued January 17, 2017)
• Attestation of Workday Classification Form (last updated June, 2021)
• Part-Time Faculty Hourly Rate and Unit Calculator
  In Viterbi, one instructional unit has been normalized to 4.44% of 100% full-time equivalent (FTE) salary.
  One unit assumes 51 hours of overall effort over the semester period.
• If a Part-Time instructional faculty teaches at least three 3-unit courses (9 units*) or more in an academic year, they are 50% effort and eligible for benefits over the period. Academic Year contracts are preferred.
• (*Note: 9 units is half of 18 units, the default teaching load profile in Viterbi for full-time teaching faculty.)
• If a Part-Time faculty in an instructional job code and title (e.g., Adjunct Lecturer, Adjunct Professor of Practice, Part-Time Lecturer) is to perform service or research, these efforts are not considered part of the teaching profile and must be approved by the Dean or Dean of Faculty.
• Likewise, if a Part-Time faculty in a research job code (e.g., Adjunct Research Assistant Professor) is to perform teaching or service, these efforts are not considered part of the teaching profile and must be approved by the Dean or Dean of Faculty.
• In all cases, service is not expected nor required of faculty in part-time job profiles.
• For part-time research faculty to serve as PI or co-PI, some amount of department funding (2-5%) is needed to support proposal writing efforts.

Response to AB 736

In summer, 2021, USC responded to California Labor Code AB 736, which, under certain conditions, allows for instructional part-time faculty efforts to be paid as exempt, where before the efforts would be considered hourly and non-exempt.

USC Viterbi instructional efforts all meet the rate of pay requirement to be considered exempt.

• Attestation Training (June, 2021), provided by the Office of the Provost
• Attestation of Workday Classification (May, 2023) - all part-time faculty are required to have this form on file in their Gold file and Workday records
• FAQ Implementation of AB 736 for USC (June, 2021) - please note the required Workday assignment entry to be in compliance.
• Part-Time Faculty Classification Guidelines (2017)