that each staff member will spend, in one way or another, a minimum of forty-four
hours a week in the performance of-his official duties.
 Instructors and assistant professors will be assigned a teaching load of fifteen
 hours per week. Staff members in these ranks are usually entrusted with the more
 elementary courses, and therefore frequently do not have more than two classroom
 preparations to make. They are therefore expected to carry the maximum teaching
 load. In case, however, the number of preparations is greater or the number of stu-
 dents per instructor is excessive, the policy is to reduce the number of classroom
 and laboratory hours. Practice in this matter must of necessity vary somewhat, and
 in all cases, in making their assignments of work, the department head and the dean
 must give full consideration to all aspects of each individual case.
 The teaching load of associate professors and professors normally is twelve
hours. In addition to an elementary course, members of the staff holding these ranks
are assigned the advanced and graduate courses in the department, which usually
require several preparations. Much individual work with advanced students is usually
required of teachers in these higher ranks. Greater and more continuous effort is
necessary for them to keep abreast of progress in the knowledge of their subject.
Finally, time for research and creative scholarship is more ,urgently a necessity
for teachers in these higher ranks because, as a rule, they are the more mature
men in a department and their creative work is more widely recognized.
 Head professors of a few of the larger departments often are obliged to spend
up to one-half or even more of their time in the performance of many onerous adminis-
trative duties, while at the same time doing teaching of the difficulty and quality
commonly expected of professors.
 For professors in the College of Law, the maximum teaching load is eight or
nine hours per week.
 It is the general practice, in estimating teaching loads in the University, to
count two or three laboratory hours as equal to one classroom hour. There cannot,
however, in view of the variety of subjects and the differences in method they require,
be any strict uniformity of practice in evaluating laboratory hours in terms of class-
room hours. For example, the work of conducting a laboratory may range all the way
from the merest supervision to a type of instruction fully as difficult and exacting
as classroom teaching in the demands it makes and the responsibility it places on
the instructors. Therefore, it is necessary for the head of the department and the
dean to adjust the load to staff members whose duties include the supervising of
laboratories, in terms of the kind of laboratory work they are called upon to do.
 Instructional Privileges for Faculty Members. Members of the faculty with the
rank of instructor or above, who are on active duty full time, may register without
fee as part-time students for courses not to exceed one per semester. Before such
registration is accepted bythe office of the Registrar, however, it must have received
the approval of the department head and the dean, or director concerned.
 Faculty members who are thus registered as part-time students, without the
payment of any fee, will not be granted benefits that are the prerogatives of full-
time students only. They will not, for example, be allowed the use of the infirmary,
or student athletic benefits, or lyceum benefits, or participation in any other activi-
ties which are maintained for full-time students.
 Absences. Dismissal of students from courses for excessive absences or other
failure to do the required work is at the discretion of the instructor. If such action
is contemplated, the instructor must warn the student, in writing. This warning may
be delivered by the instructor to the student in person, or it may be mailed by the