Faculty Automated Contract System (FACS)

The Faculty Automated Contract System (FACS) is used to process contracts for adjunct, offload and per-student teaching assignments.

FACS Resources

If you need to add/delete users or experience problems with FACS, please complete the Issue Request Form. A member of the Provost Budget Office will respond.

Pay Scale Resources

Payment Schedules

Fall / Spring Term

  • Adjuncts I — $1,498 per credit hour for fall and/or spring term ($4,495 for a three-credit-hour course)
  • Adjuncts II — $1,649 per credit hour for fall and/or spring term ($4,944 for a three-credit-hour course)
  • Adjuncts III — $1,813 per credit hour for fall and/or spring term ($5,438 for a three-credit-hour course)
  • Offloads (regular faculty, clinical, visiting faculty, teaching professors)
    • less than 3 years of service — $1,498 per credit hour for fall and/or spring term ($4,495 for a three-credit-hour course)
    • 3 to 5 years of service — $1,649 per credit hour for fall and/or spring term ($4,944 for a three-credit-hour course)
    • with 6 years or greater of Service — $1,813 per credit hour for fall and/or spring term ($5,438 for a three-credit-hour course)

To determine the appropriate compensation amount for 4-, 5-, and 6- credit courses, please take the per credit hour rate above and multiply by the number of credit hours. For example, for a 6-credit course taught by an Adjunct II faculty member, multiply the per credit hour rate of $1,649 by 6 credit hours, which would equal $9,894. 

Minimester and Summer Term

Pay Scale for Per Student Compensation

View the Pay Scale for Per Student Compensation (PDF).

Course Load Limitations

  • Regular Faculty/Teaching Professor: May teach one off-load course with Chair and Dean approval.
  • Adjunct not otherwise employed; or employed less than full-time: May teach a maximum of 3 courses per semester. Exceptions (one additional course) must be approved by the Chair and Dean.
  • Adjunct who is employed full-time: May teach one course per semester. Exceptions (one additional course) must be approved by the Chair and Dean.
  • Adjunct who is employed full-time and teaches part-time at another institution: Ineligible to teach at Towson University. Requests for exceptions are strongly discouraged.

All Staff who teach courses, or accept other Secondary Assignments, must use leave if the assignment coincides or overlaps with the employee’s regular work hours as stated in the University Policy on Secondary Employment for Regular Non-Faculty Employees.

  • Faculty may teach no more than one three (3) credit class, or an equivalent combination of classes totaling no more than three (3) credits, during January minimester.
  • Additional classes and/or credits may be possible in exceptional cases but must be approved by the department chair, college dean, and provost.
  • Based on a standard maximum teaching load of four course units during an academic semester (15 weeks), the standard maximum teaching load during the summer (10 weeks) is three course units. Upon recommendation of the Chair and approval of the Dean, a fourth course unit may be approved for the summer.
  • This teaching load would normally consist of no more than:
    • Two course units in one 5-week or one 7-week summer session
    • Three course units occurring simultaneously unless two or more were in the 10 week session

Guidelines for Minimester and Summer Instruction

View guidelines and policies for minimester and summer instruction. 

Printable summer and Minimester contracts in FACs for contracts prior to Summer 2021 do not have the correct pay scale.

If you need a copy of a contract for either one prior to Summer 2021, please contact the Provost's Budget Office, .

FACS System Roles

There are two primary roles used in the system: initiators and approvers.

Initiators

Initiators are Department staff who enter contracts into FACS.

Initiating a contract in FACS

Before entering contracts, confirm that the appointee has completed an Early Provisioning Form and has an EMPL ID and a Towson University email address. See: Initiating payroll for new adjunct faculty (PDF)

When prompted for the contract type on the data entry page, please be sure to select the correct type.

  • State-funded contracts use a funding department that begins with “1.”
  • Department-funded contracts use a funding Department that begins with “3” or “5.” See the TLN List of Course Section Numbers (PDF) — sections shaded in blue are department-funded.
  • Internships use the per-student department-funded contract. The funding department number is 35010. 

Approvers

Approvers include appointees, department chairs, deans, budget officers, human resources and payroll.

Appointees, chairs and deans will receive an auto-generated email notification from PeopleSoft HCM when a FACS contract is pending approval.