In order to provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary education to 18,000 students across multiple campuses, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador employs around 1,300 full- and part-time faculty. In addition to regular teaching loads (four to five courses per year), each academic unit has teaching equivalency frameworks, prescribed by the faculty collective agreement, that determine recognition and compensation for all non-standard teaching (such as graduate supervision, field placement supervision, and so on). These teaching equivalencies vary substantially—even across departments within the same faculty—and have a large impact on faculty workloads. Memorial had an existing home-grown, customized system in place for approving sessional instructors (non-tenure track i

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