Full-time instructional faculty had an average of 321 student classroom contact hours per week,⁴ and part-time instructional faculty had about 176 student classroom contact hours per week. Full-time instructional faculty who used e-mail to communicate with students reported fewer average classroom contact hours (306 hours per week) than their colleagues who did not do so (353 hours per week). The average number of office hours per week was 6.5 hours for full-time instructional faculty and 2 hours for part-time faculty. The average number of office hours for full-time faculty who used e-mail (6.3 hours) was slightly lower than for those who did not use e-mail (7 hours).