Welcome to Agentic Faculty Workload & Scheduling thattallies teaching, advising, and service from the record.
Every spring a chair balances a department out of memory and diplomacy. Risely's agents tally the load from the record, draft a schedule against the capacity that exists, and write the trade-off under every move. The chair decides.
Spring draft · biology
tallied from the record
the chair:
the associate professor
the assistant professor
the senior lecturer
the professor on course release
course release on the booksThe load comes off the record.
Risely's agents read the section rosters, the advisee lists, the committee rolls, and the release records, then put one tally in front of the chair. Assembling that by hand is a week nobody in the department has.
Where the tally comes from
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Every line of this already exists somewhere in the institution. The chair's only real job today is finding it, and that is the job Risely's agents take.
A release that outlived its grant surfaces with its dates.
Course releases get granted in one office and funded in another, so the two records drift. Risely's agents read both, and the chair gets a dated trail rather than a rumour.
One release carries its own dates
The release surfaces for the chair's call with the dates attached
Nobody hid this. A release simply outlives the grant that paid for it, and the paperwork that would have caught it lives in a different office.
Next term arrives as a draft with its reasoning attached.
Every move the draft makes carries the trade-off that produced it. The department meeting then argues about priorities instead of arguing about whose memory of last spring is right.
Spring draft · what moved and why
drafting
Second intro lab · to the assistant professor
trade-off → the line with the most room this spring
Graduate seminar · Tuesday to Thursday
trade-off → clears the assistant professor's new lab block
Search committee · one seat re-assigned
trade-off → service was the heaviest track on that line
A draft with its reasoning attached turns the March department meeting into an argument about priorities rather than an argument about whose memory is right.
What each line asked for survives the re-solve.
A research day, a teaching window, a course somebody built and wants to keep teaching. Risely's agents hold every stated preference as a rule the draft has to satisfy, so a re-solve never quietly costs someone their Wednesday.
What each line asked for
A preference collected in October and forgotten in March is worse than never asking. Risely's agents carry each one into the solver as a rule the draft has to satisfy.
One thing moves. The draft re-solves.
A lab splits, a sabbatical clears, a grant closes. Any of them changes what the department can teach, and every one runs the same way.
A section splits in two
spring demand opens a second intro lab
The draft re-solves
the new section lands on the line with room
The trade-off gets written down
a Tuesday seminar shifts to Thursday
Stated preferences still hold
the research day survives the move
The chair approves the draft
one screen, one decision
Agentic Faculty Workload & Scheduling never works alone.
What changes, and how it runs.
The tally stops being an argument
Teaching, advising, and service come off the record.
The draft carries its own reasoning
Every move lists the trade-off that produced it.
The chair keeps every call
Risely's agents draft, and the chair decides.
The technical read
Connects read-only to your SIS, LMS, and course catalog to start
A department chair approves every draft
Every action lands on an append-only log
Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.