Common use of Academic Commitments Clause in Contracts

Academic Commitments. It is recognized by the parties that faculty members have an obligation to meet classroom commitments on time and in assigned locations8, to assume committee assignments, to attend required meetings of an academic nature at the departmental, college, and university levels, to engage in scholarship, and to know and to follow such rules and regulations as are, from time to time, promulgated to the faculty by the Board of Trustees in accordance with academic governance procedures that do not involve consequential changes in the terms and conditions of faculty employment. Faculty including Department Chairs, may be required to perform work related to their primary academic function but may not be required to perform professionally inappropriate out-of-unit work as reasonably understood