Common use of Assignment of Teaching Clause in Contracts

Assignment of Teaching. (a) Department Chairs, in consultation with their departmental members, shall submit a teaching assignment recommendation for each departmental Member to the VPAD. In the case of Chairs and Librarian Members, the Associate ▇▇▇▇ shall, in consultation with the Librarian or Chair, submit a teaching assignment recommendation to the VPAD. Chairs shall consult appropriately with the Chair or delegate of the corresponding University of Waterloo department or program, where applicable, on the assignment of teaching duties. (b) The VPAD shall assign courses to Members after a consideration of the teaching assignment recommendation. In so doing, the VPAD shall ensure that there is an equitable distribution of teaching workload across the University and among Members of the Department. The VPAD’s consideration of equitable distributions of workload shall include but not be limited to the following: number of undergraduate courses, number of graduate courses, where applicable, student-teacher ratios, number of thesis supervisions, number of graduate student supervisions, and number of directed readings courses, field courses, experiential learning courses, or other forms of teaching as defined in Article 25. 2.1. The VPAD shall consult appropriately with the SJU Chair on the assignment of teaching duties.