Common use of Assignment of Teaching Clause in Contracts

Assignment of Teaching. 25.5.1 Department Chairs, in consultation with their Department Faculty Members and, where applicable with the Chair or delegate of the corresponding UW department or program, shall submit a teaching assignment recommendation for each Department Member to the VPAD. Chairs shall consider departmental curricular needs, and the expertise and individual preferences of Faculty Members. Librarian Members may be assigned to teaching with due consideration to workload as outlined in Article 25.8.1. 25.5.2 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 St. ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s University Chair on the assignment of teaching duties. In no case shall the VPAD make a teaching assignment for which a Member is not qualified.