Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Professors Sample Clauses

This clause defines the responsibilities and work assignments for both probationary and tenured professors within an academic institution. It typically outlines the types of duties expected, such as teaching, research, and service, and may distinguish between the expectations for those on probation versus those with tenure. By clearly specifying these roles, the clause ensures that both faculty and administration have a mutual understanding of job requirements, thereby promoting fairness and transparency in workload distribution.
Duties and Assignments for Probationary and Tenured Professors. The primary duties of all faculty are to serve the educational needs of students. Consistent with each professor’s assignment, these duties include instructional and non-instructional activities within their assigned department/discipline. Instructional duties are those that are directly connected with instruction and include the following: • Establish regular availability to meet with students weekly and state instructions for scheduling and meeting access in course syllabi. Availability may be by appointment and/or drop-in and student hours may be held in-person or virtually, as appropriate for class modality and student access. The professor must provide a minimum of 5 hours of available time to meet with students per week. • Designing and developing classes aligned with the student learning outcomes of current course outline; • Instructing, including class management and classroom setup and maintenance; • Assessing student learning of knowledge and skills according to the course’s learning outcomes, to include designing assessments evaluating student work, and assigning end of quarter grades; • Consulting with students on questions related to courses and instruction; • Staying current in the discipline and department; • Staying current in teaching approaches and learning resources that support student learning; • Liaising with other professors relevant to specific course requirements; and • Contributing to distribution-, program- and degree-level assessment. Library faculty have the following duties: • Providing information literacy instruction through coordinating and teaching integrated information literacy workshops with other discipline faculty, creating online and video tutorials, faculty consultations, and one- on-one student assistance; • Reviewing and improving the library’s physical materials and electronic resources; • Setting up, administering, and maintaining library management and cataloging systems and electronic resources; and • The instructional duties described above. Counseling faculty have the following duties: • Providing short-term mental health counseling and appropriate referrals; • Maintaining Washington licensure as a counselor, clinical social worker or related field; • Providing immediate support for students in crisis and referrals to appropriate resources; • Implementing student success workshops, including needs assessment, preparation, and instruction; • Consulting with faculty/staff on risk assessment, behavioral managem...
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  • Duties and Responsibilities of Executive (a) During the Employment Period, Executive shall devote Executive’s full business time and attention to the business of the Company and its Affiliates, as applicable, and will not hold any outside employment or consulting position. Executive’s duties pursuant to this Agreement will include those normally incidental to the positions identified in Section 1, as well as such additional duties as may be assigned to Executive by the Holdings Board from time to time. (b) Executive represents and covenants that Executive is not the subject of or a party to any employment agreement, non-competition or non-solicitation covenant, non-disclosure agreement, or any other agreement, covenant, understanding, or restriction that would prohibit Executive from executing this Agreement and fully performing Executive’s duties and responsibilities hereunder, or would in any manner, directly or indirectly, limit or affect the duties and responsibilities that may now or in the future be assigned to Executive hereunder. (c) Executive acknowledges and agrees that Executive owes the Company and its Affiliates fiduciary duties, including duties of care, loyalty, fidelity, and allegiance, such that Executive shall act at all times in the best interests of the Company and its Affiliates and shall not appropriate any business opportunity of the Company or its Affiliates for Executive. Executive agrees that the obligations described in this Agreement are in addition to, and not in lieu of, the obligations Executive owes the Company and its Affiliates under common law. The Parties acknowledge and agree that Executive may provide services (including as an executive, employee, director, or otherwise) to multiple Affiliates of the Company and, in providing such services, Executive will not be violating Executive’s obligations hereunder so long as Executive abides by the terms of Sections 7, 8, and 9 below in the course of performing such services.

  • Resignation from Directorships and Officerships The termination of the Executive’s employment for any reason will constitute the Executive’s resignation from (i) any director, officer or employee position the Executive has with the Company or any of its Affiliates, and (ii) all fiduciary positions (including as a trustee) the Executive holds with respect to any employee benefit plans or trusts established by the Company. The Executive agrees that this Agreement shall serve as written notice of resignation in this circumstance, unless otherwise required by any plan or applicable law.

  • Resignation of All Other Positions To the extent applicable, the Executive shall be deemed to have resigned from all officer and board member positions that the Executive holds with the Company or any of its respective subsidiaries and affiliates upon the termination of the Executive’s employment for any reason. The Executive shall execute any documents in reasonable form as may be requested to confirm or effectuate any such resignations.

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