Common use of Faculty Assignments Clause in Contracts

Faculty Assignments. The instructional load of a full-time unit member shall be thirty (30) A Hour units or their equivalent per academic year. Unit members initially hired to teach in a certain discipline, which shall be considered their primary discipline, shall have the right to assignments to fulfill their full-time service obligation before unit members who are qualified to teach within the discipline but for whom it is not their primary discipline. a. Rotational seniority within the teaching specialty shall be used for scheduling up to this thirty (30) unit full-time service obligation if requested by a Contract or Regular unit member. ―Rotational Seniority‖ for this purpose means that if two or more unit members request a particular assignment in their primary discipline as fulfillment of their full-time service obligation, then the assignment shall go to the unit member for whom it has been the longest period of time since they last received it. b. In the event that a unit member is underloaded, not able to achieve a load equal to a full-time service obligation in their primary discipline because not enough assignments are available in their primary discipline, that unit member shall be eligible to take assignments for load in another discipline, a secondary discipline, for which they meet minimum qualifications. Under normal circumstances, the unit member for whom it is a secondary discipline shall receive load in that discipline after the primary members of that discipline have completed scheduling of their full-time load obligations, but before any assignments in that discipline are taken for overload, or offered to retirees or Part-time (Adjunct) unit members. (1) In the event that a unit member is underloaded due to the cancellation of an assignment, and that unit member has an overload assignment in a secondary discipline, that unit member shall be eligible to convert that assignment from overload to regular load to meet their full-time service obligation. (2) By mutual consent of the Vice President of Academic Services and the unit member who is qualified to teach in more than one discipline, a unit member may fulfill his or her full-time service obligation with assignments from more than one discipline, even when there are assignments available in their primary discipline.