Common use of Institutional Environment Clause in Contracts

Institutional Environment. 18.1 The University recognizes the importance of an adequate working environment and supporting services to promote effective teaching, learning and research. Therefore, within the limits of available space and resources, the University shall make a good faith reasonable effort to provide each Member of the Bargaining Unit the following: 18.1.1 suitable office space and furniture, phone, and network-compatible computer with access to either a network or personal printer; 18.1.2 access to copying services for their reasonable academic copying needs; 18.1.3 office and classroom supplies; and 18.1.4 library resources, computing systems with technical support, classrooms, and laboratories that are responsive to Bargaining Unit Faculty and student needs, in compliance with O.S.H.A. standards, and consistent with standards of quality recognized at the national level. 18.2 The University will make a good faith effort to respond in a timely fashion to reasonable requests from Bargaining Unit Faculty for measures to secure hazardous materials. 18.3 Before moving a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member from an assigned research laboratory space, the University will communicate to the Member in writing the reason(s) for the move. When reallocating research laboratory space, the University will consider the productivity of potentially affected Bargaining Unit Faculty Members as measured by published papers, funded external grants, grant supported students, and post docs. A Bargaining Unit Member who is informed that he/she must move to new research laboratory space shall have the right to a proportionate adjustment in the relative weight assigned to her or his research in that year’s annual evaluation pursuant to Section 11.2.6 if the Member provides reasonable documentation demonstrating that the effort involved in moving or preparing to move the lab lessened her or his productivity. 18.3.1 Whenever laboratory space is reallocated or assigned to a new faculty member, it will be inspected before the new occupant moves in, by the Department of Environmental Health and Safety.

Institutional Environment. 18.1 The University recognizes the importance of an adequate working environment and supporting services to promote effective teaching, learning and research. Therefore, within the limits of available space and resources, the University shall make a good faith reasonable effort to provide each Member of the Bargaining Unit the following: 18.1.1 suitable office space and furniture, phone, and network-compatible computer with access to either a network or personal printerprinter and at least two chairs; 18.1.2 access to copying services for their reasonable academic copying needs; 18.1.3 office supplies (including but not necessarily limited to letterhead paper, pads of paper, computer disks, envelopes, pens, pencils, staples, paper clips, and file folders) and classroom suppliessupplies (including but not necessarily limited to transparencies, marker pens for overhead projectors, chalk, and erasers); and 18.1.4 library resources, computing systems with technical support, classrooms, and laboratories that are responsive to Bargaining Unit Faculty and student needs, in compliance with O.S.H.A. standards, and consistent with standards of quality recognized at the national level. 18.2 The University will make a good faith effort to respond in a timely fashion to reasonable requests from Bargaining Unit Faculty for measures to secure hazardous materials. 18.3 Before moving a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member from an assigned research laboratory space, the University will communicate to the Member in writing the reason(s) for the move. When reallocating research laboratory space, the University will consider the productivity of potentially affected Bargaining Unit Faculty Members as measured by published papers, funded external grants, grant supported students, and post docs. A Bargaining Unit Member who is informed that he/she must move to new research laboratory space shall have the right to a proportionate adjustment in the relative weight assigned to her or his research in that year’s annual evaluation pursuant to Section 11.2.6 11.2.1 if the Member provides reasonable documentation demonstrating that the effort involved in moving or preparing to move the lab lessened her or his productivity. 18.3.1 Whenever laboratory space is reallocated or assigned to a new faculty member, it will be inspected before the new occupant moves in, by the Department of Environmental Health and Safety.