Common use of Underloads Clause in Contracts

Underloads. Faculty members required to make up underloads as a result of insufficient workload shall make up such underloads in a department or departments within the Brooklyn Campus. If an underload cannot be made up at the Brooklyn Campus, then it may be made up in any program of the University where courses which the unit members qualify to teach are available. The Administration and Faculty agree that the following shall be observed when underload make-up is required: 1. Workload may be assigned in any program in the University during regular Fall, Spring, or Summer sessions, or during the weekend or other special sessions. The Administration agrees that such assignments shall not impose unreasonable demands on the assigned faculty member. 2. Faculty members assigned make-up workloads at locations requiring additional travel shall be compensated for such additional travel expenses in accordance with Article XXXII, SALARY. 3. Make-up workloads requiring the faculty member's presence at more than one campus or extension program of the university shall be scheduled so as to limit the number of days required at the off-site location. Compact scheduling (consecutive or near-consecutive sections) shall be arranged whenever possible at the off-site location. 4. Faculty members assigned to make up workload at any campus in the Fall and Spring semesters or Summer sessions shall be given reasonable notice of such assignment, which in no event shall be less than two (2) weeks prior to the beginning of classes. Faculty members shall be given notice of assignment to Summer session(s) subsequent to the ▇▇▇▇'▇ approval of the prior Spring workload but prior to March 15th. 5. A faculty member may elect, with the approval of the ▇▇▇▇, to make up such underload in Summer session wherever such an option is declared available by the ▇▇▇▇ on the basis of careful projection in the Fall of the academic year in question. 6. In any department with insufficient workload to provide required full teaching workloads to all full-time department unit members, the selection of the unit member to be designated as underloaded will be in the following sequence: a. Those volunteering faculty members and/or those with the least seniority will be assigned as make-up workload for one (1) semester or session the amount required by the department, provided that the more senior faculty members are qualified to teach the available courses, as determined by the personnel committee of the department. Faculty members so assigned will then be listed at the top of the seniority roster, for this purpose only, so that all department faculty will be assigned make-up workload before anyone is required to repeat an assignment. b. At the request of the individual faculty member or the Administration, an underloaded faculty member may be transferred, in a part-time capacity to make up underload, to another Campus or unit of Long Island University. Temporarily reassigned faculty members will continue to exercise seniority, tenure, and voting rights in their original department at the Brooklyn Campus. Assignment of such underloaded faculty members by the Administration will be based upon reverse seniority and the needs of the department of origin and the host department. The Administration will use its best efforts to ensure that sufficient consideration will be given to the faculty member's seniority in the host department. 7. Underloaded faculty may combine independent study and tutorial sections to make up workload units. 8. No faculty member teaching in both the regular Fall and Spring semesters shall be required to teach in more than one Summer session. 9. A unit member who fails to carry a normal teaching workload as set forth in Section 2(d) above shall have his/her salary reduced by an amount equal to the difference between the required normal teaching workload and his/her actual teaching workload. This provision is conditional upon the Administration's good faith efforts to secure an appropriate teaching or non-teaching position under all the provisions of this Article and shall apply only when all such efforts fail or when the underloaded unit member refuses to accept the workload that is offered.