Common use of WORKLOAD AND WORK EXPECTATIONS Clause in Contracts

WORKLOAD AND WORK EXPECTATIONS. Section 1. The University maintains the right to define academic expectations and degree requirements. This Agreement does not impose a limit on the amount of this work necessary for a student to make satisfactory academic progress toward their degree. The University, Union and Graduate Assistants agree that it is in the interest of the University and Graduate Assistant to define a Graduate Assistant’s workload when serving as a Graduate Assistant to be commensurate with the Graduate Assistant’s appointment and assignment, as well as their ability to make academic progress required by their program. Such Graduate Assistant workload is outlined below. Section 2. The workload for Graduate Assistants with a “full-time” appointment is expected to be up to 20 hours per week, on average, when calculated retrospectively at the end of the semester (“20-hour appointment”), and a 20-hour appointment shall be the norm. A Graduate Assistant’s workload, for the purpose of calculating the 20 hours, does not include the Graduate Assistant’s obligations that are required as part of their academic program (i.e., classes, classwork, thesis, dissertation) or which are primarily attributable to their role as a student (i.e., departmental functions or conferences). Specific hours worked each week may fluctuate for Graduate Assistants due to the nature of their work. A Graduate Assistant may be appointed by the University to an Assistantship with a workload of less than a 20-hour appointment. Section 3. A Graduate Assistant’s responsibilities (e.g., preparation work, teacher-training, teaching orientation, and office hours) shall be those that advance the University’s interest in educating University students, conducting research, or supporting the educational mission of the Graduate Assistant’s hiring department, as the case may be. These responsibilities, to the extent practicable, will generally be outlined in a Graduate Assistant’s appointment letter. A Graduate Assistant’s responsibilities do not include providing personal services (e.g., personal shopping) for a Graduate Assistant’s supervisor. Section 4. The University will not assign new tasks to Graduate Assistants on teaching assignments after grades are due and submitted for the class they are teaching. This restriction does not apply to tasks related to the Graduate Assistants’ prior work (e.g., addressing student questions on an exam graded by the Graduate Assistant) performed during the semester, or work required to prepare for teaching during the next semester. Section 5. While the parties recognize that the content of work assigned to Graduate Assistants may vary from week to week, Graduate Assistants should not be assigned responsibilities that significantly deviate from the workload contemplated by this Article. Supervisors are expected by the University to make reasonable efforts to accommodate Graduate Assistants’ academic commitments when assigning responsibilities. Section 1. (Background on Academic Funding and Economic Parity): While Guaranteed Funding is provided to students in the context of admission to the University as an academic matter to ensure adequate support so students can pursue their degree, in order to provide a background framework for understanding the compensation provisions of this Agreement, the University acknowledges the email from the Vice Chancellor and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ dated January 13, 2023, appended to this agreement and it is prepared, on a permissive basis to agree that, in addition to the guarantees related to years of funding discussed in that email, all University Ph.D. students, even when they do not hold Graduate Assistantships, shall be provided with Guaranteed Funding within their guaranteed years of support (i.e., when on Fellowship). This paragraph does not apply to those graduate students who are engaged on external positions (e.g., internships, clinical positions). Nothing contained herein shall preclude the University from offering and agreeing to provide a Graduate Assistant with more years of Guaranteed Funding than stated in the email from the Vice Chancellor and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ dated January 13, 2023, and no