Adjunct Faculty Assignments Sample Clauses
Adjunct Faculty Assignments. Department chairs (or designee) shall provide their current adjunct professors with a written document requesting each adjunct professor’s availability and class assignment preferences for the next planned semester/intersession. This document shall be sent early enough so as to allow at least two (2) weeks for its return and to permit current adjunct faculty to receive their assignment in time to print the results in the class schedule. However, each department retains the right to assign classes to adjunct faculty in situations where there are last minute or short-notice class changes. Faculty teaching non-credit classes will be notified if any classes in their discipline extend outside of the academic calendar. These faculty will be given the option to teach the class with or without the extension without prejudice. Assignments of the classes will follow rehire rights priorities as per Article 10.R. An extension is not considered to be a “class” with regard to priority of assignment, evaluation processes, or rehire rights.
Adjunct Faculty Assignments. Department chairs (or designee) shall provide their current adjunct professors with a written document requesting each adjunct professor’s availability and class assignment preferences for the next planned semester/intersession. This document shall be sent early enough so as to allow at least two (2) weeks for its return and to permit current adjunct faculty to receive their assignment in time to print the results in the class schedule. However, each department retains the right to assign classes to adjunct faculty in situations where there are last minute or short-notice class changes.
Adjunct Faculty Assignments. The assignment or reassignment of adjunct faculty shall be the responsibility of the President with the assistance of other appropriate administrative staff and shall be based upon a continual assessment of the needs and interests of the students and the community served by the institution. Specific assignments shall be made by the administration.
A. Except in health professions, adjunct faculty members may be assigned to teach no more than ten and one quarter (10.25) contact hours per regular academic semester or ten and one quarter (10.25) contact hours during the summer, except under emergency circumstances. Adjunct faculty in the health professions may be assigned to teach a maximum of twelve (12) contact hours each semester. Adjunct faculty who participate in Learning Communities at the request of Administration and with the approval of the Learning Communities Coordinator will be paid a stipend equivalent to one contact hour of pay. This stipend will be paid as a special contract stipend and will not be counted against the adjunct faculty's teaching assignment. In exchange for this stipend, approved faculty must meet the following conditions:
I. Adjunct faculty will spend one hour per week in their partner's class in the Learning Community coupling
II. Adjunct faculty will collaborate to create a joint syllabus prior to the start of the course III. Adjunct faculty will meet weekly with their teaching partner for discussions on planning and evaluation of their LinC courses. A list of all adjunct faculty teaching over the limit of contact hours will be provided to the Union President within ten (10) working days of each semester and summer school session.
B. Adjunct faculty may be assigned to teach as substitutes in courses that the College has deemed them qualified to teach, provided that there are no full-time faculty members whom the College has deemed qualified to teach who are interested in the substitute assignment. Intermittent substitute assignments shall not be included in the contact hour limit for adjunct faculty. Adjunct faculty who substitute will be compensated at a rate of $30.00 per clock hour.
C. After the assignment of full-time faculty, full-time employees who teach and retired faculty, the College will offer to adjunct faculty in Tier 4 the opportunity to choose one course based on their hire date in their department. After Tier 4 adjunct faculty choose one course, then the college shall make a concerted effort to offer contingent a...
Adjunct Faculty Assignments