Common use of Appointment and Orientation Clause in Contracts

Appointment and Orientation. A. New instructional Faculty shall be required to attend an orientation prior to the beginning of their first Fall contract. Annual contract Faculty shall participate in pedagogical and discipline-specific training for up to thirty (30) hours per semester for each year they are on annual contract. Included within these hours are department meetings; meetings with mentors; and participation in Orientation, Convocation, the Professional Development Institute, and other organized professional development. The topics of the seminar series are at the discretion of the College. New instructional Faculty shall complete SJR State’s Distance Learning Academy and Active Learning Workshop as part of this seminar series as directed by their Xxxx/Director, regardless of previous teaching experience at other institutions. B. The College reserves the right to assign bargaining unit members to teach other courses within the same discipline or in other disciplines for which they are qualified to teach. The College also reserves the right to require bargaining unit members to work at any campus/site or in any modality based on institutional need. C. Faculty will not be assigned to more than one campus on the same workday as part of their base teaching load; exceptions may be necessary according to program needs. Full-time Faculty will not as a rule be scheduled more than half-time online unless their programs/courses are marked as online/hybrid programs or enrollment trends or safety concerns dictate the need for additional or fewer online course sections. D. Bargaining unit members may be required to teach in or move between both credit and clock hour programs.