Availability of Faculty Members to Students and Colleagues Sample Clauses

Availability of Faculty Members to Students and Colleagues. As professional educators and scholars, members of the Redlands faculty are expected to allocate their time so as to fulfill their individual responsibilities and to assist their colleagues in the shared work of the department, school, college, and University. Doing so requires faculty members to make themselves available on campus on a reasonable schedule. In addition to meeting their scheduled courses (§3.6.1.7), members of the faculty are expected to hold regularly scheduled office hours and to provide multiple ways for students in the regional centers to contact them. Office hours should be set in accordance with departmental or school practice and should reasonably satisfy the need for students to contact faculty members outside of class meetings. Faculty members also are expected to make themselves reasonably available to students at other times by appointment. Faculty members in the School of Business ensure sufficient availability to students who are geographically dispersed via email, phone, and text chat as well as by scheduling meetings outside of class time. During times of intensive student-faculty work (including student advising and registration in the College), it may be necessary for faculty members to schedule additional office hours. Each term, faculty members are responsible for making their schedule, including office hours, readily available to their students and colleagues, including appropriate staff. Availability on-campus to participate in other work of the faculty In order to accomplish their share of the collegial work of the department, the school, the college, and the University, members of the faculty need to make themselves reasonably available on campus to students, to faculty colleagues, and to administrators. Some of the work of departments and schools will occur on an unscheduled basis (e.g., informal advising of students, informal conversations with colleagues about departmental, programmatic, or school matters, pedagogy, or scholarship), and when faculty members are absent from campus for much of the time, the burden of dealing with that work shifts inappropriately to those colleagues who are on campus more often. To that end, faculty members are expected to ensure that they are available often enough to prevent those shifts from occurring. Other work occurs in settings for which the faculty knows in advance that everyone must be present—e.g., department and program meetings, meetings of the College and School Faculty A...