Degree Completion Work Assignments Sample Clauses

Degree Completion Work Assignments. 21.7.1 Instructional faculty members on continuing appointment in non-degree completion instructional positions may request to teach third and/or fourth year courses provided the workload is available in accordance with the educational and/or budget plan. 21.7.1.1 Instructional faculty members so approved and who are assigned workloads including third and/or fourth year courses in accordance with the provisions of clause 25.3 shall receive the adjusted workload in accordance with this article for the college year. 21.7.1.2 Instructional faculty members subject to the provisions of section 21.7.1 shall not have scholarly activity evaluated for the purposes of termination. 21.7.2 Instructional faculty members hired for an instructional position other than a degree completion instructional position may, with mutual agreement, later be assigned to a degree completion position. 21.7.2.1 The probationary period of instructional faculty members so assigned shall be governed by clause 15.4. 21.7.2.2 Instructional faculty members so assigned shall have their scholarly activity evaluated in accordance with Article 28 and clause 31.2. 21.7.3 Instructional faculty members appointed to continuing positions designated as degree completion instructional positions shall receive the adjusted workloads unless OUC waives the right to consider the performance of scholarly activity for the purposes of termination. 21.7.3.1 The waiver in section 21.7.3 shall not apply in the first two years of the continuing appointment. 21.7.3.2 Once waived under section 21.7.3 and with the mutual agreement of the employee and OUC, the employee may be redesignated to a degree completion instructional position. 21.7.4 Instructional faculty members who do not have scholarly activity as a required component of their workload may apply to their designated supervisor on an annual basis for a scholarly activity assignment. 21.7.4.1 The assignment of scholarly activity under the provisions of section 21.7.4 is subject to budgetary approval. 21.7.4.2 Instructional faculty members subject to the provisions of section 21.7.4 shall have scholarly activity evaluated for purposes of termination.