Common use of Initial Assignment Clause in Contracts

Initial Assignment. The initial assignment period consists of all the assignment exercises needed to assign all of the Courses and each assignment exercise may consist of more than one round of assignment. The initial assignment period ends when all the groups in the Intensive program are established for the session. For the Summer session, Course loads can be divided into two (2) periods of five (5) weeks each, which are assigned at the same time. The initial Course assignment shall proceed as follows: 1) The University may reserve a Course and assign it to an Instructor on probation who meets the provisions of Article 11. The level of the Course assigned is that which allows the Instructor on probation to meet the requirements of probation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, reserving a Course may not have the effect of depriving an Instructor whose name appears on the seniority list of her or his Teaching hours but may have an effect on respecting the order of level preferences; 2) In decreasing order of seniority of the candidates, respecting the number of hours requested and, subject to paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Section A.2 of the present clause, the other preferences indicated on the application form; 3) In the first round, candidates shall be assigned in decreasing order of seniority, the hours requested up to a maximum of one hundred and seventy (170) hours, until the end of the seniority list; 4) In the second round of assignment, Course loads remaining are offered, in decreasing order of seniority, to the candidates who requested more than one hundred and seventy (170) hours to a maximum of two hundred and twenty (220) hours; 5) Subsequently, Course loads remaining may be offered to candidates on probation who have applied according to the provisions of this Article and who meet the provisions of Article 11; 6) In the third round of assignment, Course loads remaining are offered, in decreasing order of seniority, to the candidates who are available and who have not been assigned the maximum of two hundred and twenty (220) hours; 7) In the fourth round of assignment, Course loads remaining are offered, in decreasing order of seniority, to Instructors who are available. For Courses assigned after the first assignment exercise of the initial assignment period, level and program preferences are not taken into account if the Personnel Committee considers that it would create an undue disruption, by requiring a redistribution of Course loads for Course sections which have already begun or are about to begin, unless taking these into account would result in an increase in Teaching hours or income for an Instructor.