Common use of Instructor Promotions Clause in Contracts

Instructor Promotions. (a) Instructor Rank Promotion Procedures (i) Instructor employees shall be considered first by the departmental promotion committee, or equivalent, established under Article 10.2(a). When any Instructor employee is being considered, an Instructor employee other than the employee under consideration shall be added as a member of the committee and shall remain a member for all consideration of the Instructor employee in question. Where a department has only one (1) Instructor employee, an observer from the same faculty as the Instructor shall be named by the Association and shall be present for all consideration of the Instructor employee. Such an observer may divulge matters relating to the deliberations of the committee only to higher level committees, the Grievance Sub-Committee or an arbitrator in the event of an appeal. Instructor employees shall cooperate with the decision-making bodies at the departmental, faculty and University level in providing information relevant to their candidacies. (ii) The departmental committee or equivalent shall make a recommendation, and provide reasonable supporting evidence to the appropriate faculty promotion committee, which shall make a recommendation, and provide reasonable supporting evidence to the appropriate xxxx, who shall make the decision whether or not to promote the Instructor employee in question. (iii) The xxxx shall communicate his/her decision in writing to the Instructor employee in question prior to April 1. Where the decision is unfavourable, the xxxx shall give his/her reasons in writing to the Instructor employee. The written communication shall indicate to the Instructor employee at least in which area or areas of performance the xxxx would expect evidence of further development before deciding in favour of promotion, and in order to assist the Instructor employee to appeal, if he/she so wishes, the reasons for the decision shall be given. (iv) A candidate not recommended by the appropriate committee or promoted by the Board of Governors has recourse to the procedures under Article 30 or 10.5 as appropriate. (b) Criteria for Promotion of Instructor Employees (i) Consideration for promotion from Instructor I to Instructor II shall be automatic in the employee's third year of service. (ii) Consideration for promotion from Instructor II to Instructor III shall be automatic in the employee's fourth year in the Instructor II rank. (iii) Outside of this schedule for automatic consideration, an Instructor employee will only be considered for promotion if he/she so requests in writing to the chairperson (or equivalent) of his/her department by October 30 of the year in which he/she wishes to be considered. (iv) For promotion to Instructor II, teaching effectiveness at the norm defined in Article 12.2(f) shall be sufficient unless there is evidence of seriously deficient performance in other assigned areas of responsibility. Where there is such evidence, teaching effectiveness which is well above the norm shall compensate. (v) For promotion to Instructor III, normally teaching effectiveness, level of professional development, and conscientiousness in the performance of assigned non-teaching duties shall all be at or above the norm defined in Article 12.2(f). However, teaching effectiveness which is well above the norm may compensate for achievement somewhat below the norm in the other two (2) areas.