Common use of Limitations on Grievances Clause in Contracts

Limitations on Grievances. 1. Academic Judgments For the purposes of this Article, every decision required pursuant to Article IX relative to Evaluation, Articles VII and VIII relative to Reappointment (where grievable only after September 15 in the fourth year of service and nonrenewal of Contract)1, Promotion and Tenure, to Article XIII relative to Retrenchment, as the case may require to renew or fail to renew an academic appointment, to terminate any such appointment except as provided in Article XIV for Dismissal, to grant or refuse to grant tenure, or to grant or refuse to grant a promotion, and no other decision, shall be deemed to have been pursuant to an exercise of academic judgment; and every grievance that, explicitly or by implication, questions the merits of any such decision, but of no other decision, shall be deemed to be a grievance that questions an exercise of academic judgment. Academic judgment may not be grieved except under the criteria provided herein in the section on Arbitration and Academic Judgment.