Common use of Priority of Assignment Clause in Contracts

Priority of Assignment. 1. To the extent possible within the above parameters, academic units and campuses should endeavor to distribute equitably summer opportunities to work among members of the faculty. It is recognized that certain intersession and summer academic programs and courses offered to meet programmatic need may require particular expertise not normally present, or present only to a limited extent, among the full-time faculty of an academic unit or campus and that priority in assignment to courses to be scheduled is otherwise to go to continuing tenured and tenure-track members of the unit/campus' faculty. 2. On the Kent Campus, FTNTT Faculty members within the academic unit are to receive the next priority in consideration for assignments to instructional opportunities during a summer session or intersession. 3. For the Regional Campuses, after tenured/tenure-track faculty members on the campus and in the Regional Campus System, FTNTT Faculty members at their resident regional campus and then FTNTT Faculty members in the Regional Campus system are to receive the next priority in consideration for assignment to instructional opportunities during a summer session or intersession. This priority in consideration shall pertain, however, only to bargaining unit members who have submitted a letter expressing an interest in a summer/intersession assignment by a date established by the appropriate administrative officer. However, in an instance in which a tenured/tenure-track faculty member assigned to teach a course should subsequently decline or be unable to fulfill the assignment and another qualified tenured/tenure-track faculty member is not available and willing to accept the assignment, the expectation of the parties to this Agreement is that every reasonable effort should be made to make the assignment available to a qualified FTNTT Faculty member resident at the campus at which the course is to be offered before assigning the course to a part-time or non-university faculty member.