Common use of Professional Development Workload Equivalencies Clause in Contracts

Professional Development Workload Equivalencies. FTNTT Faculty members may request and be considered for a three (3) credit hour Professional Development Workload Equivalency. Two conditions must be met in order for a FTNTT Faculty member to request consideration of a workload equivalency for the purposes of professional development. The FTNTT Faculty member i) must have successfully completed at least one (1) Full Performance Review; and ii) must be serving at least the first year of a three-year term of annually renewable appointments, as described in Article X, at the time of the submitted request. A. If these conditions are met, a FTNTT Faculty member may request consideration for a Professional Development Workload Equivalency through the unit administrator (department chair, school director, college xxxx or regional campus xxxx, as applicable). The written request shall state the rationale for the proposed workload equivalency and the work that the bargaining unit member intends to accomplish with the requested workload equivalency, as that work relates to the FTNTT Faculty member’s instructional and/or other professional services within the unit. B. The approval of any request for a workload equivalency for professional development shall be at the sole discretion of the University through the unit administrator in consultation with the appropriate advisory bodies or college xxxx, if applicable. C. The FTNTT Faculty member must request consideration for such workload equivalency no later than November 1 of the academic year preceding the regular academic year for which the workload equivalency would be approved.

Professional Development Workload Equivalencies. FTNTT Faculty members may request and be considered for a three (3) credit hour Professional Development Workload Equivalency. Two conditions must be met in order for a FTNTT Faculty member to request consideration of a workload equivalency for the purposes of professional development. The FTNTT Faculty member i) must have successfully completed at least one (1) Full Performance Review; and ii) must be serving at least the first year of a three-three- year term of annually renewable appointments, as described in Article X, at the time of the submitted request. A. If these conditions are met, a FTNTT Faculty member may request consideration for a Professional Development Workload Equivalency through the unit administrator (department chair, school director, college xxxx or regional campus xxxx, as applicable). The written request shall state the rationale for the proposed workload equivalency and the work that the bargaining unit member intends to accomplish with the requested workload equivalency, as that work relates to the FTNTT Faculty member’s instructional and/or other professional services within the unit. B. The approval of any request for a workload equivalency for professional development shall be at the sole discretion of the University through the unit administrator in consultation with the appropriate advisory bodies or college xxxx, if applicable. C. The FTNTT Faculty member must request consideration for such workload equivalency no later than November 1 of the academic year preceding the regular academic year for which the workload equivalency would be approved.