Common use of Sessional Appointments Clause in Contracts

Sessional Appointments. 33.2.1 Sessional Members are appointed to participate in the delivery of academic programming. A range of additional activities may supplement assigned workload in instruction, but these duties will be assumed only at the Member’s discretion. 33.2.2 Sessional Members may choose to participate in discretionary workload activities, for their professional development and for the benefit of the University community. When an appointment decision is made, a Member’s record of effective teaching will be the only relevant consideration. 33.2.3 Sessional Members are appointed, on a term-by-term basis, for a fixed term. 33.2.4 Sessional appointments are not precursors to Full-Time Limited-Term, Tenure- Track, or Tenured appointments. 33.2.5 Sessional appointments are made by the Xxxx on the recommendation of the Chair of an Academic Unit. 33.2.6 Appointments are subject to a record of effective teaching. It is an applicant’s responsibility to provide sufficient information to enable the Chair to assess the applicant’s performance, though the submission of a teaching dossier is optional. The Chair will base the assessment on the information reasonably available to the Chair for the period under review. 33.2.7 A course is considered available to be taught by a Sessional appointee only when it is not used to make up a Full-Time Limited-Term, Tenure-Track, or Tenured Member’s course assignment. 33.2.8 A Sessional Member who has taught in the current academic year will be given first consideration for courses to be sessionally assigned. 33.2.8.1 This consideration will mean an obligation to consider first, and in good faith, the application of any eligible Sessional Member. 33.2.8.2 This consideration does not mean that the University is under the obligation to appoint any Sessional Member. 33.2.9 When a section of a course assigned to a Sessional Member is cancelled or withdrawn from that Member within ten (10) working days of the start of the course, the Sessional Member will be paid, in lieu of a stipend, ten (10) dollars per IH. 33.2.10 Sessional Members will report to their Chair absences due to illness or emergency and will neither be required to pay for a replacement nor to have to find a replacement.

Sessional Appointments. 33.2.1 Sessional Members are appointed to participate in the delivery of academic programming. A range of additional activities may supplement assigned workload in instruction, but these duties will be assumed only at the Member’s discretion.discretion.‌ 33.2.2 Sessional Members may choose to participate in discretionary workload activities, for their professional development and for the benefit of the University community. When an appointment decision is made, a Member’s record of effective teaching will be the only relevant consideration. 33.2.3 Sessional Members are appointed, on a term-by-term basis, for a fixed term. 33.2.4 Sessional appointments are not precursors to Full-Time Limited-Term, Tenure- Track, or Tenured appointments. 33.2.5 Sessional appointments are made by the Xxxx on the recommendation of the Chair of an Academic Unit.Unit.‌ 33.2.6 Appointments are subject to a record of effective teaching. It is an applicant’s responsibility to provide sufficient information to enable the Chair to assess the applicant’s performance, though the submission of a teaching dossier is optional. The Chair will base the assessment on the information reasonably available to the Chair for the period under review. 33.2.7 A course is considered available to be taught by a Sessional appointee only when it is not used to make up a Full-Time Limited-Term, Tenure-Track, or Tenured Member’s course assignment. 33.2.8 A Sessional Member who has taught in the current academic year will be given first consideration for courses to be sessionally assigned. 33.2.8.1 This consideration will mean an obligation to consider first, and in good faith, the application of any eligible Sessional Member. 33.2.8.2 This consideration does not mean that the University is under the obligation to appoint any Sessional Member. 33.2.9 When a section of a course assigned to a Sessional Member is cancelled or withdrawn from that Member within ten (10) working days of the start of the course, the Sessional Member will be paid, in lieu of a stipend, ten (10) dollars per IH. 33.2.10 Sessional Members will report to their Chair absences due to illness or emergency and will neither be required to pay for a replacement nor to have to find a replacement.