Supplementary Professional Activities (SPA) Sample Clauses
Supplementary Professional Activities (SPA). 8.1 This Article shall apply to full-time staff members with Career Status and Term 12 Status appointments.
8.2 A staff member who is a full-time employee has a primary obligation to fulfill University responsibilities. The staff member shall remain current with recent developments in the discipline through personal professional development.
8.3 One means of accomplishing professional development may be through professional activity which is supplementary to the primary obligations to the University.
8.4 Subject to the provisions of this Article, a staff member may engage in SPA. SPA shall not prevent, hinder or unduly interfere with the staff member’s primary responsibilities.
8.5 Without restricting the generality of the term SPA, this category shall include any of the following:
a) employment in any capacity by another employer including the carrying out of teaching duties, e.g., summer session at another university;
b) consulting;
c) personal services contract; or
d) private practice of the staff member’s profession, e.g., dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, etc.
8.6 A staff member shall obtain written approval of the Department Chair prior to undertaking major SPA. Prior to approving SPA, the Department Chair shall ensure that primary University responsibilities will be performed satisfactorily.
8.7 If there is a dispute with respect to a staff member’s SPA, the staff member shall have recourse to the ▇▇▇▇ and the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, in that order. The decision of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ shall be final and binding.
8.8 The conditions governing SPA are set out in Appendix C.
Supplementary Professional Activities (SPA).
8.01 A staff member is a full-time employee and has a primary obligation to fulfil University responsibilities. The staff member shall remain current with recent developments in the discipline through personal professional development.
8.02 Under certain circumstances it is appropriate for staff members to assume responsibilities at the University in addition to their regular duties and for which they may receive additional remuneration. These shall be duties which are performed outside regular office hours or while on vacation, e.g. lecturing in evening session, lecturing in Extension non-credit courses, etc. Requests to assume additional responsibilities shall be submitted, in writing, to the ▇▇▇▇.
8.03 A staff member who proposes to engage in activities outside the University which are related to his or her duties at the University or which are of a consulting nature, whether during regular University office hours or not, shall so inform his or her immediate supervisor. If the proposed activities are during regular office hours, the permission of the immediate supervisor, in writing, must be obtained prior to the staff member undertaking the activities. If University facilities are proposed to be used in the conduct of the outside activities, the permission of the immediate supervisor, in writing, must be obtained prior to the staff member utilizing such facilities. If the staff member expects to make extensive use of such facilities, the staff member may be required to reimburse the University for such use.
8.04 Care must be taken by the staff member that the outside activities are not in conflict of interest with the University duties.
8.05 Supplementary professional activities may be taken into account in the evaluation of a staff member’s performance for continuing appointment, increments and promotion.
Supplementary Professional Activities (SPA). 9.01 This Article shall apply to all full-time staff members.