Common use of Academic Workload Clause in Contracts

Academic Workload. 3. Members shall comply with all properly established regulations of the University, which are not at variance with this Agreement. Members shall accept responsibility for participation in the effective operation of the University, including responsibilities for academic counselling, registration, and the supervision of examinations as appropriately assigned by the unit, the ▇▇▇▇ or the Registrar's office consistent with Senate policy. During examinations, only the head invigilator shall be a faculty Member. The head invigilator shall be selected randomly from the LUFA full-time faculty membership and the names of those who serve shall be removed from the pool of potential head invigilators until all remaining Members have served. The names of those Members not scheduling any of their final examinations through the Registrar’s Office, will not be included in the pool for the examination period concerned. 4. It is the responsibility of Members to deal ethically and fairly with students and their academic colleagues in relation to their own teaching. Ethical and fair dealing with students and colleagues includes respecting the Laurentian Policy and Procedures on Personal or Sexual Harassment. It is also the responsibility of Members to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ a free exchange of ideas including a discussion of differing views, to avoid discrimination, to respect the principles of confidentiality in a manner consistent with the performance of their academic role, and to acknowledge their indebtedness to students and their academic colleagues in relation to their own teaching. 5. Each Member shall have freedom of discussion. However, in the exercise of this freedom in the classroom, reasonable restraint shall be used in introducing matters unrelated to his/her subject or discipline. 6. Members shall be free to organise and to structure classroom and laboratory activities and to adopt reasonable means to maintain a learning environment, which is both productive and orderly. They shall have the right to rule on the use by students of recording devices and calculating devices in the classroom, laboratory or learning situation. 7. Members shall not alter or cancel scheduled instruction except with prior permission of the Chairperson/Director in any but exceptional circumstances. Such permission shall not be unreasonably refused. Both parties agree that every reasonable effort will be made to notify the students affected. Timetable changes of a permanent nature require the prior permission of the ▇▇▇▇. Absences are governed by Article 3.6 - Absence - General.