Associate Chair Clause Samples

Associate Chair. When appropriate to meet program needs, a faculty member may be assigned to serve as an associate chair. The associate chair fulfills special duties assigned by the chair to assist in administration and programmatic tasks. The chair maintains leadership for the program. Teaching and Clinical Faculty. Teaching and Clinical faculty members are appointed to fixed-term contracts of one (1) academic year, a twelve (12) month period that meets program needs, or two (2) years when needed for accreditation purposes. Teaching and Clinical faculty are responsible for a specific set of responsibilities during their term of employment, drawn from the four (4) areas of Core faculty workload and delineated in the offer letter. Teaching and Clinical faculty members are eligible for multi-year contracts as stipulated above, and their contracts expire by their terms at the end of an academic year. Successful completion of an annual contract does not create an entitlement to an additional contract. Teaching and Clinical faculty are not subject to the notice of nonrenewal as specified in the University’s non-renewal policy. Except as provided in Section 9.3, annually-contracted faculty members will be issued employment contracts that provide for three (3) academic quarters of active teaching and campus service.