Common use of TERM CONTRACTS Clause in Contracts

TERM CONTRACTS. ‌ A term contract may be either part-time or full-time and will be of a definite term not to exceed one year or overlap two (2) fiscal years, unless the contract is for a spring-summer or a summer- fall appointment or is otherwise approved by the Board. A term contract will terminate automatically at the end of the term, unless the Board expressly renews the contract. Reasonable effort will be made to notify such faculty unit members, more than thirty (30) days prior to the end of their term, that they will have no further term appointment contract. Failure to so notify will not result in the extension of the appointment. As used in this agreement, “consecutive full-time contracts” include any combination of contracts for nine or more months, so long as no more than five months lapse between the end date of one contract and the start date of a subsequent contract. The parties recognize that faculty unit members who have received several consecutive full- time contracts will come subjectively to expect continued employment on the same basis. Under this agreement, in the absence of an award of tenure, such unilateral expectations, however natural they may be, can never become constitutionally protected property interests.