Common use of Workload Assignment Clause in Contracts

Workload Assignment. a) The workload of a Teaching Faculty Member shall be 80% Teaching and 20% Service/Other. Deviations from this weighting of up to 15% are permitted to reflect a Teaching Faculty Member’s specific activities and priorities, as determined by the ▇▇▇▇ in discussion with the Teaching Faculty Member. b) The Annual Workload Plan for each Teaching Faculty Member shall be assigned by his or her ▇▇▇▇ after consultation with the Teaching Faculty Member. The ▇▇▇▇ shall then provide each Teaching Faculty Member with an opportunity to respond to his or her tentative assignment before the ▇▇▇▇ finalizes the workload assignments. Specific teaching assignments will be finalized before July 1st. c) If a Teaching Faculty Member encounters difficulty with the workload plan assigned by the ▇▇▇▇ he/she shall indicate to the ▇▇▇▇ that a meeting is necessary to discuss possible revisions to the plan. d) The Teaching Faculty Members’ Teaching workloads may vary. Workloads shall be consistent with norms in the discipline. In assigning this component of a Teaching Faculty Member’s workload and whether there will be any variation in the number of courses, the ▇▇▇▇ shall consider the following factors: i. the experience of the Teaching Faculty Member; ii. the Teaching Faculty Member’s area of expertise; iii. class size; iv. the number of separate courses/sections taught by the Teaching Faculty Member; v. whether the course or lab is team taught; vi. the number of scheduled contact hours per course; vii. whether the course is to be delivered in a compressed timeframe (e.g., in the Spring/Summer session); viii. whether or not the Teaching Faculty Member has ever taught the material before; ix. whether or not the material or course being taught is newly developed; x. whether the mode of delivery for the course has been changed; xi. what is appropriate and reasonable for the discipline; xii. the number of hours of student counseling/advising; xiii. the number of undergraduate student projects supervised, capstone students, internships, independent study students, clinical supervisions, and undergraduate thesis students; xiv. the extent of teaching support provided by teaching assistants, markers, and similar personnel; and xv. the extent of support provided for designing, setting up, and preparing for Teaching. e) The ▇▇▇▇ shall consider in particular 16.04 d) i), iii), iv), viii), ix), xiv) and xv) in determining the workload assignment of a Teaching Faculty Member in his/her first year of employment at UOIT. f) If circumstances require the ▇▇▇▇ to change the assigned workload less than two