"Board" means the Board of
Trustees of Union County College.
"Chapter" means the Union County
College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
"College" means Union County
College.
"President" means the President
of the College.
"Academic Vice President" means
the Vice President of Academic Affairs of the College.
"Academic Officers" means the
President, Academic Vice President, Director of Libraries, Academic Deans or others
carrying similar titles to whom the Board has delegated academic responsibilities.
"Instructional staff" means all
persons employed by the Board or its agents who teach at the College.
"Professional library staff"
means all persons employed by the Board or its agents who perform professional library
work at the College.
"Full-time members of the
instructional staff" means all individuals who are members of the instructional staff
and who normally are assigned to teach thirty (30) credit hours or their equivalent credit
hours each academic year, or are assigned to teach fifteen (15) credit hours or their
equivalent credit hours each semester.
"Full-time members of the professional
library staff" means all individuals who are members of the professional library
staff and who normally are assigned to a thirty-five (35) hour work week over a twelve
(12) month period.
"Faculty" means all full-time
members of the instructional staff and all full-time members of the professional library
staff.
"Courses for college credit"
means courses for which Union County College gives credits.
"Credit or equivalent contact
hour" means fifty (50) minutes of classroom instruction, fifty (50) - sixty (60)
minutes of laboratory or teaching clinic instruction, fifty (50) minutes of TAC (Theme
Analysis Conference), 100 minutes of art, television, drama studio instruction and
practice laboratories in sign language, and 150 minutes in the film viewing component of
courses in film, liaison clinics, and practical nursing clinics.
"Laboratory" means any laboratory
which is offered to students as a course of instruction or as part of a course of
instruction but does not mean any specialized facility or program in which students
receive help on an individualized basis.
"Department" means an academic
department of the College.
"Specialized facility" means a
facility in which students receive help on an individualized basis through the means of
auto-tutorial media and/or peer instruction and/or assistance by a laboratory instructor
and/or consultation with a faculty member as part of a course of instruction or on a
referral or walk-in basis but does not mean "Laboratory" as defined in Section N
of this Article or art and drama studio instruction or TAC (Theme) Analysis Conference) or
clinic.
"Academic year" means two (2)
semesters of approximately equal length over a thirty-two (32) week period of
instructional activity, including up to two (2) weeks of examinations during each semester
between September 1 and June 30, and except that faculty teaching in the Licensed Practical Nursing Program and
faculty teaching in the Respiratory Therapy Program may be required to teach during the
summer months. For such teaching the faculty in the Licensed Practical Nursing and
Respiratory Therapy Programs shall be compensated at the rate specified in Article XXI
(Compensation), I. This summer obligation shall not extend their total academic year
teaching obligation beyond a total of forty-four (44) weeks and shall not extend beyond
August 31.
"Tenure-track appointment" means
the appointment of a faculty member who is eligible for tenure provided that the faculty
member meets the requirements for reappointment and tenure and that there are no other
conditions which would preclude reappointment or tenure.
"Non-tenure track appointment"
means a three-year appointment as defined in Article XI (Faculty Appointments), Section
3c. A "replacement appointment" is an appointment for the purpose of replacing a
full-time faculty member who is on leave for a period not to exceed one academic year as
specified in Article XI (Faculty Appointments), Section 3b.
"Teaching clinic" means
instruction in which a faculty member teaches and supervises students who are developing
abilities and skills by working with actual medical patients.
"Field work supervision" means
the placing, supervision, scheduling, and evaluating of students who are assigned as a
course or as part of a course, to work at an off-campus site or facility in which the
student develops skills and abilities related to the course or discipline. It also
includes the faculty member visiting the facility or site and maintaining communication
and coordinating with both students and supervisors and holding classes or seminars for
the students.
"Liaison clinic" means field work
supervision as defined in Section U of this Article, but in which the course taken by the
students is in a medical discipline and involves the students in working with actual
medical patients and/or the medical records of patients.
Distance Learning. The term "distance
learning" refers to a method of instruction, either synchronous or asynchronous,
which links any Union County College campus or location to one another and/or to any
remote facilities or facilities located at off-campus locations including, but not limited
to, other colleges, high schools, vocational schools, trade schools, corporations,
companies, independent instructional entities and consortia, local, national, or
international. These locations may be linked utilizing technological methods of
instruction which may include, but are not limited to, fiber-optics transmission, use of
satellites, ISDN, cable TV, microwave transmission, modem transmission, computer network,
e-mail, and ITV.
Seniority. For the purpose of assigning
classes to full time members of the instructional staff, seniority shall be based upon the
total number of years of full time teaching in a department. For the purpose of
implementing Article XXX (Reduction in Force and Seniority), seniority shall be based upon
the total number of years of full time teaching in a department, except where a faculty
member has taught in more than one department in which case seniority shall be based upon
the total number of years of full time teaching at the College, or in the case of full
time members of the professional library staff, seniority shall be based upon the total
number of years of full time professional work in the library.