Summer Employment Policy
Adopted by the tenured faculty of the Mathematics Department in November, 1987
The purpose of this policy is to provide for summer teaching positions to be offered to the faculty in an equitable manner, subject to the needs of academic programs and budgetary constraints. Teaching positions for graduate students in Mathematics in good standing will be provided in accordance with Paragraph A below. Also, the Executive Committee may authorize summer teaching positions for those faculty members needed for specialized instruction or administration. Half-time summer teaching will be offered to those faculty receiving half-time administrative summer positions from the Department. The remaining summer teaching positions will be distributed according to the procedures described below.
Continuing faculty are those full-time faculty with continuing full-time appointments beyond the current academic year, determined as of the dates for reappointment. Faculty on sabbatical leave will be considered full-time; this determination for those faculty on leave of absence without pay will be made by the Executive Committee on the basis of whether or not the activity undertaken during the leave was of the a type which could be beneficial to the Department. Faculty on part-time appointment have no priority for summer teaching, however. Non-continuing faculty who are full-time will not be eligible for summer teaching unless all requests from continuing faculty have been satisfied, except for the case of retiring faculty as covered in Paragraph C below.
Every full-time faculty member will be assigned a priority number, calculated in accordance with Paragraph B below, with the lowest priority number carrying the highest priority for summer teaching.
It is the intent of the Department to provide an opportunity of summer teaching to those faculty who contribute to its two primary missions of teaching and research. Thus, except for the provisions below, the professorial-rank faculty, instructors, and teaching associates will be treated equally with respect to summer school teaching eligibility. Continuing full-time faculty will be offered summer teaching positions based on their priority numbers.
Non-continuing faculty will be offered any remaining positions in accordance with their priority numbers.
Technical Paragraphs
Paragraph A.
Deserving graduate students in Mathematics shall be offered summer teaching subject to the stipulations which follow. At least one section of each multi-section course should be taught by a faculty member. Graduate Students will normally be assigned only courses numbered below 1550. Counting each Graduate Assistant's teaching load as 1/2 full time equivalent (FTE), the graduate assistants shall be assigned a maximum of 40% of the Summer Term FTE's. The Graduate Committee, acting in concert with the Vice-Chairman for Instruction, shall decide which graduate students will have priority for summer teaching, subject to the limitations above.Paragraph B.
Denote by p1 the fraction of full-time summer pay earned by a particular faculty member from the Mathematics Department's Summer Term Budgets during the most recent summer term. Let p2 be the corresponding fraction for the preceding summer and p3 the analogous fraction for the summer before that. The highest priority for summer teaching will be assigned to those faculty for whom the sum P=p1+p2+p3 is smallest. To resolve ties, higher priority will go to the faculty member for whom p1 is smaller, and, in case of further ties, higher priority will go to the faculty member for whom p2 is smaller. Any remaining ties will be resolved by the Chairman on the basis of earlier history. The following additional rules will be applied in calculating priority numbers.- Faculty members will have their priority numbers calculated as though any summers between two consecutive semesters of leave did not exist.
- All newly hired tenured and tenure track faculty will have artificial histories of p1=0, p2=1/2. and p3=1, followed by an endless sequence of ones. Also, these new faculty members will be offered summer term teaching during the first summer following the beginning of the appointment.
- All newly hired non-tenure track faculty will have artificial histories of p1=1, p2=1/2, and p3=1, followed by an endless sequence of ones. If such a faculty member is converted to tenure track, the artificial history will change to that of No. 2, above, effective with the date of initial service.