shall be eligible to apply for and shall be given priority for compensated overload or assignment for teaching during summer sessions and J-terms of the University at the then prevailing overload rates (provided that they apply by the deadline), except that priority for summer teaching shall be given to faculty who have not received a summer fellowship. Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty may teach up to fifteen contact hours per each fall and spring semester (or the applied contact-hour equivalent). Nine of such contact hours will be taught in load; the additional contact hours, if any, will be counted and compensated on an overload basis. However, Faculty receiving a course release in a given fall or spring semester may teach a maximum of 12 contact hours during that semester, six of which will be counted as in-load teaching, with the additional contact hours, if any, counted and compensated as overload teaching. Per past practice, independent studies, supervised studies, and internships/co- ops not under the umbrella of a course will not be counted in the supervising faculty member's fall or spring workload calculation for purposes of determining the fifteen contact-hour maximum. Directed studies also will not be counted as part of the faculty member's fall or spring workload calculation for purposes of determining the fifteen contact-hour maximum. A faculty member who agrees to teach a minimester course will not have that course counted in her/his teaching workload for that semester for purposes of determining the fifteen contact-hour maximum. No bargaining unit member may teach more than six contact hours in a six-week mini-session or three contact hours in a three-week mini- session. Full-time Lecturers may teach three contact-hours overload for a maximum of fifteen contact hours per fall or spring semester. Assignments for compensated overload shall be made by the University upon the recommendation of the appropriate department or program. Bargaining unit members shall not be required to accept overload assignments. Unassigned Teaching and Directed Studies Unassigned Teaching. If the needed courses and/or sections have been staffed, but the assigned teaching workload of each full-time faculty member within the department has not reached the normal teaching limits stated below, then the members of the department shall so advise the dean,
Any change in scheduling of classes from the normal for such classes will require approval of the affected bargaining unit member, the applicable department, and the appropriate dean. Whenever possible, any such changes will be provided for during the normal workload planning process. Maximum Preparations No full-time member of the bargaining unit whose department is based in the College of Business Administration, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, or School of Education shall be required to teach more than four (4) different courses during an academic year or more than two (2) different courses during a single academic semester. Maximum preparations at Westminster Choir College shall be governed by past practice. Faculty Teaching Outside of Their Departments Full-time members of the faculty may teach (but may not be required to teach) outside of their departments with the approval of the department or program within which the teaching will occur. Such teaching shall either be on an overload basis or with the mutual agreement of the faculty member, the faculty member’s department, and the department or program within which the teaching will occur, on an in-load basis. Beyond one such course per semester, the faculty member’s dean’s approval is also required. Faculty Rank Prerequisite Only persons with faculty rank be permitted to offer courses (a "course" is any formal student/faculty contact including those that occur face-to-face in a classroom, independent studies, internships, directed readings, internships, applied performance classes, applied performance lessons, or that may run at a distance as defined in Article XXXII(D)) for credit, non-credit courses required for the Rider curriculum, or courses for which Rider will provide certification of completion. Subject matter tutoring in the Math Skills Lab by individuals who are not included in the bargaining unit that has occurred prior to this Agreement may continue to be conducted by such individuals, who will not be included in the bargaining unit. Except for the foregoing, only members of the bargaining unit and members of the faculty explicitly exempted from membership in the bargaining unit in Article I shall provide students with subject matter tutoring and advising. Tutors and counselors who are not members of the bargaining unit shall be limited to tutoring and advising in such areas as study strategies, coping with stress, recommendations concerning reasonable accommodations for students with learning disabilities, and other non-subject matter tutoring.