Faculty Senate Position Statement on Summer Employment of Faculty

In order for faculty and students to make better decisions concerning their summer options, the Faculty Senate position on summer employment is as follows:

1. Summer contracts should be offered stating salary and type of position, i.e. hard or soft.
2. Department chairs, in consultation with their faculty, should work with the Administration on the number of hard positions (enrollment independent) and soft positions (enrollment dependent) his/her department will have in the summer. Faculty in hard positions will have a contract defining a specific number of credit hours and salary. Faculty in soft positions will have a contract stating the position is enrollment dependent. Positions requests will be predicated on the historical summer enrollment data. The decision on the number of both hard and soft positions each department has should be made two weeks prior to the due date of the summer schedule.
3. Each academic department should have some positions that are hard.
4. Full-time faculty should be assigned to these hard positions and paid on the formula [2.5% (.025) X number of credit hours X academic year contract salary].
5. Summer interim courses should be enrollment dependent and faculty should know this by the contract.
6. All courses taught by adjunct and part-time temporary faculty should be enrollment dependent.
7. Off-campus courses should be enrollment dependent and considered supplemental and paid supplemental rates/credit hour.
8. Faculty in hard positions, whose course(s) fail(s) to materialize in full may be reassigned to courses scheduled to be taught within the same department by faculty in soft positions and/or other university duties.