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Academic Affairs Manual

Summer I and II

Summer I and II courses may be taught by bargaining unit faculty, adjunct or part-time instructors in accordance with Western/WMU-AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement and departmental policies and procedures.

1. Bargaining Unit Faculty

• Additional Faculty Appointment (Instructional)
  Contractual teaching load during the “off semester or session”-up to 6 hours for bargaining unit faculty who are not faculty specialists and up to 6 hours for faculty specialists
  
  
• Additional Faculty Appointment (Non-Instructional)
  Faculty who are performing non-instructional duties, such as summer advising, grant research, administrative duties, etc.

• Faculty Overload Appointment
  Teaching load beyond the contractual maximum full-time workload in any given semester or session.  Paid at overload rates.

• Letters-of-offer must be generated and signed for all of these types of appointments for bargaining unit faculty. 

• All additional and overload faculty appointments are processed via the PeopleSoft electronic workflow

2. Adjunct and part-time appointments

• Letters-of-offer must be generated and signed for all of these types of appointment for adjunct and part-time teaching appointments

• All adjunct and part-time faculty appointments are processed via the PeopleSoft electronic workflow

• See also Appointment Procedures for Part-time Faculty and Procedures for Appointing Adjunct Faculty

3. Please refer to FTE chart if desired