Scheduling (20)
The contract terms in this category specified how distance education courses were scheduled and who was scheduled to teach them. Twenty colleges included a term about scheduling in their negotiated agreements. Scheduling is a permissive topic of bargaining in most states, though Illinois mentions scheduling specifically as a mandatory topic.
Examples
Observations. As mentioned previously, the initial creation of a distance education course takes a good deal of time and energy on the part of the faculty member preparing it and on the part of supporting staff and resources. With such an investment, it makes sense to insure the parties that all effort will be made to offer the course and that the person who did all of the work should, for some specified time, have the right to teach it if they choose. The inclusion of this term is also good practice on the part of an institution wishing to encourage greater faculty participation in distance education. If faculty fear that all their hard work will be for nothing, they will be unlikely to take the risk. Scheduling terms can offer some reassurance for all involved.