Teaching for Credit

In 1990 the University promulgated a policy restricting the teaching of credit courses by UCPEA professionals, except when their services were purchased from their home department, provided they met the requirements for being a teacher of record.  They could not receive additional pay for any credit teaching activity.  With the subsequent modifications of the consulting policy and the needs of the University for instructional staff in fields impacted by technology especially, we have reconsidered this policy.

We therefore propose the following to be effective beginning January 1, 2000.

Policy

Teaching in this context means "instructor of record for credit courses", and this responsibility is contractually assigned to the faculty. Therefore if teaching is a requirement of the position, the job belongs in AAUP. It follows therefore that for-credit teaching is not, and cannot ge, a requirement of an UCPEA position. The policy addresses the instruction of academic subjects and excludes courses associated with the Freshmen Year Experience.

In the exceptional instance where an academic department identifies a currently employed, non-teaching professional, as a potential instructor, the University must be satisfied that the additional time is not excessive and that it neither directly nor indirectly interferes with his/her regular work at the University.

Procedure

The academic department will follow established hiring procedures to offer a non-teaching professional an appointment as a Special Payroll Lecturer. The hiring department will initiate and receive a completed dual employment form (State Form PER-DE-1) reflecting necessary approvals, before the offer letter and payroll authorization are submitted.  The UCPEA professional will submit a completed consulting form in all instances where the instructional subject is even remotely related to their regular position. A failure to submit completely approved dual employment and consulting forms prior to the beginning of the teaching assignment will prohibit payment for the instructional activity until those forms have been provided. As we move toward electronic payroll processing, the actual forms must be submitted to Human Resources, in order to permit payment to the individual employee.

The for-credit instructional activity on the part of an individual employee may not exceed 6 credits in an academic year and the following summer, not more than 4 credits in a single semester.

Questions about the implementation of the policy may be directed to Aliza Wilder in the Employment Services of Human Resources. She is best reached by e-mail at: aliza.wilder@uconn.edu.