Rutgers Council of AAUP Chapters / 2003-2007 Contract / Article III. Recognition

From CGEU

1. The University recognizes AAUP as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of all Rutgers University faculty members, teaching assistants and graduate assistants as hereinafter defined. Groups of employees may be added or deleted by mutual consent of the parties.

2. The terms "faculty member" and "faculty members" shall include all of the following academic personnel currently employed or to be employed by Rutgers to discharge at least one-half (50%) of a full-time academic job assignment:

(a) All faculty members with the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, assistant instructor, lecturer, research associate and adjunct faculty who are engaged in instruction, research, or other academic service; and

(b) Members of the research, library, general extension, and cooperative extension staffs and those others, who, by virtue of University regulations hold equivalent rank (see Appendix A) to the faculty categories enumerated in (a) above.

(c) Faculty members who are engaged in instruction and/or research for fifty percent or more of their time during the academic year and who hold the title of associate dean, assistant dean, assistant to dean or academic director.

3. The terms "graduate assistant" and "graduate assistants" and "teaching assistant" and "teaching assistants" shall include all University personnel holding the titles of graduate assistant and teaching assistant.

4. Excluded are all officers of administration including deans, associate deans, assistant deans, assistants to deans, academic directors who are not engaged in instruction or research for fifty percent or more of their time during the academic year, visiting professors, honorary professors, fellows, all members of the coadjutant staff, all those persons who administer or help to administer a major academic unit or program of the University, and all other employees of the University.

5. Teaching assistants and graduate assistants shall be covered by this Agreement except to the extent specifically provided for herein.