TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preamble
Definitions
Article 1: Recognition
Article 2: Consultation
Article 3: Employment
Article 4: Professional Responsibilities
and Assignment of Duties
Article 5: Personnel Files
Article 6: Evaluation and Evaluation Criteria
Article 7: Transfer
Article 8: Financial Exigency
Article 9: Grievance Procedure
Article 10: No Strike – No Lockout
Article 11: Non-Discrimination
Article 12: Management Rights
Article 13: Union Rights
Article 14: Dues Check Off and Portionate Share
Article 15: Facilities and Equipment
Article 16: Minutes Policies and Budgets
Article 17: Notice of Positions
Article 18: Benefits and Leaves
Article 19: Salary
Article 20: Duration – Termination
Acceptance by the Parties
Appendix A: Credit Unit Equialencies
Memoranda of Understanding
Main UPI 4100 Page
and
It is the intent of the Board of Trustees and the Union to promote the quality and effectiveness of education in the Board of Trustees System and to promote high standards of academic excellence in all phases of instruction. The Board and Union also recognize that an effective and harmonious working relationship will facilitate achievement of common objectives and will provide an environment conducive to the delivery of high quality education.
Performance by Designee Any action or responsibility assigned to an official or representative of the Board, the University, or the Union may be performed by a designee of such official or representative.
Titles or Heading or Placement Any titles or headings that are inserted solely for convenience or reference shall not be deemed to limit or change the meaning, construction, or effect of any provision of this Agreement.
Whenever Used in This Agreement:
1. Academic term shall mean a semester.
2. Board shall mean Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University legislatively created to “provide for the management, cooperation, control, and maintenance of the Northern Illinois University”(110 ILCS 685/300-1 et seq.). To the extent provided by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB), the term "Board" shall also refer to any successor agency of the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University as designated in the legislative action noted above.
3. Chapter President shall mean the President of the Northern Illinois University subdivision of the Instructors’ Unit -- UPI Local #4100.
4. Credit Hour shall mean a unit of academic credit assigned by the University in the College Catalog.
5. Credit Unit Equivalency (CUE) shall mean the credit which faculty members receive toward workloads for each instructional or non-instructional assignment.
6. Days shall mean calendar days unless otherwise specified.
7. Department shall mean the University department, division, unit, or other organizational entity in which an employee is primarily employed.
8. Department Chair shall mean the person immediately responsible for the University department, division, unit, or other organizational entity in which a bargaining unit member is primarily employed.
9. Employee shall mean a member of the bargaining unit described in 10.
10. Grievance shall mean a complaint that is properly presented in full compliance with Article 9.
11. Instructors, unless specified otherwise, shall mean all faculty members of the bargaining unit in the ranks of Faculty Assistants, Instructors, and Lecturers who currently hold temporary appointments of 50% or more of a normal faculty appointment at IELRB certification (see Article 1 - Recognition).
12. Intercession shall be defined in accordance with the academic calendar as that period of time following the conclusion of the spring semester and prior to the beginning of the summer session.
13. Program need shall mean any and all administrative determinations with respect to curricular requirements, student demand, projected enrollments, courses to be offered, staffing needs, hiring priorities, instructional and other assignments, and budgetary control, as well as any and all aspects of management rights which are encompassed under Article 12. Determinations related to program need shall be made by the respective Department Chair .
14. State Universities Retirement System (SURS) shall mean the retirement system established by "An Act to Provide for the creation, maintenance, and administration of a Retirement System for the benefit of the staff members of the State Universities and certain affiliated organizations, certain other State educational and scientific agencies and the survivors, dependents, and other beneficiaries of such employees" approved on July 21, 1941, as amended.
15. Summer session shall be defined in accordance with the academic calendar as that scheduled academic period during which instructional activities are afforded in an accelerated format during the months of June, July, and August.
16. Transfer shall mean a change in the designated department/unit within the same bargaining unit in which the employee's appointment is formally located.
17. Union shall mean the University Professionals of Illinois, NIU Instructors’ Unit, Local #4100, an affiliate of the AFT, IFT, and AFL-CIO.
18. Union Officials shall mean the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Chief Negotiator, UPI Executive Board Officer, and Grievance Officer for the NIU Instructors’ Unit, Local #4100.
19. Union President shall mean the President of the UPI Statewide Faculty Local #4100.
20. University shall mean Northern Illinois University or any successor name for Northern Illinois University.
21. University President shall mean the chief administrative officer of Northern Illinois University.
22. University Provost shall mean the chief academic officer of Northern Illinois University.