Staffing Criteria

Staffing Criteria – Professorial

A primary consideration in developing these criteria is the importance of creating reasonable and equitable working conditions for BUFA Professorial Members. The overall aim of this document is to contribute to real transparency in the Provost’s decision-making with regards to all BUFA staffing requests in the professorial ranks.

In a time of fiscal restraint and negligible growth in tuition revenues, many worthy requests for additional professorial positions will go unfilled. With this information in mind, and prior to exerting significant effort and energy in developing staffing requests, it is recommended that Departments first look to: ways in which current departmental work can be modified to realize acceptable efficiencies; ways in which their Department’s situation compares to that of other units across campus; and critically evaluate how an additional professorial position would sustainably improve the experiences of students and faculty.

Professorial Staffing Criteria:

All eight of the following criteria are to apply in all annual staffing planning decisions.

  1. Departmental requests for additional positions must include documentation demonstrating departmental efforts to deliver academically or professionally sound programs in an efficient manner
  2. EDID considerations
  3. Proportion of teaching staffed by CAS instructors or temporary arrangements
  4. Program integrity and student experience
  5. Balance of workload within a program
  6. Direction from institutional Academic Plan, and from any of the following that are relevant: the institutional Strategic Plan, Research Plan, Cyclical Program Reviews, and/or Faculty/Department/Unit Strategic Plans
  7. Disciplinary responsiveness, collaborations, and renewal
  8. Fulsome Participation in Departmental Work and Collegial Governance

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Staffing Criteria – Professional

A primary consideration in developing these criteria is the importance of creating reasonable and equitable working conditions for BUFA Professional Members. The overall aim of this document is to contribute to real transparency in the Provost’s decision-making with regards to all BUFA staffing requests in the professional ranks.

In a time of fiscal restraint and negligible growth in tuition revenues, many worthy requests for additional professional positions will go unfilled. With this information in mind, and prior to exerting significant effort and energy in developing staffing requests, it is recommended that Departments first look to: ways in which current departmental work can be modified to realize acceptable efficiencies; ways in which their Department’s situation compares to that of other units across campus; and critically evaluate how an additional professional position would sustainably improve the experiences of students and faculty.

Professional Staffing Criteria:

All eight of the following criteria are to apply in all annual staffing planning decisions. All criteria are to be weighted equally.

  1. Departmental requests for additional positions must include documentation demonstrating Departmental efforts to deliver academically or professionally sound programs in an efficient manner
  2. EDID considerations
  3. Proportion of professional workload staffed by Contract Academic Staff (CAS)
  4. Program integrity and student/stakeholder experience
  5. Balance of professional workload within a Department
  6. Direction from institutional Strategic Plan and Academic Plan, as well as any of the following which are relevant: Research Plan, Cyclical Program Reviews, and/or Faculty/Unit/Department strategic plans
  7. Disciplinary responsiveness, collaborations, and renewal and/or disciplinary trends in demand for student/stakeholder programming
  8. Fulsome participation in Departmental work and collegial governance

See full document here.