1. Full-time Faculty are employed by BAMSI for the entire Calendar Year.
2. It is understood that the needs of the College extend to all campuses.
3. It is expected that Faculty attend
3.1 Monthly General Faculty meetings.
3.2 School/Unit and Departmental meetings.
3.3 Graduation ceremonies.
3.4 Two (2) days of professional development, which shall be scheduled at the beginning of the Academic Year.
3.4.1 Should there be a need for additional professional development days, the Union shall be consulted.
3.4.2 The Union must be intrinsically involved with the planning of all professional development days, including the annual Faculty Seminar.
3.4.3 Professional development days shall not be scheduled on weekends or during midterm or any other official College breaks.
3.5 Other College milestones through invitation.
4. The Duties and Responsibilities of Counsellors fall under three general categories: Counselling, Research/Scholarship/Creative Work, and Service.
4.1 Counselling duties include, but are not limited to:
4.1.1 Providing individual and group counselling to students seeking assistance with academic, career-vocational, or psycho-social concerns/problems.
4.1.2 Developing and presenting developmental seminars and workshops.
4.1.3 Teaching student development seminars (COUN100) each semester.
4.1.4 Preparing and maintaining case records, reports and statistics on clients and monitoring and evaluating counselling services.
4.1.5 Providing crisis and short-term counselling interventions and consulting and/or referral to psychiatric and/or medical resources.
4.1.6 Providing consultation, resources, workshops and training programmes by applying special therapeutic skills and conducting support programmes.
4.1.7 Providing services for the retention of “at risk students.”
4.1.8 Being available to students outside of normal hours.
4.1.9 Keeping current in one’s discipline and integrating current thinking from the discipline into practice.
4.1.10 Coordinating and managing a specific area and/or specified portfolio.
4.1.11 Liaising with Human Resources to conduct critical incident debriefing for traumatic events or other critical incidents.
4.1.12 Consulting with College Faculty, staff and relevant community professionals on issues related to the development needs (academic, career/vocational, psycho-social) of students.
4.2 Research/Scholarship/Creative Work includes, but is not limited to:
4.2.1 Research, scholarly and/or creative work within the member’s field that contributes to the expansion and application of knowledge and enhances counselling and learning;
4.2.2 Dissemination of work through publishing in respected publications, presentation of scholarly papers and exhibitions; and
4.2.3 On-going and major project development.
4.3 Service to the College and/or Community includes a minimum of four (4) hours per week of administrative and committee work which includes, but is not limited to:
4.3.1 Serving on College-wide committees or boards.
4.3.2 Participating in College-related activities, student activities, and/or special programmes.
4.3.3 Sharing of the administrative work of the Department/ Unit, College and BAMSI.
4.3.4 Taking an active role in scientific, cultural, educational, professional, governmental, civic and social bodies and events, inclusive of serving on national and/or international committees, boards and commissions, together with those activities which are relevant to, and compatible with, the professorial role.
4.4 From time to time the Union shall appoint its Members to ad hoc committees whose work can be considered service to the College or Community. The Union shall inform the College of the terms of reference for those committee and the names of appointees.
5. Counselling duties shall be assigned in a fair and equitable manner by the Director and Assistant Director in consultation with the Faculty Member on the basis of his/her skills, expertise, research interests and the needs of the campus.
5.1 The Vice President of Student Affairs (VPSA) shall have responsibility to monitor the assignment of counselling duties.
5.2 In monitoring the duties of Counsellors, it is the role of the VPSA to ensure equity and adherence to College policies (provided these policies do not violate the terms of this Agreement).
6 Reduction of Counselling Duties
6.1 Faculty are required to inform their practices with research. The Employer shall provide the support services that are necessary for this to occur within approved budgetary allocations and/or the exigencies of the College.
6.2 Where a Faculty Member is involved in research that requires significant involvement, he/she may, in writing, request a reduction in workload. Such requests should be submitted to the Director and copied to the relevant Vice President. Normally, a written request should be submitted four (4) months prior to the semester affected. Upon receipt of such requests, the Director must respond to the Faculty Member in writing within ten (10) working days.