Temporary Faculty

Additional Jobs

This college policy is intended to ensure that quality in offered courses remains high and that faculty have time to remain current in both their subject area and technology, adequate time to meet with individual students and time to grade substantive written work. 

Information pertaining to the campus policy can be found on the . 

Lecturers

Lecturers may teach up a 100% appointment each semester, including courses taught on all CU campuses and through Continuing Education.* 

* Exception: self-paced courses taught through Continuing Education do not count against teaching limits. 

Process for Generating an Additional Job Letter in the Faculty Member's Primary Unit 

  • Unit secures written/emailed aproval from all applicable authorities (e.g. dean of division).
    • Note: Only required if the faculty member is exceeding 100% time in a term.
  • Faculty member completes Courses Agreed to Teach Grid and submits to unit. 
    • Note: Faculty member must include all courses taught for all units in the CU systems on the Courses Agreed to Teach Grid.  
    • Note: Courses Agreed to Teach Grids completed by the unit, rather than the faculty member themselves, are invalid. 
  • Unit submits the following to faculty affairs coordinator for review via email at cas-faculty@colorado.edu: 
  • Draft offer letter reviewed by faculty affairs coordinator. 
  • Once approved by faculty affairs coordinator, approved offer letter is routed by faculty affairs coordinator with CC to the following via DocuSign: 
    • Unit 
    • Boulder campus Human Resources Service Center 
  • CAS faculty affairs coordinator downloads completed letter to personnel file. 
  • Appointment entered in HCM (human resources software) by the campus Human Resources Service Center. 
  • If any changes to the offer letter are needed after approval, fill out an addendum form. 

Process for Generating an Additional Job Letter in the Faculty Member's Non-Primary Unit 

 

Reviewed 25 January 2024