United Academics - AAUP/AFT (UNAC)  Collective Bargaining Agreement - January 1, 2022- December 31, 2024

Janus 2018 Decision 

UA Memo on Janus Decision: June 27, 2018 (PDF)

• Staff and student employees outside employment disclosure form

• CRCD Initial Salary Placement (Word)
• Provost's Office Policy for Faculty Hires (To Be Updated - Available Soon)
• Initial Salary Placement (Word)
• Initial Salary Placement FAQs
• UAF Appointment Letter Template for FN/FR Non-Represented Faculty
• Faculty Development and Orientation

 Job Request Forms - Working Drafts Documents - To Be Used as Drafts 

The job request working draft document is to be used  prior to submitting in DocuSign. The working draft will allow the initiator (PPA/Executive Officer) to work with the department head/chair or supervisor of the faculty position on the components of the job request forms. The final information is entered in the job request format in the DocuSign Powerform.

Please download the working draft document below:

• Academic Faculty Job Request Form Working Draft
• Research Faculty Job Request Form Working Draft
• Joint Appoint Faculty Job Request Form Working Draft
• CRCD Faculty Job Request Form Working Draft
• CTC Faculty Job Request Form Working Draft

Signature Roles for the JRF DocuSign Powerforms:

There are signature roles that the JRF initiator must be aware of when filling out the DocuSign Powerform.

There are default signature roles that have been automatically filled out in the JRF DocuSign, and these are: Faculty Services Manager (for all JRFs), CTC Dean (for the CTC JRFs), CRCD Acting Dean (for the CRCD JRFs), Vice Chancellor roles (VCRNE-only for the CTC and CRCD JRF, and VCR-only for the Research JRFs), and the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor (for all JRFs).

The signature roles that the initiator must fill out each time they submit a JRF DocuSign Powerform are: Initiator (usually the PPA or the Executive Officer), department chair/program head, academic dean, director (for research), and campus director (for CRCD JRFs), and executive officer (if different from the PPA). 

Required Memos to be attached with the JRFs

For direct hire JRFs, please attach the memo request with the provost's approval of the direct hire. The memo can be uploaded in the JRF DocuSign. 

For new faculty position JRFs, please attach the memo request with the provost's approval of the position. The memo can be uploaded in the JRF DocuSign. 

Job Request Forms DocuSign Powerform Links: 

• Academic Faculty Job Request Form DocuSign Powerform link 
• Research Faculty Job Request Form DocuSign Powerform link 
• CRCD Faculty Job Request Form DocuSign Poweform link 
• CTC Faculty Job Request Form DocuSign Powerform link 
• Joint Appointment Faculty Job Request Form DocuSign Powerform link 

For Faculty Services related questions, please contact Jen Hoppough at jahoppough@alaska.edu or at 907-474-7096. 

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• Article: Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
• Project Implicit: Harvard's free tool to test implicit bias (eg. gender-career bias)
• Article: Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases
• Diversity and Equity Training Resources - For Search Committees - UA Group Accesses Only

• UNAC Faculty Contract and Workload Templates
• Non-represented Contract Letters
• MEMO: UNAC Faculty Time Off Guidelines

For Faculty Services related questions, please contact Jen Hoppough at jahoppough@alaska.edu or at 907-474-7096.

• AAR Dean-Director-Designee Response Template
• Faculty 180

For Faculty180 questions please feel free to contact Michelle Strickland at mastrickland@alaska.edu or Jen Hoppough at jahoppough@alaska.edu. 

 

• Promotion and/or Tenure Review

For Faculty Services related questions, please contact Jen Hoppough at jahoppough@alaska.edu or at 907-474-7096.

• Sabbatical Leave Webpage

The oversight and coordination of eXplorance Blue has been transitioned to the PAIR office, and the contact for assistance for Blue related inquiries is Nicole Lammers who can be reached at nllamers@alaska.edu.

• Log Into Blue
• Archived Evaluations- Public Records

• Incident Reporting

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Protection of Minors:

• Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management Reporting Procedures
• Policy
• Reporting

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• Title IX Reporting
• Unsafe Condition Report
• Student Misconduct
• Discrimination
• HR- Employee Relations
• Dispute and Grievance Resolution
• Faculty Grievance Policy- CBA
• MEMO: Immediate Reporting of Incidents

•  CBA
• Faculty Senate Blue Book

Professional Boundaries With Respect To Immediate Family Members UAF Policy

The University Representative must work in consultation with their Supervisor/Dean/Director to develop a written plan that removes them from any responsibility or influence over the student (IMF), including but not limited to reassigning grade assignments to other qualified individuals. Such a plan must be documented using the form below: 

IMMEDIATE FAMILY DISCLOSURE FORM VIA DOCUSIGN POWERFORM 

UAF Policy 04.10.040