1. In order to handle faculty requests for teaching assignments in the coming summer session equitably, the departmental Chair will draw up a list of all the faculty of the Department. This list will become the pecking order for satisfying individual teaching requests. The next year's list will be drawn up (or revised from the previous year's list) as soon as the summer session for a given year is completed. New full-time faculty who hold continuing contracts will be added to the bottom of the list that is in force at the time that they sign their contract for employment.

2. The first list will be drawn up on the basis of seniority in academic rank and length of service at Bowling Green State University . Each year, at the appropriate time, the list will be revised as follows: People with no summer teaching contracts for that summer will be put at the top of the list for next summer (in the same order as they were on the previous list). People with 3 credit hours teaching will then be listed. Then people with 4 credit hours, followed by those with 6 or more credit hours of teaching.

3. The Chair is further directed to provide summer teaching assignments for qualified graduate teaching assistants in courses at the 1xx and 2xx level, provided that every faculty member who requests summer teaching is assigned for at least 3 credit hours of teaching.

4. Although the list establishes a pecking order which serves as the chief guide in satisfying summer teaching requests, there are other limitations on requests. The Chair is directed to schedule summer teaching for all who request it on the basis of the principle that everyone who wishes should get at least 3 credit hours before anyone gets 6.

5. Persons who have announced their intention to retire shall be offered, where possible, two summer courses in each of their last three years prior to retirement. This is to be accomplished as follows: Retiring faculty are to be given first priority for second courses following the assignment of single courses to all faculty requesting summer courses and to graduate assistants as required elsewhere in the policy. The retiring faculty are also to have first priority for single course where there are not enough to allow all faculty who wish to teach to do so. This special allocation for the retiring faculty will be made three and only three times.

6. In the event that there are not sufficient courses available to provide all retiring faculty with two courses, those who taught fewer courses in the preceding summer will be given preference over those who taught more courses.

7. Further constraints on the satisfaction of summer teaching requests include: money available to the Department for summer contracts, enrollment in courses (actual and projected), and limitations placed on individual requests due to research grants and other contracts, University or College policy affecting summer sessions.