Collective agreement: Senior Faculty, June 28, 2011 (PDF)
Special collective agreement: October 25, 2018 (PDF)
Special collective agreement: March 6, 2018 (PDF)
Faculty Roles
Teaching Load
Science Liaison Fund (KAKAM)
Research Hours
New Academic Courses
Outside Employment
Salary
Benefit Terms
Commuting Allowance
Vacation
Sick Leave
Maternity Leave
Additional Terms of Employment
Faculty Association
Faculty Roles
Within the framework of their official appointment and beyond the allocated teaching hours, faculty members must carry out a wide variety of roles, such as: advising, instructing and supporting students, guiding and facilitating their academic progress, preparing exam questionnaires, be present during exams, submissions and reviews, evaluating exams and deliberating appeals, correcting students’ written work, reviewing theses assigned by the institution, issuing grades on time, participating in all committee/group meetings of which they are a member by appointment or choice, and performing all tasks assigned by the institution’s management.
- Attendance: Full-time employees have a five-day work week. Full-time positions entail teaching and other campus roles at least three days a week.
- Advising final projects: Advising a final project will be counted as teaching hours, equivalent to 0.5 teaching units per student per weekly academic hour.
Teaching Load
- According to the Council for Higher Education guidelines and the collective agreement for senior faculty dated June 28, 2011, a senior faculty member in the regular track at the lecturer/senior lecturer level must teach 12 hours a week if full-time and a proportional quantity if part-time.
- A senior faculty member in the teaching track at the teacher/senior teacher level must teach 14 hours per week if full-time and a proportional quantity if part-time.
- A faculty member at the associate professor/adjunct member/full professor level must teach 10 hours per week for a full-time position.
Science Liaison Fund (KAKAM) — travel for academic training
The Science Liaison Fund (KAKAM) is designed to enable senior faculty to expand their professional horizons and advance in teaching, research, development and teaching quality. KAKAM is available to senior faculty only.
- Individual Science Liaison Fund: A senior faculty member eligible for an individual KAKAM application may submit an application to the continuing education committee regarding travel for professional training using the attached form.
- Group Science Liaison Fund (non-individual and non-cumulative KAKAM): A faculty member belonging to a group KAKAM program may submit an application to the continuing education committee regarding travel for professional training using the attached form.
Below are instructions on submitting applications for continuing education, in accordance with each faculty member’s eligibility:
- The forms must be submitted with proper qualifications for continuing education: faculty with eligibility for an individual or group KAKAM.
- Be sure to submit the request as soon as possible and at least two weeks before the travel date to avoid delays in issuing approvals.
- When submitting the form, please check that all details are complete and that all the following information is provided:
>> Updated and accurate travel dates, matching the flight dates booked. If the dates have changed, contact Ms. Laura Tsukerman (Pernick Building, Room 115) with the correct dates to confirm the trip.
>>Exact travel destination.
>>Purpose of the trip and daily itinerary.
>>Relevant documents and references attached.
>>Description of requested amounts in each section.
>>Return date from most recent Shenkar-funded travel (from any budget source).
>>Arrangements to prevent disruption of campus duties, including names of replacement lecturers.
>>Indication if a family member is joining the trip.
>>Original signature of person submitting the form + submission date.
>>Head of department/direct supervisor signature.
- After the form has been completed and signed, it must be sent to Ms. Laura Tsukerman (Pernick Building, Room 115) so that the relevant academic and administrative authorities may review it.
- No later than two weeks following the travel return date, a detailed academic report describing the training activities must be submitted to Ms. Laura Tsukerman (Pernick Building, Room 115). Pursuant to income tax requirements, the travel report should include itemization on a daily and even hourly level, where possible.
- For accounting purposes, bring original invoices and/or receipts for travel expenses abroad in your name only.
- Make all payments with your credit card only and not one belonging to a spouse/family member/third party.
- The accounting calculations will be possibly only upon presentation of a boarding pass in the passenger’s name.
Research and Teaching Development Hours
Shenkar places great importance on developing research, teaching and creativity in the faculties of Engineering and Design and Art and invests extensive resources for this purpose. The senior faculty collective agreement recognizes research and strengthening lecturers’ teaching quality as part of the obligatory teaching load.
- Every year, a call for recognizing research hours/ teaching quality improvement will be announced and all senior faculty members may submit their request to the committee. Form for recognizing research hours / teaching quality advancement.
- Faculty members that the academic committee recognizes for research hours/ teaching quality advancement will receive a reduced teaching load in the following academic year.
- The committee will determine the number of hours of research/teaching quality advancement, up to four hours weekly each year, provided that the teaching load is not less than eight weekly teaching hours for a full-time position, per the Council for Higher Education guidelines.
- A faculty member recognized for research hours/teaching quality advancement will be required to submit interim and summary reports on research activities or involvement in teaching development.
- For research hour regulations, click here!
- For a given research project, one may not receive both a teaching hours reduction benefit and a monetary research grant.
New Academic Courses
The senior faculty collective agreement allows a faculty member a reduction in their hourly teaching load if teaching a new academic course. From the faculty collective agreement dated June 28, 2011, Section 4C: “Two hours of teaching a new seminar or course, offered for the first time by an experienced lecturer, will be considered as three teaching hours by a faculty member. Teaching hour reductions within this provision may not exceed two weekly teaching hours”.
The criteria for new academic courses:
- A course defined as new by the head of the department and receiving academic approval from the dean of the faculty.
- A course that falls outside the faculty member’s specialization.
- A lecturer in at least their third year of teaching at Shenkar.
The reduction will not apply if the new course is part of a new study program, a new track or a new bachelor’s or master’s degree.
A faculty member who meets the above criteria should contact the head of the department to incorporate the teaching load reduction into planning for the following academic year (February/March).
Outside Employment
A senior faculty member is required to declare employment outside their position at Shenkar College. The statement and form must be filled out before the beginning of each academic year and signed, even if the faculty member only works at Shenkar College.
- According to the planning and budget committee guidelines, a faculty member’s employment can reach a maximum of 150% allotment in the higher education system, of which 100% is a faculty position and another 50% teaching units as an external lecturer.
- For a senior faculty member to teach outside the institution of their primary employment, they must obtain prior approval from the primary institution (to be renewed annually), at the other institution’s request. The primary institution’s approval may also be issued at the faculty member’s request rather than that of the other institution, provided that the approval includes the faculty member’s intended teaching program and number of hours.
- The head of the department and the head of the academic secretariat must issue written approval of the outside employment.
Salary
Faculty member salaries are in accordance with the salary tables for senior faculty, which are approved and published by the planning and budget committee.
Benefit Terms
- A faculty member will be entitled to select pension insurance or executive insurance.
- Continuing education fund: The employer’s contributions amount to 7.5% of the faculty member’s salary. The employee’s contributions amount to 2.5%, deducted from their salary. Contributions will be based on the salary table.
- Convalescence: A faculty member is entitled to convalescence pay, as customary in civil service, according to occasional updates and in proportion to the position’s scope and accumulated seniority.
Commuting Allowance
A lecturer is entitled to reimbursement of commuting expenses, according to instructions from the Ministry of Finance’s Accountant General and the public transportation “Equal Commute Reform” from August 1, 2022.
Vacation
- Faculty members are entitled to seven weeks of vacation during summer break.
- Actual vacation cannot be accumulated.
- Days off during the semester require the head of the department’s approval and the faculty division should be notified.
Sick Leave
- A faculty member is entitled to 30 sick days per year.
- Sick days can be accumulated (according to civil service guidelines) but are not redeemable during the employment period.
- Faculty members must report used/unused sick days as follows:
>>Using up to three consecutive sick days: The faculty division should be notified, and a doctor’s note is not required.
>>Using more than three consecutive sick days: The faculty division should be notified ,and a doctor’s note attached.
>>A faculty member should report attendance and absences every month. For each month that an attendance report is not submitted, 2.5 sick days will be deducted.
Maternity Leave
- By the time a faculty member is five months pregnant, she must report this to the department and academic secretariat.
- The woman giving birth is entitled to maternity leave according to accruement of a qualifying period. The National Insurance Institute will transfer the maternity allowance.
- Eligibility for maternity leave benefits is according to the National Insurance Institute guidelines listed online.
- As of May 1, 1998, a father is eligible to exchange part of his partner’s maternity leave for paternity leave and receive benefits under the law.
- Maternity leave is also offered in other circumstances as specified on the National Insurance Institute site.
Additional terms of employment
- Holiday gifts: Senior faculty members will receive a holiday gift twice a year.
- Shenkar tuition fees: Senior faculty members are entitled to a refund of registration and tuition fees if enrolling in an academic degree at Shenkar, according to the scope of their position. Spouses and children are eligible for this benefit if the employee has worked at least 24 months at Shenkar; on the pay slip, a tax equivalent will be collected for the enrollment cost and spread over the study period.
- Loans: Faculty members are eligible for a loan after at least 24 months working at Shenkar. To apply, complete the loan application form and send it to the Salary Division: katyag@shenkar.ac.il
A loan for a full-time employee may be up to NIS 15,000. A part-time employee can receive a loan according to the scope of their job.
The number of loan repayments is up to 24 months.
An employee will be eligible for a new loan after six months following the final repayment of the previous loan.
The loan is subject to the committee’s approval.
Criteria for receiving a loan: housing and renovation // car purchase // medical care // family events
Personal Information
Any changes to personal details must be reported to the primary department and the faculty division, such as a change in residence, email address, phone number, etc.
Faculty Association
- The Faculty Association represents all senior faculty at Shenkar College.
To contact the Association: segel.shenkar@gmail.com//segel.shenkar@gmail.com
