ARTICLE 32

DEFINITIONS

As used in this Agreement, the term:

-- "academic year" means a period consisting of a fall and spring semester of approximately 39 contiguous weeks, or approximately 42 weeks for the SUS Developmental Research Schools.

-- "bargaining unit" means those employees, collectively, represented for collective bargaining purposes by the UFF pursuant to the certification of the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission dated November 21, 1984, wherein the Commission ordered that Certification number 218, previously issued to the UFF, remain in effect, and Order number 84-E-112, dated June 14, 1984, wherein the Commission adopted the bargaining unit agreed to by the Board of Regents and the UFF, as amended.

-- "Board" or "Board of Regents" means the body established by Florida Statutes, Chapter 240, acting through the Chancellor and its staff.

-- "break in service" means those absences following which the employee is treated as a new employee for purposes of computing seniority and years of service.

-- "college/unit" means a college or a comparable administrative unit generally equivalent in size and character to a college.

-- "continuous service" means employment uninterrupted by a break in service. For academic year employees (9 or 10 month employees), one year of continuous service is equivalent to the nine (9) or ten (10) month employment period.

-- "days" means calendar days.

--  "department/unit" means a department or a comparable administrative unit generally equivalent in size and character to a department.

-- "employee" means a member of the bargaining unit.

-- "equitable" means fair and reasonable under the circumstances.

-- "months" means calendar months.

-- number: The singular includes the plural.

-- "principal place of employment" means the campus location or other university site specified on the employee's standard employment contract.

-- "semester" means one of the two approximately 19.5 week periods (approximately 21 week period for SUS Developmental Research Schools) which together constitute the academic year.

-- "supervisor" means an individual identified by the President or representative as having immediate administrative authority over bargaining unit employees.

-- "SUS" or "State University System" means the system of institutions and agencies within the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents.

-- "UFF" means United Faculty of Florida.

-- "university" means one of the ten (10) institutions in the State University System acting through the President and its staff.

-- "year" means a period of twelve (12) consecutive months.