GLOSSARY OF TERMS

the procedure leading to an academic taking up a higher post.

a staff member employed in the position of: senior certified curator (starszy kustosz dyplomowany), senior certified documentalist (starszy dokumentalista dyplomowany), library assistant (asystent biblioteczny), assistant of scientific documentation and information (asystent dokumentacji i informacji naukowej), certified curator (kustosz dyplomowany), certified documentalist (dokumentalista dyplomowany), library adjunct (adiunkt biblioteczny), adjunct of scientific documentation and information (adiunkt dokumentacji i informacji naukowej).Under the Act of 3 July 2018 Introductory Provisions of the Act – Law on Higher Education and Science and the provisions of the Statute of the University of Warsaw, the employees employed in the above positions shall remain employed in those positions until 30 September 2020. As of 1st October 2020 they shall become non-academic staff employed respectively:

• senior certified curator – at the position of senior academic curator;
• a certified curator, certified library adjunct and a certified library assistant – at the position of academic curator.

the right to stand for and take office, mandate or function.

the right to vote.

according to § 56 section 1 of the Statute of the University of Warsaw, The persons holding managerial positions at the University are:

• the Vice-Rectors;
• heads of the organisational units of the University (faculties, college of studies, college of inter-area individual studies, doctoral school, university-wide organisational unit);
• the deputy Deans for student affairs and the directors of teaching in the case of organisational units of the University if such units organise and provide teaching and learning for students;
• the Chancellor – the head of the whole of the University’s administration;
• the bursar – the chancellor’s deputy and the University’s chief accountant.

hours carried out in excess of the mandatory annual teaching load, for which additional remuneration is due.

a form of establishing the employment relationship with academic staff for a fixed or indefinite period of time, used until 30 September 2018. (until the entry into force of the Act of 20 July 2018 Law on Higher Education and Science. Employees employed at the University of Warsaw on 1 of October 2018 on the basis of appointment remain employed in this form and for the period for which they were hired.

actions or behaviour concerning an employee or directed against an employee, consisting of persistent and long-term harassment or intimidation of an employee, causing an employee’s appraisal of his/her professional usefulness to be lowered, causing or intended to cause humiliation or ridicule of an employee, isolating him/her or eliminating him/her from his/her team of co-workers.

an employee working in the research/teaching, research and teaching staff group.

academics shall be subject to periodic review, in particular in respect of the performance of the duties as referred to in §115 of the Act and their compliance with regulations on copyright and associated rights, and on industrial property rights.

Academics shall be subject to a periodic review:

• carried out at least once every four years;
• or at the Rector’s request.

The criteria for periodic review of particular groups of employees and types of positions, as well as the procedure and body entrusted to carry out the periodic review, shall be determined by the Rector after obtaining the opinion of the Senate, trade unions, the student and doctoral candidates’ self-government.

• the collegial bodies of the University are: the University Council, Senate, academic discipline councils and the Academic Council of the Areas of Study,
• the Rector is a single-person authority of the University,
• the Electoral College is the University’s electoral authority.

the mandatory annual teaching load of an academic staff member employed as a research/teaching academic or academic teacher, determined proportionally to the working time (full-time position). The salary entitlement of academic staff shall depend on the position held and shall be as follows:

• employed in research/teaching academics group:
  • professor – 180 godzin dydaktycznych;
  • university professor – 210 didactic hours;
  • visiting professor – 210 didactic hours;
  • assistant professor – 210 didactic hours;
  • senior assistant – 210 didactic hours;
  • assistant – 210 didactic hours;
• employed in academic teachers group:
  • professor – 240 didactic hours
  • university professor – 270 didactic hours;
  • visiting lecturer – 270 didactic hours;
  • docent – 270 didactic hours;
  • assitant professor – 360 didactic hours;
  • senior assistant – 360 didactic hours;
  • assistant – 360 didactic hours;
  • lector – 540 didactic hours;
  • instructor – 540 didactic hours.

Collegial bodies at the University within the meaning of §56 section 2 item are:

• the university teaching and learning council;
• Faculty councils;
• teaching and learning councils;
• councils of other organisational units of the University.

according to Article 120 of the Act – PSWiN of 2018, the university indicated in the employment contract based on the academic staff member’s statement; the condition for indicating the university as the primary place of work is full-time employment at the university. An academic may have only one primary place of work at a time.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

is a higher education institution operating on the basis of the Act of 20 July 2018. – Law on Higher Education and Science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668 as amended).