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Article XII - Working Conditions
     
Article I - Agreement
Article II - Recognition
Article III - Definitions
Article IV - Negotiation Procedures
Article V - Non-Discrimination
Article VI - Association Rights
Article VII - Academic Freedom
Article VIII - Professional Dues or Fee & Payroll Deductions
Article IX - Grievance Procedure
Article X - Leaves
Article XI - Employee Rights
Article XII - Working Conditions
Article XIII - Personnel Files
Article XIV - College Calendar
Article XV - Holidays
Article XVI - Appointment of Faculty
Article XVII - Unit Vacancies
Article XVIII - Reassignments
Article XIX - Evaluation of Faculty
Article XX - Due Process
Article XXI - Reduction in Force
Article XXII - Workload
Article XXIII - Salary
Article XXIV - Reduced Workload
Article XXV - Other Duty and Compensation
Article XXVI - Additional Duty Assignment
Article XXVII - Employee Benefits
Article XXVIII - Travel
Article XXIX - Department Chairperson
Article XXX - Retiree Benefits
Article XXXI - Miscellaneous
Article XXXII - Public Charges
Article XXXIII - Unit Stability
Article XXXIV - Statutory Changes
Article XXXV - Savings Clause
Article XXXVI - District Rights
Article XXXVII - No Strike, No Lockout
Article XXXVIII - Completion of Meet and Negotiation
Article XXXIX - Faculty Service Areas
Appendix A - Faculty Salary Schedules
Appendix B - Co-Curricular Activities
Appendix C - Advising, Counselor/Librarian Hours & Stipends
Appendix D - Side Letter - Access to Personnel File
Appendix E - Criteria for Academic Reduction in Force
Appendix F - Family Care Leave
Appendix G - Lecture Equivalancy Hours - Athletics
Appendix H - Retiree Fringe Benefit
Appendix I - Approved Academic Calendar
Exhibit 1 - Non-Contractual Memorandums of Understanding
12.1 The following provisions are intended to indicate the current policies utilized in the areas specified. They are not intended to change current policy nor will the District be required to expend District monies or resources in order to implement the provisions of the Article, except those expenditures that are currently being made.
 
12.2 Upon appointment, and during every year of employment thereafter, each faculty member shall be provided with an individual office, when possible. Said office shall be properly maintained, lighted, ventilated, and heated or cooled within existing capabilities or provided in any new construction, and shall be equipped at least with the following, all of which shall be maintained in working order.
 
  12.2.1 A lockable office door
 
  12.2.2 One (1) desk with one (1) lockable drawer
 
  12.2.3 One (1) appropriate desk chair
 
  12.2.4 One (1) suitable chair for visitors
 
  12.2.5 One (1) lockable four (4) drawer file cabinet
 
  12.2.6 Adequate shelving for books and/or table space
 
  12.2.7 One (1) individual office telephone
 
  12.2.8 Access to a computer and a printer
 
  12.2.9 One (1) campus mailbox
 
12.3 Each faculty member shall be provided with keys to his/her office building and individual office and shall have limited access to each. All faculty members shall be required to pay for lost key replacement during his/her term of employment. Upon leaving employment, faculty members will be required to turn in all College keys which have been checked out to them. Employees who do not return their keys to the District, or who lose their keys, will have the following amounts deducted from their paychecks:
 
    Category I    (Master Bldg. Key)  $10.00 per key
 
    Category II   (Office/Room Key)  $5.00 per key
 
    Category III  (Cabinet Key)          $5.00 per key
 
12.4 The faculty member actively engaged in library research may request, in a timely manner and shall be provided as space allows, the use of an individual library carrel for his/her individual exclusive usage on a daily basis.
 
12.5 On an annual basis, an Association representative as appointed by the Association President, will consult with the Vice President of Administrative Services as to the need for clerical/typing support for the faculty. As a result of such consultation, a plan shall be developed to answer the clerical needs of faculty.
 
12.6 Specially designated and appropriately identified parking spaces shall be provided for all handicapped or disabled Unit Members.
 
12.7 Parking facilities for all Unit Members shall be reasonably lighted, maintained and patrolled.
 
12.8 All retired faculty members and their immediate families, upon request, may be provided tickets to College athletic events and other activities to which student activity tickets normally apply.
 
12.9 Any faculty and/or staff meeting called by the College administration shall be scheduled during the regular duty day at a time when a minimum number of classes are in session. The following conditions will apply:
 
  12.9.1 Each affected faculty member shall be provided sufficient notice of the meeting, and an appropriate agenda shall be distributed at least two (2) days in advance of the scheduled meeting.
 
  12.9.2 In the event of an emergency meeting, or one (1) involving required attendance, all affected faculty members shall be relieved of their professional responsibilities for the duration of the meeting.
 
12.10 Every effort will be made to provide no less than twelve (12) consecutive hours elapsed time between the end of the last assigned class on one (1) day, and the beginning of the first assigned class on the following day.
 
  12.10.1 Exception to the elapsed time provisions above may be permitted in cases where a faculty member specifically requests or agrees in writing to a different elapsed time period.
 
12.11 Unit Members, at their option and with the consent of the Vice President of Instructional Services, may be assigned a teaching load which spans more than twelve (12) hours in a day.
 
12.12 If a final schedule cannot be mutually agreed upon, then the Administration will complete the final schedule.
 
  12.12.1 Course cancellations shall not reduce the District's contractual obligation to the faculty member.
 
  12.12.2 All classes shall be assigned to rooms and laboratories which can properly accommodate them, and which are properly heated and/or cooled, lighted, ventilated (not necessarily by a window), equipped and maintained within the existing capabilities.
 
  12.12.3 Classes for a given course in any given academic period shall be assigned in the same room for all sessions barring emergency circumstances, consistent with class needs.
 
12.13 Faculty members' participation in, or attendance at, all College sponsored functions and activities shall be voluntary with the exception of District mandated meetings.
 
12.14 If specific academic attire (caps and gowns) is required, it shall be furnished by the College at no cost to the faculty members.
 
12.15 Faculty members shall not be assigned more than three (3) consecutive lecture hours in a given work day. Exceptions to such consecutive assignments may be permitted in cases where a faculty member specifically requests or agrees in writing to a different form of consecutive assignments than indicated by the program. This consecutive hour provision will be suspended if the nature of the program necessitates such scheduling.
 
 

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This page was last updated April 5, 2008.