College Service Hours. Faculty members shall devote an average of 5 hours per week (160 hours per academic year) to college service. This includes: • Extracurricular service such as an unpaid club sponsor or unpaid professional assistance to faculty and staff (such as conducting workshops or computer assistance); • Unpaid responsibilities outside student office hours incidental to the orientation and registration of students; • Curriculum and program development, including advisory committee service; • Proposal and grant writing; • Industry and community contacts that directly benefit the educational program at Long Beach City College; and • Actual participation in the Academic Senate, the Curriculum Committee, the LBCCFA Representative Council and/or Executive Board, the LBCCFA negotiating team, the Faculty/Staff Association, faculty evaluation activities, institutional committees (both standing and ad hoc), departmental meetings, Self- Study Committees, hiring committees, and other committee work.
College Service Hours non-teaching duties such as committee/taskforce/ review board work, enrollment/recruitment activities, mentoring, unpaid grant work, and other special projects not receiving any other form of compensation (additional appointments, additional duty compensation, innovation funding, etc.) that may be used to comprise a faculty member’s load.
College Service Hours. For each academic year, faculty intending to utilize College Service Hours for load must submit a request to their division chair before 1:00 pm on cancellation day for fall term. The request must include the duties and relevant ECH requested. Division chairs will submit a list of faculty requests for their respective divisions by the end of the first Friday of the fall term. Final approval by the Vice President for Academic Services must be completed by 5:00 pm on the 10th day for fall term. The development of the official College Service Guidelines is the responsibility of the Vice President for Academic Services and the Faculty Association president. Faculty options for College Service Hours credit will be made available to the faculty by July 15 of each academic year through the publishing of the College Service Guidelines.
