Common use of Grade A Clause in Contracts

Grade A. Persons who hold less than a Master’s Degree (regardless of equivalency status). Grade B: Persons who hold a Master’s Degree and who have completed fewer than thirty (30) units of course work after the date that the Master’s Degree was awarded. Grade C: Persons who hold a Master’s Degree and who have completed at least thirty (30) units of course work after Grade D: Persons who possess two (2) Master’s Degrees or a Doctorate Degree. Part-time faculty who have taught previously for the District, but who have not done so within a year of the initial implementation date of the Part-time (Adjunct) Faculty Salary Schedule (7/1/96), will be placed on the schedule in the same way as those commencing initial employment with the District. Part-time faculty who have been employed by the District after 7/1/96, and who return to the District following a lapse in employment, will be placed onto the step of the Part-time (Adjunct) Faculty Salary Schedule to which they had been assigned prior to the lapse in employment.