Common use of Professional Development Leaves Clause in Contracts

Professional Development Leaves. Eligibility 17.1 A faculty employee shall be eligible to apply for a Professional Development Leave of one, two, or three quarters under this article if he or she: 17.1.1 Is employed as a regular faculty employee in a non-management position; 17.1.2 Has rendered service to the District as a contract or regular faculty employee who is employed at least half time for at least 18 consecutive quarters preceding the academic year in which the leave is to be taken; 17.1.3 Notwithstanding Section 17.1.2, a regular faculty employee may apply any unused quarters of service earned in a former management position towards the eligibility requirements specified in Section 17.1.2 provided the three most recent quarters of service preceding the academic year in which the leave commences were earned as a regular faculty employee; and 17.1.4 Has not taken any other paid professional leave during the eighteen quarters preceding the academic year in which the leave is to be taken. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, if the leave is taken in separate years as provided in Section 17.2, the intervening quarters may be counted toward eligibility for subsequent leaves. For purposes of eligibility all quarters of service in active employment status between the first quarter of the year in which the leave is taken and the final quarter of the year in which the leave is completed (17.2) shall count toward eligibility for subsequent leaves (see Appendix P4). No absence from the service of the District under a leave of absence shall be deemed a break in the continuity of service required by this section. However, time spent on an unpaid leave of one quarter or more shall not count toward a period of service.

Professional Development Leaves. Eligibility 17.1 A faculty employee shall be eligible to apply for a Professional Development Leave of one, two, or three quarters under this article if he or she: 17.1.1 Is employed as a regular faculty employee in a non-management position; 17.1.2 Has rendered service to the District as a contract or regular faculty employee who is employed at least half time for at least 18 eighteen consecutive quarters preceding the academic year in which the leave is to be taken; 17.1.3 Notwithstanding Section 17.1.2, a regular faculty employee may apply any unused quarters of service earned in a former management position towards the eligibility requirements specified in Section 17.1.2 provided the three most recent quarters of service preceding the academic year in which the leave commences were earned as a regular faculty employee; and 17.1.4 Has not taken any other paid professional leave during the eighteen quarters preceding the academic year in which the leave is to be taken. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, if the leave is taken in separate years as provided in Section 17.2, the intervening quarters may be counted toward eligibility for subsequent leaves. For purposes of eligibility all quarters of service in active employment status between the first quarter of the year in which the leave is taken and the final quarter of the year in which the leave is completed (17.2) shall count toward eligibility for subsequent leaves (see Appendix P4). No absence from the service of the District under a leave of absence shall be deemed a break in the continuity of service required by this section. However, time spent on an unpaid leave of one quarter or more shall not count toward a period of service. 17.2 No Professional Development Leave granted under this article shall exceed three quarters. It is expected that a Professional Development Leave shall be taken in one academic year. However, the leave may be taken in separate years if: 17.2.1 The faculty member’s application demonstrates that the leave plan can be most effectively fulfilled in separate years; 17.2.2 The proposal to take the leave in separate years is approved by the Division Xxxx prior to the submission of the application to the Districts Professional Development Leave Committee as provided in Sections 17.5 through 17.8; 17.2.3 The proposal to take the leave in separate years shall not create a hardship for the division in the judgment of the Division Xxxx; and 17.2.4 The leave is commenced and completed within three years beginning Fall quarter following date of approval. Any leave granted for a period of three quarters shall release the applicant from a full annual load. “Full annual load” is the load for which the faculty employee would have been responsible had he or she not taken a Professional Development Leave. In disciplines where load is distributed unequally throughout the three academic quarters, the PDL leave shall not exceed the equivalent of a full annual load.