Retrenchment of Teaching Educators. In instances where financial exigencies may require the reduction of faculty, seniority in time of service at the College, and rank shall be the factors in determining who shall be retained within academic disciplines. Faculty who are non-tenured shall be released first. The College will give those educators thus affected written notice thereof, by registered mail, one year prior to the date of retrenchment. Retrenched educators shall be placed on a recall list for two years and reinstated in inverse order of retrenchment. For a period of two years following retrenchment, full-time faculty shall not be replaced with temporary full-time faculty or with part-time faculty whose aggregate work load is equivalent to a full- time teaching load. Once there is a full-time teaching load for which the retrenched faculty member is qualified, retrenched faculty shall be recalled. The College will support opportunities for retraining any educator facing retrenchment through the use of existing mechanisms such as sabbatical leaves, tuition reimbursement, Improvement of Instruction Grants, and other similar professional staff development programs.
