Specific Workload Conditions/Expectations Sample Clauses

Specific Workload Conditions/Expectations. 1. Full-time Instructional Employees A contractual work day for full-time instructional academic employees shall be defined as the individual workload assignments made in accordance with the criteria set forth above. When classes are not scheduled during the 172 days required by the contract, instructional academic employees shall be present on campus for the number of hours necessary to meet professional responsibilities unless prior timely written request to be absent receives written approval by the unit administrator. In addition, instructional academic employees are expected to attend a reasonable number of scheduled activities, perform departmental duties assigned by the unit administrator, conduct academic advisory functions, and observe regular office hours. Exception: This does not apply to “additional undesignated full-time faculty days.” Full-time instructional academic employees shall be required to meet the following workload standards:

Specific Workload Conditions/Expectations. 1. Workload assignment. a. The order of assignment of workload shall be: 1) First, the College will assign loads to meet its obligation to provide full-time workload to Full-Time faculty members. 2) Second, the College will assign one (1) moonlight section load to each Full-Time Faculty member who requests a moonlight assignment. 3) Third, the College may reserve some workload (see Section D.1.b., below) to be assigned to current or prospective Associate Faculty members (including Priority Associate Faculty members). 4) Fourth, the College will assign loads to meet its minimum obligations to Priority Associate faculty members (i.e., a minimum 50% FTE-F load per Priority Associate, if such load is available). i) If not enough load is available, prior to staffing decisions, Unit Administrator will clearly communicate strategy and rationale for distribution of workload to appropriate FPCs. 5) Fifth, the College will assign additional load to fulfill Priority Associate requests for more than 50% FTE-F load, if such additional load is available. If not enough load is available to fulfill all such requests, the College will assign load to fulfill as many Priority Associate faculty members’ requests as possible. 6) Sixth, the College will assign loads to (non-Priority) Associate Faculty members. 7) Seventh, the College will assign loads to Full-Time Faculty members who have requested more than one moonlight assignment. b. Load reserved for diversification of the Faculty i. To allow for expansion and diversification of the faculty hiring pool and in order to forward the Strategic Goals of the College, a defined number of sections shall be reserved for assignment within the division. The use of these reserved loads will demonstrably advance the College’s Strategic Goals. ii. Amount of reserved sections per quarter: 1. The number of reserved sections will be determined as 10% of the total number of sections offered per Division based on the quarterly average from the previous academic year. 2. Reserve sections are not assigned to non-instructional faculty. iii. Timeframe for use of reserved sections: 1. Each quarter, when the College requests Full-Time Faculty and Priority Associate faculty submit their schedule preferences and availability, the unit administrator shall inform the Division Planning Council of the number of reserved sections. 2. Any reserved sections not assigned to a current or prospective Associate Faculty member by ten (10) business days before th...