Common use of Assignment and Scheduling Clause in Contracts

Assignment and Scheduling. It is in the best interest of the District and the intent of both parties to hire experienced, noncredit faculty to work with a cohort of noncredit students either at the College and/or particular off-campus site. 1. When there is a need for noncredit faculty service beyond that provided by regular, contract, and /or other District full-time faculty, the following are the factors to be considered in developing the work assignment of noncredit unit members for all semesters and sessions. • Minimum qualifications and/or appropriate certification (Title V Section 53412) • Demonstrated competency, expertise and/or training in the discipline, sub-field of the discipline, or particular assignment • Previous service/experience with the College and/or off-campus site • Previous overall rating of 4 or 5 in a formal evaluation as per Appendix B or E • Investigated Complaints • Availability for the assignment • Request by the noncredit unit member to continue with the same cohort at the same site as the previous semester • Unit members who have been or are currently being investigated for a legitimate violation of the District’s written policies and procedures, that has been reviewed by Human Resources, may not receive an assignment. 2. The ▇▇▇▇ of Continuing Education or other appropriate administrator (or his/her designee) shall assign noncredit courses to noncredit faculty, based on criteria outlined in Article 6 sections 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5. 3. Noncredit adjunct faculty may be employed in a noncredit assignment for a maximum of two hundred ninety-three (293) instructional hours per semester (or 67% of eight hundred seventy-five [875] instructional hours per school year or four hundred thirty- seven [437] instructional hours per semester as defined by Education Code 22138.5 for full-time noncredit faculty). If a noncredit adjunct faculty member is also employed in a credit adjunct assignment, the unit member can still only teach 67% of a full-time load. For example, consider an ESL unit member who would like to teach a 67% load that consists of a noncredit ESL assignment as well as an ESL-060 credit assignment: • ESL-060 credit load: 54.00 semester hours = 3.00 units (20% load or 3 units/15 units) • Noncredit load: 47% remaining noncredit load = 205 noncredit semester hours (47% of 437 hours) 4. The District will staff sections no later than the summer session before the start of the fall semester, the fall semester before the start of the winter intersession, the winter session before the start of the spring semester, and the spring semester before the start of the summer session. The District will notify AFT of reasons for exceptions to this timeline. Exceptions to the timeline below may include the following: • Uncertainty in funding that results in a reduction or expansion of department course offerings; • Change in course availability due to the change in the number of department full- time faculty or full-time faculty reassigned/release time; • Change in course offerings due to a change in curriculum, reorganization, or administrative priorities concerning enrollment; • Change in off-campus site priorities external to the college; and • Technical difficulties with software or data systems.