Common use of Section G Clause in Contracts

Section G. Parties shall mean the District and the Association. PERC shall mean the Washington State Public Employees Relations Commission. PDC shall mean the faculty Professional Development Committee. Probationary faculty appointment shall mean employment for a designated period of time during which the probationer is evaluated as a candidate to be awarded tenure. In the event an academic employee is employed full-time as a temporary academic employee and the next year with a probationary appointment as an academic employee, the consecutive college quarters in which the individual was so employed full-time may be credited towards tenure consideration. Program director See Appendix C. RCW shall mean Revised Code of Washington. RIF shall mean Reduction in Force. SBCTC shall mean the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Special faculty employment shall mean employment with the District in a faculty position when such employment results from federal monies or other gift, grant or contract funds which are designated as “special funds” by SBCTC. Such appointments may be either full-time or part-time. Such appointment is non-tenurable and may be terminated upon a reduction or elimination of funding or a reduction or elimination of the program. Faculty members transferred from a tenured appointment without a break in service to such an appointment may resume their previous appointment upon the loss of the special funding. Special appointment faculty who wish to become tenured employees must go through a screening process. Supplemental contract shall mean that contract issued to and signed by a faculty member to contract for professional services above and beyond his/her basic (teaching, counseling, etc.) appointment. Temporary faculty appointment shall mean employment for a definite period of time and for a full assignment. No one shall be employed in this category for more than six consecutive quarters (excluding summer) unless the position is funded by soft money. Faculty assigned to a temporary Tenured faculty appointment shall mean employment with the District, following completion of an appropriate probationary faculty appointment, in a faculty position for an indefinite period of time which may be revoked only for adequate cause and by due process. WAC shall mean Washington Administrative Code.