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STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT AND STATE CENTER FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 1533, CFT/AFT, AFL-CIO Co lle c tive Ba rg a ining Ag re e me nts July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2021

SCF T F UL L -T I ME CBA

Overview of Major Provisions and Significant Contract Changes SCF T F ull- T ime Colle c tive Bar gaining Agr e e me nt ■ Wa ive r o f Ba rg a ining ■ Ne w E mplo ye e Orie nta tio n ■ Sa fe ty ■ Ho urs, Wo rklo a d , Cla ss Size ■ F a c ulty E va lua tio ns ■ T ra nsfe r a nd Re a ssig nme nt ■ L e a ve s with Pa y ■ Co mpe nsa tio n ■ F a c ulty E a rly Re tire me nt Pro g ra m (F E RP)

WAIVER OF BARGAINING Article V

S ection 2 Beginning Negotiations ■ This contract shall not be subj ect to reopening on any item for the duration of the Agreement or unless mutually agreed to in writing by both parties ■ This contract will run through June 30, 2021 ■ Initial proposals for a successor contract shall not be presented earlier than July 1, 2020

NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION Article IX

S ection 3 New Employee Orientation ■ The Federation shall be notified at least 10 days in advance of any District or College new employee orientations meetings ■ The Federation shall be entitled to 5 to 10 minutes on the orientation agenda ■ The Federation shall be entitled to one 30 minute period immediately before or after the orientation meeting to meet with new hires ■ Human Resources shall conduct the new employee orientations for full-time faculty

S AFETY Article XI - B

S ection 3 Reporting Violations ■ Unit members are required to report safety concerns to one of the following – S upervisor – Dist rict wide Facilit ies and S af et y Commit t ee (DWFS C) – Campus Commit t ee – The Direct or of Environment al Healt h & S af et y

HOURS , WORKLOAD, CLAS S S IZE Article XII

S ection 1 Work Week ■ All faculty work 40 hours per week – 5 hours per week on average shall be dedicat ed t o ext racurricular involvement in dist rict governance and service t o t he campus and dist rict (not communit y) – Non-inst ruct ional f acult y have 35 hours of assigned t ime ■ Instructional faculty work 5 days per week ■ Full-time instructors shall be assigned 14-16 LHE per week – May be ext ended t o 12-18 by mut ual agreement ■ Assignments may not exceed 9 hours per day ■ Overload limited to 40% (6 LHE) per semester

S ection 1 Office Hours ■ All instructional faculty are required to hold 5 office hours per week – Unless t his causes member t o exceed 22 hours per week ■ Office hours are in 50 minute increments – S ee Table XII.1 f or Of f ice Hour Chart ■ S hall be scheduled any time 2 hours before or after unit member’s scheduled classes for the day – Not bef ore 7am or aft er 9pm

Office Hours (Cont.) ■ May have one virtual office hour per week – online) classes will have one Those wit h online/ hybrid (more t han 50% virt ual office hour – Must be t hrough int eract ive medium; not by phone ■ Office hours will be prorated for those with released time or split instructional/ non-instructional assignments – Example = 6 LHE/ 15 LHE= 40% of an inst ruct ional load – 40% x 5 of f ice hours = an adj ust ed of fice hour requirement of 2

S ection 2 Professional Obligation ■ Each faculty member acknowledges that their primary employment obligation is to the District/ College and that any part-time employment that a faculty member has outside of the District/ College will not interfere or take precedence over an assignment made by the District/ College – This includes depart ment meet ings, commit t ee obligat ions, et c.

S ection 5 Large Group Instruction (LGI) ■ All sections will be assigned by management with consideration and collaboration with the full-time unit member ■ Instances in which a unit member chooses to enroll students that results in LGI, the unit member must get prior approval from his/ her Dean in order to be compensated

S ection 11 Department Chair Reassigned Time ■ Unit members who are serving as department chairs shall be given reassigned time per academic year according to the following table based on the FTEF of the previous academic year FTEF/year REASSIGNED TIME (in FTE) 0 < FTEF < 50 0.2 0.3 50 < FTEF < 75 75 < FTEF < 100 0.4 100 < FTEF < 125 0.5 0.6 FTEF > 125 ■ The District reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove a unit member as department chair at any time

S ection 11 Department Chair Duties ■ Detailed Department Chair duties are now included in the CBA. Please refer to pages 28 & 29 for details ■ Annual Review – The Dean will meet wit h t he depart ment chair at least once each academic year t o review t he perf ormance of t he depart ment chair. This review will not be part of t he unit member’s evaluat ion nor will it be included in t he unit member’s personnel f ile

S ection 13 Travel Off Campus/ Mileage ■ Total round trip mileage – Round trip mileage from unit member’s home to primary campus – Tot al round t rip is def ined as t he t ot al mileage f rom t he unit member’s home t o t he f irst campus, f rom t he f irst campus t o t he second campus, and f rom t he second campus t o t he unit member’s home NOTE: Primary campus is defined as the campus where the maj ority of the load is scheduled, or in the case of non-maj ority, the campus where the unit member was hired

F ACULTY EVALUATIONS Article XIII

S ection 2 Evaluation Process ■ Contract/ Tenure review committee shall consist of 3 members including 2 tenured department members and the immediate supervisor ( or his/her designee excluded from the bargaining unit . There will not be a designee for the first semester except in an emergency) – All tenure review evaluations shall occur in Fall of each year , except f or t he abbreviat ed evaluat ion, f or t he f irst semest er, when hired in S pring ■ Regular/ Tenured evaluation committee shall consist of a peer reviewer and the immediate supervisor, or his/ her designee excluded from the bargaining unit – The peer reviewer shall be a tenured faculty member

S ection 2 Evaluation Process (cont .) ■ Committee members shall administer a standard District evaluation questionnaire to students in at least 1 of each of the unit member’s preparations ■ For Distance Education, the student questionnaire shall be made available to students for a minimum of 5 days – S t andard Dist rict evaluat ion quest ionnaires will be used f or ALL inst ruct ional and non-inst ruct ional assignment s, except College Nurses

S ection 3 Evaluation Criteria ■ The following Duties and Responsibilities have been added to the evaluation criteria – Part icipat ion in curriculum, program review and annual updat es, college and/ or dist rict commit t ees and ot her shared governance act ivit ies – Assessing st udent learning out comes as a f unct ion of t he depart ment al program review process – For Records evaluat ion, counseling processes and forms have been added. ■ All relevant input outside the evaluation process must have been previously addressed with the unit member ■ For Coaches, the immediate supervisor will also consider relevant input from the Athletic Director

S ection 3 Evaluation Criteria (cont .) ■ New evaluation criteria have been added for all faculty on special assignment – Coaches – Coordinat ors – Counselors – Librarians – Nurses ■ All timelines have been adj usted by at least a week. Please review carefully – NOTE: The t imeline f or t hird cont ract evaluat ions t akes place during the Fall semester

S ection 4 Evaluation Timeline ■ Tenure-track faculty hired in the S pring will receive an abbreviated evaluation process for that “ zero semester” which does not count toward his/ her first contract year for the purposes of tenure review – S t udent quest ionnaires for all classes – One classroom visit at ion by immediat e supervisor and one peer reviewer – Review of t he f acult y member’s class records – Immediat e supervisor will complet e a summary evaluat ion report NOTE: Commit t ee compensat ion has changed f rom an available 10 hours t o 5 hours

S ection 6 Evaluation of Temporary Faculty ■ Full-time temporary faculty (which include one-semester and one-year assignments) will be evaluated as follows (S ection 6) – Perf ormance during t heir f irst semest er of t eaching or service ■ Categorically Funded Faculty will be evaluated as follows (S ection 6) – Perf ormance during t heir f irst semest er of t eaching or service – Perf ormance during t heir second and/ or t hird semest ers of t eaching or service – Perf ormance over every 6 semest ers of t eaching or service t hereaf t er ■ Each first year contract faculty, including zero semester (S pring) hires, will have a faculty advisor for the first semester – Advisor will serve as a guide and a role model. Each advisor shall receive up t o 5 hours at t he t op of S chedule B2 Lab rat e. Please review t his sect ion caref ully (S ect ion 2)

TRANS FER AND REAS S IGNMENT Article XVI