Section 4: Personnel Practices

Section 4: Personnel Practices

Page Contents:

1. Collective Bargaining Agreement
2. Faculty Evaluation
3. Payroll
4. Pre-approval and Approval Criteria for Salary Progression
5. Adjunct Faculty

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Collective Bargaining Agreement

The CBA identifies the participating parties and identifies your rights and responsibilities as a faculty member. If you have any questions about the CBA, talk with any CCA Representative.

Faculty Evaluation

Quality faculty are essential to the academic excellence of an institution. Therefore, it is a mutual expectation of faculty and administration that regular and on-going feedback be provided to faculty regarding job performance. To ensure that quality teaching and support services remain the core ingredients in undergraduate education, the faculty evaluation process:

1. Focuses on professional growth, recognition, and improvement by identifying and providing instructional resources for support of individual faculty goals and growth.
2. Promotes faculty service (e.g. community, committee, professional activities).
3. Facilitates the accomplishment of individual faculty objectives linked to departmental, program, and institutional missions and goals.
4. Assesses the performance of the full scope of all assigned duties according to the job assignment and relevant professional standards.
5. Provides the basis for retention and tenure decisions.

Faculty evaluations are covered in Article 6 (full-time) and 7 (part-time) of the CBA. For details, please see the current CBA, and if you have questions about the process, contact any CCA representative.

Payroll

Full-time faculty members are compensated according to the assigned number of contract days.

Your salary, class, step placement, and contracted number of days are listed on your annual Notice of Assignment. This notice is mailed to your home address before the fall semester starts. You will need to sign the notice, keep a copy, and return a signed copy to Human Resources at the District. Employment contracts for contract employees must be returned forty-five (45) days after the date of issue (Education Code Section 87410). Contracts for regular employees must be returned forty-five (45) days after they are issued (Education Code Section 87411). Please refer to the CBA Article 11 for salary schedules. Faculty serving on a ten-month (10-month) College calendar may opt to have their annual salary paid in either ten (10) or twelve (12) monthly installments. You will receive your first payment on the last working day in August and your last payment on the last working day in each consecutive month in the option.

Pre-approval and Approval Criteria for Salary Progression

Salary advancement can be accomplished in several ways. Please refer to the CBA Article 11.F for various activities/courses and approval criteria for salary advancement. Faculty shall discuss courses/activities with the appropriate educational administrator and must submit a pre-approval for coursework for salary progression on the District form entitled “Request for Pre-approval of Credit for Salary Advancement” found on the District’s portal under “Employee Forms” tab. Submitted forms are reviewed by the appropriate educational administrator and college president or designee for approval. Completed coursework, seminars, and workshops for salary progression should be submitted on the District form titled “Request for Approval of Credit for Salary Advancement” found on the District’s portal under “Employee Forms” tab accompanied by the appropriate documentation.

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct faculty shall be compensated in accordance with the CBA, Article 11.

Adjunct faculty are paid on the 15th of the month beginning in September for the Fall term and in February for the Spring term. Adjunct faculty can teach to a maximum of 67% of a full-time faculty load.