>
September
2007
Academic
Personnel
Faculty
Contract Changes
Briefing
By
Michael Suess
Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU)
Collective
Bargaining Agreement Between
The
Board of Trustees of The California State University
AND
The California Faculty Association
Effective
May
15, 2007 00June 30, 2010
Article
10 00Statutory Grievance Procedure
Campus administration and
the local CFA Chapter will send election procedures to departments
Elections shall be conducted
at the department level
Departments elect 25% of FTEF
to serve on Panel
Article
11 00Personnel Files
Administrators must sign the
log when access is not for the purpose of routine maintenance
Article
12 - Appointment
12.5
Assignment of additional
work during the term of a part-time conditional appointment may be up
to full-time, but shall continue to be conditional
However, if the faculty member
then gets a subsequent full-time appointment the following academic
year00that appointment is unconditional
Article
12 - Appointment
12.5
If class is canceled after
third class meeting faculty must either be paid for remaining portion
of assignment or provided an alternate work assignment
Partial or complete reduction
of time base of part-time faculty is not a layoff pursuant to Article
38
Article
12 - Appointment
12.12 (3 year appointment
of lecturers)
No special upfront evaluation
In cases of documented unsatisfactory
performance or serious conduct 00three-year appointment would not
be extended
If no work exists to support
a subsequent three-year appointment, lecturer goes on Article 38.48
departmental reemployment list
Article
12 - Appointment
12.12h Recall List
Faculty must notify the department
in writing no later than July 1 to be placed on list for AY
If no notification 00then
no obligation to re-hire
Faculty returned via 38.48
list will receive their previous rate of pay 00but benefit eligibility
will be determined by time base upon return
Article
12 - Appointment
12.12h
Faculty returned via 38.48
shall retain three-year appointment rights 00and thus will be issued
a new three-year appointment (and entitlement) based on the available
work at the time of recall
Faculty must respond within
five days of receipt of offer of reemployment
Offers must be made after
all current 3-year entitlements are met (see 12.29 hierarchy)
Article
12 - Appointment
12.16 - Temporary Range Elevation:
Campuses procedures need to
include deadlines for beginning and completion of review
Increases shall be effective
at the beginning of the first appointment in the AY following review
Previous limits on size of
range elevation pool (4 steps per 50 eligible lecturers) have been removed
Article
12 - Appointment
12.29 Assignment Order
of Work
Tenured and probationary faculty
(FERPS)
Administrators, or
Teaching Associates and other
student employees, or
Volunteer faculty
BEFORE making work available to lecturers
Article
12 - Appointment
12.29 Assignment of Work
Teaching Associate must be
an enrolled degree- seeking graduate student in the academic department
in which employed to perform instruction.
Volunteer faculty cannot be
receiving direct compensation from CSU for the assigned Unit 3 work
Article
12 - Appointment
12.29 Assignment
Order for Lecturers at beginning of Academic Year
(1)
3 year full-time lecturers
(2)
Multi-year (not 3 year) full-time lecturers
(3)
3 year part-time lecturers
(4)
Recall list of 3 year lecturers
(5)
Multi-year part-time lecturers (not 3 year entitlement)
(6)
Visiting Faculty
Careful consideration
required for lecturers employed 2006-2007, but appointment not mandated,
hired in any order
(7) If
12.3 lecturer is hired in Fall, then meet entitlement
Article
12 - Appointment
12.30 Assignment
Order for Lecturers at beginning of Academic Year continued
(8) New and
additional work priority
(i)
Three-year, part-time lecturers up to 1.0 time base
(ii)
All other part-time appointees pursuant to items 4 & 5 (previous
slide)
(iii)
Last, to any other qualified candidate
Article
12 - Appointment
12.29 Preference for Available
Temporary Work
Faculty must be qualified
and have performed satisfactorily to be eligible for new and/or additional
work assignments
Department makes the determination
on qualifications
Chair continues to make specific
course and assignment decisions
Article
12 - Appointment
12.29 - Visiting Faculty
After 3 year entitlements
multi-year appointments have been satisfied, CSU can hire systemwide
up to 125 (FTEF) Visiting Faculty from outside the campus
New class code
Hiring of Visiting Faculty
shall not displace or reduce time base of incumbent lecturers on the
assignment list
Article
12 - Appointment
12.30 Recruitment of tenure-track
faculty continues to take precedence over any appointment right and/or
entitlement for temporary faculty
Any work used to satisfy lecturer
entitlements may be used for the recruitment and appointment of new
tenure track faculty
Article
12 - Appointment
12.32 00Other Student Employment
GA and ISA classifications
shall not be used to circumvent the limitations on TA employment in
12.32
12.33 00Systemwide Committee
Committee shall be established
to monitor implementation of Teaching Associates, Graduate Assistants
and ISA
Binding mediation of disputes
after two years
Article
13 00Probation and Tenure
13.7 Extensions of Probationary Period
Upon request by faculty member,
the President shall 00top the clock00for one year for:
Pregnancy/birth or adoption
leaves of at least one year
Personal Leave of Absence
for one or more full years
When faculty are on approved
2-year professional leave of absence
Article
13 00Probation and Tenure
13.8 Other Extensions of Probationary
Clock
Clock may be extended
for one year for leaves of less than a year resulting from:
Pregnancy/birth or adoption
Personal or professional leave
without pay
Worker00 Compensation, Industrial-
or Non-Industrial Disability Leave, or paid sick leave
Article
14 00Promotion
14.8 Presidential Decision
Available funds criteria deleted
from consideration of faculty promotion decision
Ranking will be used to assist
dean and Provost determine salary increase for promotion above minimum
7.5%, when applicable.
Article
15 - Evaluation
15.3 Evaluation Criteria
Standards shall be made available
no later than 14 days after the first day of instruction in the academic
term (October 1st)
Criteria and procedures shall
be made available to evaluation committee prior to the start of process
Article
15 - Evaluation
15.5 Rebuttal
Faculty now have 10 days
(instead of 7) to request meeting and/or submission of rebuttal to evaluation
15.14 Classroom Visits
Faculty shall be given
5 day notice
Consultation must occur between
faculty member and faculty evaluator
Article
15 - Evaluation
15.19 00Systemwide Student
Evaluation Committee
Will study most effective
practices
Review instruments
Will consider how bias factors
affect evaluation
Partner with Statewide Academic
Senate on recommendations
Article
15 - Evaluation
15.2600Temporary Faculty
3 year appointees shall be
evaluated at least once during term of appointment
Can be reviewed more frequently
Article
16 00Non Discrimination
16.1 Non-Discrimination Policy
Ancestry and Vietnam Era Veterans
status added to list of prohibited basis
Article
17 00Temporary Suspension
17.6 Summary Report At Time
Of Suspension
Summarizes the strong and
compelling evidence that forms the basis of decision to place faculty
on suspension with pay (from 17.1)
To the extent possible report
shall include date, location, and description of the incident
CSU not required to release
information that would endanger/compromise investigation
Faculty may submit rebuttal
to summary report
Article
18 - Reprimands
18.8 00
Written Reprimands
May be subject to review if
reprimand is cited in subsequent notice of discipline
May be subject of arbitral
review if cited in notice of decision not to reappoint, promote or tenure
Article
21 - Summer Term Employment
Cal Poly SLO summer agreement
remains in effect (MOU 21.5)
Article
21 00Summer Term Employment
21.23 Terms Applicable to All Campuses
Leaves of absence, sick leave
Units taught in Summer Quarter
count towards Service Salary Increases (SSI)
Article
22 00
Leaves of Absence Without Pay
22.1 00
clarified to reflect that leaves of absence with pay are not automatic
Leaves may be shorter than
a term
Article
23 00
Leaves of Absence With Pay
Bereavement increased to 5
days
No geographical requirements
Maternity/Paternity Leave
Can take 30 consecutive
days within 135 day period
Period runs 60 days before
birth to 75 days after birth
Article
24 00Sick Leave
24.23c Faculty can now donate
up to forty (40) hours of leave credits to catastrophic leave program
Leave credits can now total
up to six calendar months
After three months, President
may request verification of continuing illness or injury
Upon exhaustion of home campus
credits
faculty may be eligible
for donations from other CSU campuses to complete approved leave period
Only if receiving campus President
agrees
Article
26 00Fee Waiver
26.1 Three-year appointees,
regardless of time base are now eligible for fee waiver
Clarifies that only Category
I fees are waived for employees:
Category III fees must
continue to be paid if services used
Dependents do not get all
Category I fees waived
Just those listed in 26.12
Article
26 Fee Waiver
Fee Categories are defined
in Executive Order 740:
Category I 00fees that must be paid to apply
to, enroll in, or attend the University
Category II 00
fees to pay the full cost of instruction required by statute
Category III 00
Fees, other than Category I fees, paid to receive materials, services
or use of facilities provided by the University
Article
27 Sabbatical Leaves
All one-half of full
salary leaves shall be approved if they are recommended after satisfying
the requirements of 27.5-27.8:
The quality of the proposed
sabbatical project
Effect on curriculum and operation
of department should the leave be granted,
And other program needs and
campus budget
Article
27 Sabbatical Leaves
For other Sabbatical leaves:
Campus shall grant no fewer
leaves than twelve percent of total number of campus faculty eligible
to apply for a sabbatical leave
Sabbaticals for entire year
do not count toward 12 percent target
Target only applies if there
are enough faculty eligible for a sabbatical and actually apply
Faculty get service credit
toward SSIs
Article
31 - Salary
GSI 00
20.7% Total (not including compounding)
3.0% effective July 1, 2006
1.0% effective June 30, 2007
3.7% effective July 1, 2007
2.0% effective June 30, 2008
3.0% effective July 1, 2008
2.0% effective June 30, 2009
4.0% effective July 1, 2009
2.0% effective June 30, 2010
Article
31 - Salary
Budget Augmentation
CSU will be requesting an
additional 1.0% augmentation to salary pool for FY 2007/08, 2008/09,
and 2009/10.
In the event CSU receives
augmentation, the GSI shall be increased by 1.0%
Article
31 - Salary
Post Promotion Increases
For each of Fiscal Years 2008/09
and 2009/10 there will be a $7,000,000 systemwide pool
No requirement to expend pool,
but dollars roll over
Pool includes $700,000 for
appeals
At end of PPI program, unspent
funds will be added to June 30, 2010 GSI
Article
31 - Salary
Post Promotion Increase Program
Only Full Professors, Lecturer
Ds, Head Coaches and equivalent Librarian, Counselor Faculty eligible
Criteria: teaching, scholarship-professional
development and service
No special evaluation required
One half of eligible recipients
awarded PPI in any one year of program
Article
31 - Salary
Post Promotion Increase Program
Meets = 2.5% Increase
Exceeds = Between 2.75% to
3.5% Increase
Appeal Process:
Five member Full Professor
campus committee
or
Contractual process
Article
31 00Equity Increases
Equity Increases
For each of Fiscal Years 2007/08
and 2008/09 there will be a $7,000,000 systemwide pool
No requirement to expend pool,
but dollars roll over
First year focus of program
is Assistant Professors and equivalent librarian, coaching and counselor
ranks
Second year focus is Associate
and Full or equivalent librarian, coaching and counselor
Article
31 - Salary
Equity Program
Oversight Committee shall
be established
Appeal mechanism similar to
PPI
Unspent funds shall be rolled
into GSI
Article
31 - Salary
Service Salary Increases
For all SSIs awarded under
this agreement: to determine eligibility, FMIs must be deducted regardless
of rank or classification they were received
2.65% SSI will be awarded
retro for FY year 2006/07 00and prospective in FY years 2007/08, 2008/09
and 2009/10
Effective on employee00
anniversary date
Article
32 - Benefits
AB 211 Benefits eligibility
(lecturers and coaches employed 40% for two consecutive quarters) now
incorporated into contract
32.22 - Parking rates may
be increased on July 1 by the same percentages as the negotiated GSI
Article
33 - Holidays
Veterans00Day
now observed on November
11th
cannot be moved
Article
38 - Layoff
38.47 Reduction in Part-time
Lecturer Time base
Clarified to reflect that
a partial or complete reduction in time base of a part-time faculty
unit may be accomplished pursuant to 12.5 and does not require the layoff
of the employee
38.48 Pursuant to Article
12 discussion:
Three-year appointees that
have either a zero time base in year three or no work available to establish
a subsequent three-year appointment are eligible to be on the reemployment
list
Article
40 00Extension For-Credit Employment
CSU faculty who develop courses
offered through Extended Education via class code 2322 (Special Programs
for credit) shall have the right of 00irst preference00to teach
the course
Faculty who request to teach
in class code 2323 (Extension For Credit), and who are qualified, shall
be considered by the President before the course assignment is finalized
download Faculty Contract Changes
