ERIC Number: ED294599
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 103
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Faculty Personnel Policy Statement Adopted by the Board of Governors of the Pima County Community College District, State of Arizona, for 1987-88.
Pima County Community Coll. District, AZ. Board of Governors.; National Education Association, Washington, DC.
This policy statement, adopted by the Board of Govenors of the Pima County Community College District in 1986, sets forth the personnel policies for faculty in the district. The 15 articles in the agreement include the preamble and related statements and cover the following topics: (1) conditions of work, including general responsibilities, workload, load hours, accountability, overload and supplemental agreements, and department chairs; (2) faculty employment, including policies related to non-discrimination, faculty appointment, salary schedule placement, seniority, contract renewal, and personnel files; (3) professional status, including provisions related to academic freedom, faculty and student evaluations, and activity in professional and charitable organizations; (4) full-time, summer, and substitute salary rates; (5) benefits, including health care, life insurance, and social security; (6) leaves of absence; (7) professional growth and development programs; (8) voluntary and involuntary transfers; (9) discipline, suspension, and termination; (10) complaints against faculty; (11) miscellaneous conditions of employment related to patents, copyrights, royalties, outside employment, out-of-pocket expenses, and retraining; (12) retrenchment of faculty; (13) grievance procedures; and (14) rights of the bargaining unit. Appendixes explain the process for recognizing and negotiating with employee groups; present the final report of the Task Force on Academic Organization on such topics as academic articulation and communication, class size, department chairpersons, faculty mobility, and non-traditional faculty roles; and provide information on the charge of the Task Force on Employee Assistance Program, the college's early retirement program, and the development of a faculty personnel procedures manual. (MDB)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Contracts, Department Heads, Employment Practices, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Workload, Fringe Benefits, Grievance Procedures, Job Layoff, Leaves of Absence, Personnel Policy, Released Time, Teacher Dismissal, Teacher Retirement, Teacher Salaries, Tenure, Two Year Colleges, Unions
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Pima County Community Coll. District, AZ. Board of Governors.; National Education Association, Washington, DC.
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