As a result of the reduction in State revenue that the District will receive for the 2003-04 fiscal year, it will be necessary to reduce the number of class sections and services offered during each of the academic terms.  This will have a significant effect on the available assignments for part-time faculty and will impact the ability to provide those part-time faculty identified as Associate Faculty members with an assignment currently provided for under the collective bargaining agreement.  Therefore, the District and the Association agree as follows:

For the 2003-2004 academic year only, the provisions under Article 6, Section 6.5.6- Associate Faculty- under reemployment rights will be suspended and replaced with the following:

1.   It shall continue to be the responsibility of Department Chairs to recommend to the Vice President, Academic Affairs or the Vice President, Student Services, the part-time faculty to be assigned within their department.

2.   In filling available assignments for part-time faculty, subject to paragraph 3 below, the Department Chair will first provide an assignment to all available part-time faculty who have achieved Associate Faculty status as of the March 2003 list unless there are not enough assigned hours available to provide each Associate Faculty member an assignment at the level of the previous year. Then the Department Chair may assign a lower hourly assignment.  Also, if there are not enough assigned hours for all Associate Faculty members, the Department Chair will determine which Associate Faculty members will receive an assignment and at what level of hours.

3.   In determining Associate Faculty member assignments, the Department Chair shall take into consideration not only whether the Associate Faculty member meets the minimum qualifications for an assignment but also whether the Associate Faculty member has prior experience in the assignment.

4.   If an Associate Faculty member is not provided with at least the same number of assigned hours as assigned in the 2002-03 academic year, or if the Associate Faculty member is not offered an assignment, such an Associate Faculty member shall, if rehired for the 2004-05 academic year, be entitled to an assignment that reflects the assigned hours the faculty member was assigned during the 2002-03 academic year.

5.   Any Associate Faculty member who was assigned an office hour during the 2002-03 academic year shall for the 2003-04 academic year continue to hold his/her office hour regardless of any reduction in his/her assignment. All office hours for part-time Associate Faculty, as provided for under Article 6,Section 6.5.2 shall be assigned to an appropriate instructional laboratory.

This memorandum of understanding shall not modify any other portions of Section 6.5.6 or any other provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.