Maya Bendotoff
In late August CCFT and the District agreed to continue the pilot program for additional pay for designated ancillary activities. The program represents an effort to include adjunct faculty members, who compose about two thirds of all faculty, in key shared governance work at the college. The “pilot program” started in the spring of 2014; since that time various tweaks have been made. The program provides for a modest amount of funding to be spread among adjuncts representing faculty on what are currently identified as the most important committees on campus. Most committee reps will receive a stipend of $250; Faculty Senate reps will receive a stipend of $500 given at least twice as many meetings as the other committee.
Changes for 2016-17
Applies to faculty members with reemployment preference
The District (administration) expressed an interest that the program target faculty members that have been at Cabrillo for some time. Given this, the program targets faculty members with reemployment preference.
Elected Faculty Senate Reps added back in
Previous versions of the pilot program included Faculty Senate reps. The District team wanted to exclude Senate reps last year for various reasons, the main one being that they wanted full-time faculty to fill the current seats. The Senate formed a subcommittee to discuss adding Senate seats for adjuncts, but no progress had been made on this front. Fortunately, the District agreed to reestablish stipends for Senate seats.
Regular reports to constituency groups expected
In previous versions of the pilot program, some communication between reps and constituency groups was expected (mainly one email/semester). In the current iteration of the program adjunct reps are to send out a brief email update after each meeting to their constituency groups (all faculty or college divisions for Faculty Senate division reps) and copy the appropriate VP.
Committee Reps for fall 2016
The following committees and reps have been approved for fall 2016:
Institutional Effectiveness: Sara Decelle
Safety: Owen Miller
Facilities: Karen Groppi
Technology: Rod Norden
Faculty Senate: John Govsky, Timothy Frank and Claire Thorson
Note that the Student Equity Committee is not included in this iteration. This is because funding from Student Equity can be used to compensation adjuncts for participation in accordance with our Side Letter of Agreement on Short-Term Restricted Fund Assignments: http://devcp19.ccftcabrillo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-17.1-Short-TermResFund071916withform.pdf
Thanks in advance to adjunct faculty reps for serving on these committees!
You can view the Side Letter of Agreement online at: http://devcp19.ccftcabrillo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-17.5-Ancillary-Pilot-for-2016-17.pdf