Common use of Instructional Year Clause in Contracts

Instructional Year. There will be 173 calendared work days in a regular, full-time contract for instructional faculty, including 165 instructional days and 8 non-instructional days. Faculty members are professionals performing a body of work. The completion of professional duties by faculty members will include activities determined at the discretion of the faculty member that extends beyond these 173 calendared days. The 165 instructional days shall be scheduled in accordance with the instructional year calendar (Appendix C): The non-instructional days will consist of the following: a) The three workday before the first day of Fall, and one workday before the Winter and Spring quarters will be an onsite non-instructional workday during which faculty will be available to students and administration. The first workday before Fall quarter will be used for Opening Day activities. The second and third days shall be used for instructional and related professional duties consistent with 6.9. b) Three (3) days, each academic year, during Fall, Winter or Spring quarters, will be scheduled for a faculty-wide in-service. These days will be scheduled on Fridays or other days as agreed upon by the parties. Faculty will report onsite for this in-service. Faculty will be provided with an opportunity to provide input into in-service activities. c) Except for those programs regularly scheduled to exceed the 173 day work year, extensions of the work year will be by mutual agreement between the faculty member and College. Such extensions shall be compensated at the faculty member’s regular per diem. d) It is understood that faculty members are professionals performing a body of work. The discharge of professional duties by faculty members will include activities determined at the discretion of the faculty member that extend beyond these 173 calendared days.