Teaching Workload. A. The full-time teaching load shall be considered to consist of fifteen (15) contact hours per week. Twelve (12) contact hours per week shall be considered to be the workload for full- time teachers who teach three (3) or more composition classes (English 088, 091, 092, 093, 131, 132, 135, 139). B. It is understood by the parties that the fifteen (15) contact hour full-time teaching load requires an equal number of hours per week in preparation and follow-up relative to classroom instruction. C. The teaching load shall also include two (2) announced, posted, and scheduled conference hours, during which teachers shall be regularly available to students, for each three (3) contact hours in a teacher’s contractual assignments. Such conference hours shall be posted on each teacher's office door at the beginning of each semester or term. D. In addition to the twenty-five (25) hours of scheduled class and conference hours (15+10), and non-scheduled fifteen (15) hours of preparation and follow-up (15+10+15), College teachers shall be available for such official Faculty Organization, College Organization, and Departmental meetings as may be scheduled. E. A General College contact hour is defined as a fifty to fifty-two (50 to 52) minute classroom session, depending on the number of minutes necessary to meet the State contact hour mandate, inclusive of laboratory periods, and an apprentice program contact hour is defined as a fifty-five (55) minute classroom session, inclusive of laboratory periods. F. Extra-contractual compensation shall be paid for any contact hours in excess of an annual thirty (30) contact hour contractual load. G. Should the contact hours for courses available within the teaching discipline for which the teacher was hired result in an annual contractual contact hour load of less than thirty (30) contact hours, the shortfall in contact hours shall be covered by treating an equivalent number of extra-contractual contact hours the teacher may be teaching in that particular contractual year as contractual contact hours having no extra-contractual compensation. H. Should a teacher have no extra-contractual contact hours to apply toward contractual load in a year in which an approved annual contractual contact hour load is less than thirty (30) contact hours, the teacher’s contractual compensation shall be reduced by an amount equivalent to what would be the teacher’s extra-contractual compensation for the deficient number of contractual contact hours. I. The Administration shall schedule the contractual assignments of full-time faculty prior to scheduling class assignments for other individuals. J. Whenever possible, a probationary teacher shall be assigned no more than three (3) different contractual course preparations in any one semester. For the purposes of this Article, a distance education course shall be considered a different preparation than the same course offered through traditional means. K. With respect to a contractual assignment scheduled to begin at 8:10 a.m. or earlier, thirty minutes of a contractual conference hour may be scheduled immediately prior to the assignment; for a contractual assignment scheduled to end at 5 p.m. or later, thirty minutes of a contractual conference hour may be scheduled immediately following the assignment. L. Teachers serving on College, Department, or Program accreditation committees may use up to five (5) conference hours per semester for such accreditation responsibilities. M. Involuntary assignments to non HFC campus sites shall be made to qualified teachers through inverse seniority. N. All arrangements for substitutes for contractual or extra-contractual teaching shall be conducted through the Associate ▇▇▇▇ and shall have the approval of the appropriate Vice President. O. A Course Scheduling Audit Committee, consisting of equal representation from the Union and Administration, shall be established to review annually Department practices in the scheduling of courses, with the purpose of formulating recommendations to the College President designed to increase student enrollment, minimize the number of under- enrolled course sections, and maximize the efficient use of the human and physical resources of the Academic, Career, and Student Services Areas of the College.
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