1. APSOU CBA Highlights Major changes Article 1: Preamble Contract extension to three years, now to August 31, 2018 More meaningful and clearer academic freedom language

2. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 8: Program Chairs: Duties & Administrative Release Inserts language defining chair duties (nothing in CBA 2013/15 due to reorg) Formula for computing minimum administrative release for each program, i.e., for 2016/17 minimum aggregate release for all programs total is 460 ELU (currently there is about 425 ELU administrative release)

3. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 9: Professional Development Professional Development funds will remain at current level ($42,000/yr) (this is not a change but SOU wanted to reduce it) Individual Professional Development Account (PDA) will increase to $1375/yr for full-time professorial faculty and to $825/yr for full- time professional faculty

4. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 10: Appointments & Evaluation of Faculty Clearer language on Notice of Non-renewal Part-time APSOU members on renewable fixed term appointments will now have the same non-renewal noticing timelines as full-time faculty members

5. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 11: Retrenchment Shortened timeline to go into retrenchment Targeted limitation on right to grieve as long as provisional plan makes clear how each of the factors listed (2 a –h) are considered New protections if administration attempts to alter the financial magnitude of the plan (resulting in greater faculty reductions) between provisional and final plan (i.e., admin must include documentation of significant deterioration of fund balance projections or enrollment projections since declaration)

6. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 11: Retrenchment (cont.) Furlough status will be offered to eligible faculty (faculty with indefinite tenure or three- year renewable appointments) for 3 years instead of current 2 years from date of termination Gives terminated faculty 30 calendar days from their notice to exercise early retirement benefits Better language for re-employment of faculty terminated during retrenchment; i.e., if returning to the same program faculty member must be offered equivalent or better appt. (rank & years in rank)

7. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 12: Salary & Fringe Benefits Re-defined “Faculty Overload Compensation Rate” as 125% of term-by-term rate beginning fall 2016 Clarified when reimbursement may occur (i.e. during the term overload happened or by end of the academic year that overload happened) Maintained minimum 5% promotion rate between ranks (SOU wanted to reduce it to 4%)

8. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 12: Salary & Fringe Benefits (cont.) Across-the-board (and equivalent adjustments to floor tables) of: January 1, 2016 = 2.5% for Assistants, 2.0% all other ranks January 1, 2017 = 2.75% for all ranks January 1, 2018 = 3.5% for all ranks No contingencies on enrollment or SCH

9. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 13: Summer Session All faculty now have same “service day” expectations as professorial faculty had in 2013/15 CBA (professional faculty had higher service day expectations in 2013/15 CBA) Faculty can be assigned up to 75% (from 50%) of summer service to ROAR events Summer chairs compensation rate detailed (Table 13E; similar to how SOU did this in summer, 2015)

10. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 14: Retirement and Relinquishment of Tenure & Three-Year appointments Clarified that benefits are relinquishment benefits for tenured or 3-year contract faculty Maintained retirees receive health & dental benefits for “up to 7- years” or until age 65 Agreed to a ‘rationing trigger’ of 1% of operating revenue (which is equivalent to approximately $590,000 if too many relinquishments in a year)

11. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 19: Working Conditions Refocused article to Workload & moved Working Conditions items to Article 20 Removed language stating One (1) ELU is equated to 5.5% of faculty member’s workload Added favorable & clear definition of 45 ELU load for all faculty, where 36 ELU is standard professorial teaching load for 1 FTE

12. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 19: Workload (cont.) Gained explicit loading language for: ‘excessive advising’ (exceeds 34 advisee load) Over-enrolled classes (to be defined this year) Modest increase for loading of labs from 0.66 ELU/contact hour to at least 0.75 ELU/contact hour (if prepped or additional sections of same course #) Other language stipulating hour-for-hour loading in some lab situations

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14. Article 20: Working Conditions Moved existing working conditions language here Reduced the time for using temporary faculty and program’s developing long-term plan for vacancies from “3 and 3 years” to “2 and 2 years”

15. APSOU CBA Highlights Article 21: Notices and Communication We (APSOU president) will receive mandated and scheduled reports from the administration to monitor important information about bargaining unit faculty including: Status of non-renewable faculty (filling vacant positions) Faculty on sabbatical Calculations guiding release for chairs and actual release awarded Expenditures of professional development monies (Art. 9) Summer appointment and compensation information Announcement of upcoming year’s term-by-term rates Report on faculty who have relinquished tenure or 3-year contracts to determine whether ‘rationing trigger’ will be reached

16. APSOU CBA Highlights Other Article 3: Recognition -- minor changes Article 4: Association Security -- minor changes (did not get SOU to pay for APSOU President’s release) Current CBA language for Articles 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 & 26 (with appropriate date changes) MOU mandating a task force to study “Sick Leave Sharing” for faculty Bargaining note to study impact on Senior Instructor 1 faculty of table change to accommodate new rank of Senior Instructor 2