1. Everything you need to know but were never told by the CSU…
Ready-2-Zoom #5: CFA Success Kit for Lecturers Part 2 Co-hosted by Faculty Center & CFA March 28, 2019
Bonnie Thorne, CFA Lecturer Rep
Ruth Ahn, Faculty Center
Everything you need to know but were never told by the CSU…

2. Salary Raises (Art. 31) Lecturer Range Elevation (Art. 12.16-20)
-Must have been in salary range for 5 years
-Salary must be at or above the SSI max of your current Range
- But see new policy 15

3. Range Elevation
Range elevation represents a 5% increase in salary and movement from one range to the next.
To be eligible for a range elevation you must be at or above the SSI max for your current range, and have been in that range for at least 5 years.
SSI’s required to get to SSI max 17

4. Reappointment Rights
If rehired, right to “similar assignment”, which establishes entitlement (Article 12.3)
If accumulate work up to full-time, subsequent appointment is full-time unconditional (Article 12.5)
Periodic evaluation and the right to ”careful consideration” (Article 12.7 & ) 26

5. Article 12.29 and preference for work:
After Tenured and probationary faculty (including FERP* & PRTB**), administrators, TA’s and other student employees, or volunteers are assigned courses…
*Faculty Early Retirement Program
**Pre-Retirement Reduction in Time Base 30

6. (12.29a) Assignment order at start of academic year:
1) 3-year full-time
2) Continuing multi-year full-time (rare)
3) 3-year part-time
4) Lecturers on department reemployment list
5) Continuing multi-year part-time (very rare)
6) Visiting faculty
7) All other part-time or full-time lecturers employed in the previous academic year must be given careful consideration 31

7. (12.29b) Assignment Order During Academic Year
1) 3-year full-time
2) Continuing multi-year full-time
3) 3-year part-time
4) Lecturers on department reemployment list
5) 1-year full-time
6) Continuing one-year & multi-year part-time
7) Visiting faculty
8) All other part-time or full-time lecturers employed in the current or previous academic year must be given careful consideration 33

8. New and additional work
If any classes are left after assignment of work, they become new and additional work
Order of assignment:
3-year part-time up to 1.0 time base*
*Lecturer with 1-year appt can be appointed first if objectively better qualified
1-year part-time up to 1.0 time base
Others: only at this point can new lecturers be hired! 27

9. Important re. Preference for Work
Whenever your department hired a brand new lecturer, it should raise a red flag!
If the new lecturer is assigned units that ANY 3- yr or 1-yr part-time lecturer is qualified to teach who is not yet at 15 units/full time, then it is a preference for work contract violation
Also, lecturers who lose work due to being bumped have the same contractual right to bump a lecturer lower in preference for work 27

10. Periodic Evaluation (Art. 15)
Periodic Evaluation has 3 components:
1) “Annual summary of achievements” (or some opportunity to convey your engagement as an academic); usually in Spring of periodic evaluation
2) Student opinions of teaching
3) A “peer” evaluation (usually a classroom observation; may sometimes be a curriculum review) 38

11. Periodic Evaluation (continued)
“Peer Evaluation”: Classroom visit requires consultation and minimum 5 days notice (15.14); this may also be a curriculum review
Periodic evaluation includes an opportunity for other peer input
For appointment of one semester or two quarters or less, periodic evaluation not required but may be requested (basis of careful consideration) 40

12. Personnel Action Files (Art. 11)
Your PAF is the official record of your accomplishments
It is the official basis of “careful consideration” in hiring decisions
It is your responsibility to verify the accuracy of its contents 41

13. Personnel Action Files (cont.)
Your official PAF lives in Academic or Faculty Affairs, or the dean’s office
You have the right to add appropriate information to your PAF, including non-official evaluations and letters from students, so long as they are not anonymous
You must be given a copy 5 days before any item is placed in your PAF. (11.4) 42

14. Grievance Procedure (Art.10)
2 tracks: Contractual and statutory
Both have 42 day deadline from time of “violation”; contact your faculty rights committee sooner rather than later! 46

15. Unemployment Insurance Benefits (UI)
All lecturers with contingent contracts are legally entitled to UI benefits every term break
Based on 1989 Cervisi decision and EDD statute g which legally defines “reasonable assurance of work” 61

16. Personal Holiday (Art. 33)
You’re entitled to one paid personal holiday per calendar year
Scheduling of this day must be by mutual agreement with chair or appropriate administrator
Can be taken for any reason
Use it or lose it; cannot be rolled over 72