Student Support Proposals 

Fully-released 12-month Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator. The DEI Coordinator will be charged with coordinating the Diversity Fellowship, Diversity Certificate, dispersing diversity recruitment focused money from the travel fund and building the necessary College-wide structures and hiring pipelines needed to diversify the Full-Time Faculty body (Article VIII).

100% released time for Department Heads of Counseling, Advising and Library. 50% released time for an Assistant Department Head in Counseling, Advising and the Library.  (Article VIII Sections C, D and E).

Fair compensation and leadership structure for faculty leaders, including Curriculum Coordinators and other faculty in charge of programs and degrees (Article XVI). Detailed proposal attached.

Reduce overall class size from 36 to 24 students. (Article VIII). Detailed proposal attached

Staffing ratios in Advising and Counseling and guaranteed positions in Learning Lab and Library (Article VIII)

Remove the requirement for six hours of drop/add and advising (Article VIII. J. and XVIII. B)

Eliminate Exhibit D to reflect current practices in Advising

Address impact of Express Enrollment, New Student Registration and other cross-departmental events on job duties of Counselors and Advisors (Article VIII Sections C and E)

Provide option for all 9-month Full-Time Faculty to change their workload option periodically (Article VIII). Detailed proposal attached

Faculty in departments where the 27 credit/33 contact hour workload is not available shall have the option of the 24 credit/ 30 contact workload.

Any department offering two or more laboratory classes shall be required to employ a Rank A or B faculty member.

Limit dual enrollment students to 25% of total course cap for that section

Define work week for Advisors as Monday-Friday (Article VIII Section E Part 2). Detailed proposal attached

Define work week for Rank A and B faculty as 35 hours per week during the academic year (Article VIII Section B Part 2).

For Counseling, Advising, Learning Lab, Library: incorporate remote work agreement into CBA guaranteeing 2 day per week remote.

Ensemble and applied music (instruction) will count in-load (Article VIII, Section A).