SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DISTRICT NUMBER SEVEN
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
REGULAR MEETING OF JUNE 27, 2012
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ACTION
Subject:
Ratify Agreement By and Between The Board of Trustees Of Community
College District Number VII and the Shoreline Community College
Federation of Teachers, Local No. 1950, AFT Washington/AFT/AFL-CIO
Effective: July 1, 2012 Through June 30, 2015
Background
Shoreline Community College recognizes the Shoreline Community College Federation of
Teachers as the exclusive negotiating representative for academic employees as defined in
RCW 28B.52. Last Spring (2011), the College entered into an agreement to negotiate limited
re-openers this year and to roll the rest of the contract dated July 1, 2008, through June 30,
2011. As a result, changes were negotiated and agreed in the following articles and sections:
General contract updating:
Revisions were made to conform references to the College’s current organizational structure
and Vice President titles. References to “advising” or “advising duties” will be replaced with
“academic advising duties” wherever they appear in the contract.
Article VI: Terms and Conditions of Employment
Section B: Simplifies the process and parties needed for faculty to mutually agree with their
dean on a non-traditional academic calendar. This change provides increased flexibility and
efficiency to meet year-round student needs in scheduling faculty. Section C: Conforms
phrasing “academic advising duties” and specifies those duties may be performed online and
in-person. This change emphasizes that academic advising is a faculty duty that may be
performed both online and in-person. Section D: First change emphasizes that full-time
instructional faculty will provide advising in multiple modalities and will be assigned
advisees. Housekeeping change in Contact Hours eliminates reference to obsolete
Cosmetology program. This change reiterates that academic advising is a faculty duty and
specifies it will be assigned. Second change streamlines the process for the VPASA to
determine course capacities. This change can increase the economic efficiency of high
capacity classes.
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Article X: Reduction In Force
Section B: Updates RIF units to reflect current programs. Section D: First change clarifies
the recall rights of RIF’d faculty to receive assignments, necessary training to provide online
or hybrid instruction, and designating minimum compensation level. Second change adds a
new conditional “trigger” to suspend the provision that limits the replacement of RIF’d fulltime tenured faculty by part-time Associate faculty based on a “rolling cumulative average”
of budget reductions in three consecutive fiscal years.
Article XII: Corrective and Disciplinary Action
New Article expands and replaces prior Corrective Action article to distinguish and adds
more detailed progressive corrective action and discipline process for tenured faculty.
Article XVIII: Evaluations
Section B: Clarifies selection of faculty peer on evaluation team to avoid conflict of interest.
Section D: Reduces the frequency of recurring evaluations for Associate faculty; increases
administrative efficiency in evaluations, eliminating evaluation in 3rd and 4h and 7th and 8th
quarters, retains evaluations in the 5th and 6th quarters, and clarifies ongoing evaluations
every fifth year after the first year’s evaluation.
The Federation and the College have mutually agreed to resume negotiations in fall quarter
2012 in a limited reopener environment to further clarify and reorganize the contract.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the Board approve the changes made to the Agreement By and
Between The Board of Trustees of Community College District Number VII and the
Shoreline Community College Federation of Teachers, Local No. 1950, AFT
Washington/AFT/AFL-CIO, Effective July 1, 2012 Through June 30, 2015.
Prepared by:
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Stephen P. Smith
Vice President for Human Resources and Legal Affairs
Shoreline Community College
June 18, 2012