Major Federation Gains

The Federation provides its members with a fair degree of legal and contractual protection. Most importantly, through collective bargaining agreements, the Federation has been able to achieve a number of gains for its members. The highlights are presented below. By clicking on the hypertext link, you can go directly to the relevant contract section, which will appear at the top of your screen. (Use your browser's "back" button to return from the contract to this page.)

A Grievance Procedure

This has stopped abuses and prompted management to become more sensitive to the needs of all employees.A Reduction in Contact HoursIn the contract negotiated in 2000, all full-time faculty saw their contact hours reduce. Culinary faculty had their contact hours reduced from 30 to 24, while all other faculty had their contact hours reduced from 24 to 20. All full-time faculty also received for office hours in addition.

Reduction in Contact Hours

In the contract signed in 2000, all faculty received a reduction in contact hours. Culinary faculty received a reduction from 30 to 24 contact hours, while all other faculty received a reduction from 24 to 20 contact hours.

Pro-Rata Insurance for Part Time Faculty

To our knowledge, AIPH is the only school in the system in which part- timers receive a contribution for health benefits.

Company Contribution to Family Benefits

Faculty who take family benefits currently receive a company contribution of $100.00 per month in addition to whatever flex credits they have. Part-time faculty receive an additional $5.00 per month towards their benefits purchase. To our knowledge, this does not happen anywhere else among the Art Institutes.

Seniority System

While the system is far from perfect, at least there is a system. Formerly, some ADs were fond of scheduling their friends and business associates over qualified faculty with many years of service.

Sabbaticals

Full-time faculty with 21 quarters of full-time service (or the equivalent) may take up to one full quarter off, with pay and benefits, every five years. Part-time faculty with ten years of service may, every five years, take paid time off equivalent to the number of hours taught in the previous two years.

Office Hours

All full-time faculty have office hours.

Guarantees for Part-time Faculty

Part-time faculty can't be continued as Temporary Full-time indefinitely. After serving as temporary full-time for six of eight quarters, a faculty member must be made permanently full-time. Furthermore, part-time faculty with more than 12 years of service are guaranteed an average number of classes each quarter, based upon their quarterly average over the past two years. Part-timers hired before March 20, 1997, cannot be forced to teach at night. Lastly, permanent part-timers have first choice of unscheduled classes over new hires or part-time faculty on review status.

Formal Discipline/Complaint Procedure

We have outlined a process for dealing with complaints against faculty from both administrators and students that provides for the faculty member's timely notification of the complaint and the identification of the complainant in most cases.

Indemnification of Faculty

Our faculty are protected by the school from law suits brought against them by students when the faculty member is performing normal--and legal--classroom duties.

Limits to Class Size

Class size is maximized at 27 students for most classes. If the school finds it necessary to increase that size, the faculty member must grant permission. Classes with more than 27 also carry a small economic bonus for the faculty member teaching that class.

Committee Pay

Faculty serving on standing committees will be paid for all meeting time.

Limits to Course Batching

Course batching, having one faculty member teach two or more subjects in the same room at the same time, is allowed only in special circumstances and only with the permission of the union. As a result, we don't have a "one room school house" very often.