Accepted Proposals:
Please Note: Until the final contract is signed, changes may occur in the following language.
Article 7.3.5.1 Appointments and Renewals
Individuals who take time off under an approved FMLA-protected leave shall not have their six-of-nine quarter progress interrupted; the quarter in which the individual returns shall be counted as the next quarter in the six-of-nine succession.
Article 7.3.5.2 Appointments and Renewals
A permanent full-time faculty member who consistently rejects classes, or who requests less than a full-time schedule over a period of six out of nine quarters will move to a permanent part-time status and will be considered part-time for subsequent scheduling purposes. Should the individual subsequently desire to return to permanent full-time status he/she will be required to do so through the normal means outlined in this contract. This provision shall not apply to individuals who are approved for a reduced course load while on an approved FMLA-protected leave.
Article 7.3.11.1 Appointments and Renewals
The provisions for course posting in section 3.11 above shall not apply to courses designed by faculty members at the behest of the administration. In such cases, the individual who designs the course shall have first right of refusal, provided that he or she is credentialed to teach the course. Should the faculty member who designed the course decline to teach it, the course shall then be posted as per sub-section 3.11.
Article 7.8 Appointments and Renewals
Every effort will be made to not reassign faculty members once a quarter has begun. Should enrollment or factors outside the Employer’s control necessitate a course reassignment during or after the first week of the quarter, the Employer will make every effort to make such reassignment from among those courses already on the affected faculty member’s schedule.
Article 9.4 Hours of Work
The Union President shall be granted four (4) hours of release time per week to conduct union business. Academic Department Directors may conduct up to 44 hours of independent studies in exchange for the four hours of release time granted. The Employer will notify the union of the number of independent study hours in exchange for the four hour assigned to the various AD’s each quarter.
Article 9.5 Hours of Work
Part-time faculty are not required to attend the All Faculty meeting in the 12th week of the quarter but are encouraged to do so.
Article 9.6 Hours of Work
It is understood that all faculty will attend applicable department area meetings for the departments to which the faculty member is assigned. Any part-time faculty member teaching in more than one department shall not be required to attend more than on twelfth-week general departmental meeting, and that meeting shall be in the department in which the majority of the faculty member’s classes are divided equally among several departments, the faculty member shall have the discretion in choosing which general department meeting to attend.
Article 9.6.1 Hours of Work
Faculty members who cannot attend the scheduled department meeting due to external commitments may use up to two hours of accrued personal time. If adequate personal time is not available two (2) hours of pay will be deducted.
Article 9.11 Hours of Work
Independent Study, except as modified by Section 4 of this article faculty shall perform student consultation and grading for student independent study that is not a result of a curriculum change. Faculty will be compensated at their hourly rate at the rate of 4 (four) hours per student assigned per quarter.
Article 9.11.1 Hours of Work
There will be no requirement for faculty to accept independent studies.
Article 10.1 Office Hours
Permanent full-time faculty shall schedule 4 office hours per week. These hours will be distributed to all students taught by the instructor and will be submitted to the Academic Affairs Office not later than the 12th week of the quarter preceding the quarter for which the office hours are being scheduled. The Academic Affairs Office will prominently post the hours. Faculty will use office hours counseling his/her students and personal course preparation. While office hours are used at the discretion of the faculty member, they are to be used in the pursuit of school objectives. It is understood that the faculty will be in attendance at the school during these hours.
Article 10.6 Office Hours
Full time faulty who are assigned two or more classes listed in Appendix 2 - remedial and writing intensive classes - will be eligible to work one additional office hour each week for the 11 teaching weeks of the quarter. Regardless of the number of appendix 2 classes assigned to the faculty member, the additional office hour per week is limited to one.
This additional office hour may be worked off-campus. The wages for this additional weekly office hour will be paid in the final pay of the quarter. The Curriculum Committee can approve additional courses to be added to the Appendix 2.
Article 11.1 Seniority
Seniority is determined according to Section 6, below. Persons who are members of the bargaining unit prior to March 10, 1986 will have experience at any of the design schools owned by EDMC counted for the purposes of seniority.
Article 11.2 Seniority
When vacancies occur after the tentative schedule has been posted (end of the 8th week) the affected classes shall be offered to the most senior faculty member as follows:
2.1
The Employer will make the vacancy known to those qualified faculty members via the faculty member’s AIPH email account and home telephone and provide a response time of not less than 12 hours for those faculty members to accept or decline. The vacancy shall be filled from among those faculty members responding in the affirmative.
2.2
The most senior, qualified part-time faculty member shall be assigned first.
2.3
If no qualified part-time faculty members are available or willing to fill said vacancy, those courses shall be distributed among those qualified full-time faculty willing to accept them as overloads.
2.4
If no qualified par-time faculty members or no qualified full-time faculty members are willing or available to fill said vacancies, the courses will be offered to any qualified faculty on review status or temporary faculty.
Article 13.4.1 Working Conditions
Faculty workstation computers will be appropriate to the faculty member’s discipline with adequate RAM, clock speed and disk space to run all applications installed on them, up-to-date peripherals, Internet access, Microsoft Office and any design software appropriate to the faculty member’s discipline for which the school has site licenses. In addition, faculty will be able to apply to have specialty software for classes assigned to the extent that licenses are available.
Article 13.4.5 Working Conditions
The computers in the designated faculty high-end computer stations and similar computers in the 3rd floor Faculty Workspace at 1622 will be upgraded concurrently with faculty workstations. The high-end computer stations will have a scanner connected to them.
Article 13.5 Working Conditions
Effort will be made to limit new course preparations for each faculty member to a maximum of two per quarter. The maximum number of new course preparations per faculty member will be four (4) per academic year. A new course preparation is defined as a course new to the curriculum or existing course not previously taught by the faculty member to whom the course is assigned. Faculty will indicate their desire to receive new course preps for courses that are new to the curriculum will receive notification of the pending new preps at the beginning of the sixth week of the quarter immediately proceeding the quarter being scheduled. Every effort will be made to provide faculty with notification for new course preparation for an existing course, not previously taught by the faculty member, prior to the eighth week notification.
Article 13.14.2 Working Conditions
The instructor is responsible for submitting a signed Preference Form for classes in which he/she does not accept enrollment greater than the caps allow. Preference Forms must be submitted to the Academic Department Director. A copy of the distribution list will be provided to the union during the 9th week of classes.
Article 13.14.5 Working Conditions
The Employer will not seat more confirmed students than any studio or lab can accommodate.
Article 13.15 Working Conditions
With respect to inclement weather, it shall be the employer’s responsibility to decide whether classes should be held and at what times. However, it is still the responsibility of the faculty member to cover the objectives of the course.
Article 13.15.1 Working Conditions
Should inclement weather prevent an individual from performing his/her normal duties no faculty member shall be penalized financially should there be a City of Philadelphia declared state of emergency.
Article 13.15.2 Working Conditions
Should the conditions in section 15.1 above not be met the faculty member shall conduct a make-up session equivalent to the number of instructional hours missed for each class. This will be conducted within three weeks of the absence and the faculty member will coordinate the scheduling of the make-up session with the appropriate Academic Director in order to determine when course appropriate classroom facilities are available. The faculty member will then communicate the date, time and location of the make-up session to his/her students.
Article 13.15.2.1 Working Conditions
Should not course appropriate classroom facilities be available, or there be insufficient time in the quarter to hold the make-up session, the faculty member shall suffer no penalty.
Article 13.15.3 Working Conditions
If the faculty member fails to conduct a make-up session within three weeks, that faculty member will be required to use personal time equivalent to the number of instructional hours missed. If the faculty member does not have sufficient personal time to cover the instructions hours, they will not be paid for the hours missed.
Article 15.7 Course Materials, Software
To the extent permitted by the software manufacturer's license, copies of software packages will be loaded during an assigned course to faculty who:
7.1 Teach the software package
7.2 Anticipate the addition of the software to courses they have taught within the past two years of are currently teaching
Article 15.8 Course Materials, Software
Available software will be loaded for a period of 90 days. Software loans may be renewed for an additional 90 day period as requested by the faculty member provided there are no other faculty waiting to borrow the software under the provisions above.
Article 15.9 Course Materials, Software
In addition, to the extent permitted by the system's arrangements with software providers, legally licensed copies of software packages will be provided to eligible faculty free of charge. Faculty may participate in Employer-sponsored purchase programs for software packages at the applicable discount.
Add this language as previously agree upon (Updated 2/3/09)
Article 15.10 Course Materials, Software
The Dean of Academic Affairs, in conjunction with the Director of Technology, will announce software upgrades no less than 90 days prior to the scheduled implementation of the new software.
Article 15.10.1 Course Materials, Software
Announcement of the upgrade will be made to the entire faculty through a memo in faculty mailboxes and an email sent to the faculty members on leave or sabbatical will be notified by mail. While announcement of software upgrades may be made at end-of-quarter faculty meetings, such announcements alone shall not constitute adequate notice.
Article 15.10.2 Course Materials, Software
Should the College be unable to comply with the 90 days requirement, it shall notify both the union leadership with the planned implementation date and the expected date the software will be available to faculty as soon as it is aware of the specific of the implementation. The employer, in conjunction with the union leadership, will assess the number of affected faculty, the extent of the upgrade and the proposed timeline for implementation, an make appropriate recommendations to insure that faculty who teach the software package in question are able to do so successfully.
Article 15.10.3 Course Materials, Software
Software upgrade announcements to faculty member will identify tile developer's recommended system requirements, which typically include processor type, operating system, memory and hard disk space.
Article 15.11 Course Materials, Software
The employer will make the upgraded software available for loan to faculty through the library subject to the provision of the Article 15, Sections 7. 8, & 9, above, to the extent the license agreement permits the software to be copied and distributed.
Article 15.12 Course Materials, Software
Affected faculty will have the upgraded software installed on their workstations within thirty (30) days of the announcement.
Article 15.12.1 Course Materials, Software
While the Employer adheres to a policy of replacing faculty workstation computers on a three year cycle, cases in which the software upgrade requires a hardware upgrade for the software to run shall be treated as a special circumstance for those affected faculty only. Affected workstations may be upgraded with additional RAM or other internal/peripheral components as necessary or replaced outright as conditions warrant.
Article 15.13 Course Materials, Software
The Employer will provide training in the new software package to those affected faculty members who request it.
Article 15.13.1 Course Materials, Software
Training will be offered on-line, through guided tutorials, as classroom instruction (in-house or elsewhere) or some combination of the three.
Article 15.13.2 Course Materials, Software
The number of faculty members who request training may determine the training method however every effort will be made to accommodate individual schedules so that all faculty member who request training will receive it.
Article 15.13.3 Course Materials, Software
The school will assist faculty in the acquisition of reference texts.
Article 16.7 Wages
In addition to the minimum above, all faculty members will receive an across the board raise of 3% in the first year of this contract, 3.25% in the second year of the contract, and 3.75% in the third year of the contract.
Article 16.9 Wages
Each part-time faculty member assigned to a class of forty or more students will receive a $250 lump sum payment for each class over forty. The number of students will be determined at the end of the drop/add period. The lump sum payment will be paid in the final day of the quarter.
Article 17.2 Benefits
Part-time faculty shall be permitted to participate in the medical plan, and the Employer shall provide any corporate contribution offered on a pro rata basis for hours worked in the quarter. Part-time faculty will be provided $25,000 of life insurance and $25,000 of AD&D insurance at the company expense in each quarter worked. Part-time faculty will participate in the retirement program if they meet the plan requirements for participation. Part-time faculty will not participate in the company long-term disability plan.
Article 20.1 Holidays
The Employer will observe nine (9) paid holidays each calendar year, eight (8) of which are:
Martin Luther King Day
President’s Day
Good Friday
Labor Day
Memorial Day
Veteran’s Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving Day
Article 20.2 Holidays
If two named holidays fall on the same day in the same quarter, the Employer shall have the right to schedule the celebration of one of those holidays on a different day.
Article 20.3 Holidays
The President will designate one (1) paid holiday each year in addition to those listed above and this will not occur during a scheduled vacation.
Article 25.1 Faculty Development
All faculty members should involve themselves as fully as possible in self-renewing creative and scholarly activities. The responsibility for creating such opportunities lies with the institution as will as the faculty members themselves. Such development activities include but are not limited to service to the institution, creative studio endeavors, professional memberships, further education, publications and scholarship. Professional development funding priory will be given to development opportunities related specifically to the faculty member’s area of instruction. As required by the school’s accrediting agency, each faculty member will create and participate in the completion of a faculty development plan, developed on a form approved by the accrediting agency. This plan will be renewed and updated annually and will set out and document training and professional growth activities designed to enhance faculty expertise.
Article 30.8.1 Committee Meeting Notifications
Committee agendas and meeting dates shall be distributed to the faculty via memo prior to the committee meeting; minutes will be distributed via AIPH email accounts. Distributions of agendas and meeting dates shall be the responsibility of the committee chair.
Article 36.1 Notification
The Employer will commit to faculty schedules for each quarter during the 8th week of the quarter immediately preceding the quarter in question, except as modified by paragraph 3.12 of this section, subject to changes in the schedule necessitated by changes in enrollment, remediation placement results, or other changes beyond the Employer’s control. In the event of a schedule change, the faculty ember will be notified immediately by one attempt on the home telephone and via the faculty member’s AIPH email account.
Article 36.5 Notification
All official college communications will be distributed in hard copy via the college faculty mailboxes and the faculty member’s AIPH email account. Email communications sent fro the administration to the faculty will utilize the faculty member’s AIPH email account.
Memorandum of Agreement:
Management and the Union agree to convene an ad hoc task force to meet, discuss and make recommendations as appropriate regarding culinary related facilities layout and design and safety and sanitation issues. This task force will meet no later than 60 days after the contract is ratified. The task force will be comprised of six (6) individuals: three (3) members from the faculty, to include the Union President, and three (3) members of management, to include the Dean of Academic Affairs.
Should the Employer believe that a recommendation from the task force is counter to the school’s interests, the school’s executive committee shall meet with selected members of the task force whose recommendation it questions who will answer questions and provide supporting material. These selected task force members shall consist of one from faculty and one from administration. Should, after this meeting, the Employer still believe the recommendation is counter to the school’s interest, the matter in question shall be submitted to the presidents of the school and the union who will meet to determine the outcome. Should the two presidents not reach agreement within 120 days, the parties agree to utilize and equally share expenses of the office of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services.
