Text of Memorandum:
BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
It is mutually agreed by and between Bergen Community College and the Bergen Community College Faculty Association that faculty members approved for compensation for assessment activities related to student learning will be paid at their respective overload rates. Approval shall be the responsibility of the Academic Vice President after consultation with the Coordinator of the Center for Institutional Effectiveness and the Dean of the area. Said rates will be applied to those individuals receiving less than three (3) contact hours. Those individuals receiving three (3) or more contact hours may elect to receive release time or compensation, or some combination thereof, at their overload rates.
It is further understood that the compensation for release time is for administrative (non-teaching) work on a two for one basis (i.e., two hours of work for each contact hour received), and that release time will generally be granted only on an overload basis.
Contact hour compensation will be authorized if, after review of a faculty member’s scope of involvement in the assessment project, it is determined that the number of hours needed to accomplish the project warrants overload compensation on a release time or payment basis.
Faculty members, other than those appointed to be department liaisons to the Center for Institutional Effectiveness, can provide four hours of work per semester on activities related to programmatic assessment of student learning as part of their job responsibilities. If a faculty member devotes any amount of time beyond four hours, that faculty member will be compensated for the fourth (4th) hour plus any additional hours beyond the four as overload compensation on a release time or payment basis.
This agreement shall be implemented for the Spring 2006 semester and shall remain in effect unless a new understanding is reached in the future.
This memorandum shall be without prejudice to either party and shall not constitute a precedent.
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