This is a list of proposed revisions to the math department scheduling policy.

This list was started at the Math department meeting on 2008 02-27.

Voting on these proposals has not been scheduled, as of Feb. 27, 2008.

The philosophy section will be written at the department meeting on 04-23-2008.

Adjunct staffing philosophy

Written at the department meeting on 04-23-2008

Continued on 04-30-2008.

Principles (unordered):

1. minimize the number of unstaffed sections
2. give priority to faculty with professional development , especially local, course-specific professional development. Or, include lots of types or professional development.
3. staff according to adjucnt's preferences
4. staff accorting to the adjunct rotation
5. give priority to faculty with good evaluations
6. flexible guidelines and staffing committee, versus scheduling by inflexible, impartial rules [straw vote indicated second option was unpopular]?
7. upper limits on load variance in a given semester 
8. student success rates, calculated as (A+B+C+CR)/(first day enrollment)
9. shows active working towards students attaining SLO's, especially in DE where the SLO's are well-defined
10. Lower priority to faculty with student complaints against them.
11. Part-time rehire rights.
12. Look at the English department's guidelines for more ideas.
13. Priority given to faculty who have missed the fewest lab hours (get a punch clock for the lab). [idea submitted by Erich, 5-14-08]

Department straw vote on 04-30-2008 indicated overwhelming support for flexible guidelines.

Bumping

• If professor drops a class after he/she has been scheduled for it, the scheduling committee will endeavor to respect the usual priority system (e.g. the Math staffing history and the Math adjunct scheduling rotation and the Summer full-time rotation) with as little disruption to other facutly's schedules as possible .
• If a professor has to drop a class because the days/times of the class are changed after it has been staffed, everyone will be notified
  • The person affected will be asked if they wish to change
  • If they are, great!
  • If not,
    • The department chair will take time and energy into considereation and
      • If time is crucial, the chair will make a decision
      • If time is not crucial, the department will decide what should happen
• The scheduling committee will use discretion for staffing classes that become available after the normal staffing process. Any such staffing will be done with fairness in mind, and in a way that seeks to minimize the number of "switches" that must take place. [current policy: 2.4.C, as of Feb 27, 2008.]

Special Programs

Tue, A'kilah, Jennifer, Erich, and Julie will work on writing the following brainstorming as proposed policy.

• If an adjunct is asked by management or the department and is approved by the department to teach a closed, partially closed and/or specially funded section (viz. East Bay Career Advancement Academy, First Five, Pathways, Project ExCEL, Umoja Scholars Program, Cohorts - Connencting Consecutive Curriculum Pilot, Honors, and AVID), then the adjunct will be placed in that section when full-time faculty course scheduling occurs. The department's descision will be based on the following, but not excluded to, criteria
  • The faculty selected must adhere to the department's program goals (attending relevent professional development)
  • The curricula must adhere to our program goals (use of recommended texts, SLOs)
  • The faculty and course will be evaluated every semester (approval does not dictate certainty)
• There is concern that the person selected does not follow our family values.
• Who teaches it is ok as long as it doesn't rub us the wrong way
• But the teacher MUST adhere to our family values
• We need to zero in on what we want done
• The program inserts their OWN curriculum, which undermines what we're trying to do.
• If the department is offering a section in a special program (viz. East Bay Career Advancement Academy, First Five, Pathways, Project ExCEL, Umoja Scholars Program, Cohorts - Connencting Consecutive Curriculum Pilot, Honors, and AVID), then faculty selected by the coordinator of the program shall be considered by the department for preference over the usual rotation or staffing history, with the understanding that ...
• We also need to reassess our inclusion of these courses as enrollment/retention/peristence facts come in..
• Every semester, we need to re-OK the seleted faculty for the position. 
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Upper limits on load and extra lab hours

Overworked faculty may not be effective in the classroom and may have difficulty providing frequent feedback to their students. So in order to maintain program quality:

• The scheduling shall not schedule any professor (full-time or adjunct) for more than 150% load in any Fall or Spring semester.
• The scheduling shall not schedule any professor (full-time or adjunct) for more than 50% load in any Summer semester.
• When the scheduling committee creates packages for adjunct faculty, all Math 25 sections not otherwise packaged shall be packaged with two extra lab hours.
• No faculty member shall be assigned more than four extra lab hours per semester.