You may have noticed a few of the emails coming from Dean Gherardi's office over the past couple of weeks concerning the NORA form -- and you may have wondered, what the heck is a NORA form?
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Good question! And an important one. The NORA is a Notice of Reasonable Assurance. This form is most important for our contingent faculty, who need to let the college know if and when they'll be available to teach classes in the upcoming term. All full-time faculty need to fill out this form too, however, if we'd like to request an overload assignment in the upcoming semesters, including Wintersession (classes held in January), Spring, and Summer I (the first five weeks of classes following the spring semester for traditional, face-to-face classes, and the first eight weeks for fully online classes), Summer II (the second five weeks), and Summer III (you get the picture).
Now that you know what the form is, you may need a reminder about deadlines -- because deadlines are very important. If you want to request a class for Wintersession 2016, you need to submit your NORA form by tomorrow, October 7. As Dean Gherardi pointed out in his emails, assignments will be made by October 15, and you will have until November 6 to accept or decline your assignments.
The deadline to submit an overload request for the spring semester is ALSO October 7. Assignments for the spring, however, will be made by October 22, and you will have until November 9 to accept or decline your assignments through Banner.
It's important that full-time faculty make their decisions about spring overload as soon as possible because it helps our academic chairs find adjunct faculty who can teach the remaining classes in the spring schedule.
But let's say you're already teaching an overload class this semester. You may be wondering, when am I going to get paid for all of this prep and teaching? Well, if you haven't been accessing your online pay stubs (available through MYSCCC, under the Employees tab), and if you haven't been keeping track of your automatic deposits to your bank account, you may not have noticed that we were just paid for overload courses last week, on October 1. The schedule for the rest of the adjunct/overload payments is as follows:
- October 15
- October 29
- November 12
- November 25
- December 10
- December 23
- $1,178 - instructor
- $1,277 - assistant professor
- $1,370 - associate professor
- $1,501 - professor
You can see more about negotiated overload/adjunct pay for the next few years in our Memorandum of Agreement for 2015-2019, available on the FA web site under Documents >> Contracts.
ADDITIONALLY, do you know where else you can find this information? And in particular, the information about overload pay dates? In The Word, the FA's official newsletter. If you're new to the college and/or working in a union shop, one of the best ways to familiarize yourself with the college, its history, and its long, sustainable, beneficial, and most importantly -- positive -- relationship with the union is to read through back issues of The Word (archived on the FA web site) and all of the subsequent MOAs following the 2001 contract (also archived on the web site next to the one I cited above). Both provide a broad perspective, and evidence, of how the union, college, and county work together to provide excellent working conditions and benefits for its classroom and non-classroom faculty, specialists, counselors, librarians, and professional assistants.
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