2024-2027 Collective Bargaining Agreement
7.8 OFFICE HOURS (STUDENT HOURS):
7.8.1 Instructional Type Assignments. For Regular and Contract I, II, and III faculty, all
instructional type assignments require, over and above stated load requirements, five
(5) scheduled office hours per week, scheduled no more than one and one-half (1 ½)
per day, and, one half (1/2) hour per week unscheduled for electronic communications
with students and other work with students outside of class.
7.8.1.1.1 Beginning July 1, 2024, for full-time faculty teaching entirely online, a
minimum of two (2) office hours per week must be scheduled on campus. For faculty
teaching at least one class on campus (either fully on campus or hybrid meeting at
least once per week on campus), a minimum of one (1) office hour per week must be
scheduled on campus.
7.8.1.1.2 For full-time faculty whose total office-hour obligation under 7.8.2 totals less
than two hours per week, a minimum of one (1) office hour per week must be scheduled
on-campus.
7.8.1.1.3 Management may approve remote office-hour schedules for specific
projects (such as when teaching online during sabbaticals).
7.8.1.2 On-campus office hours must be regularly scheduled, posted on office
doors where the faculty member is available to students outside of class either in the
faculty member’s office, hub or student center, or in any common area on campus. For
faculty teaching at off-campus locations (such as on high school campuses or in a
study-abroad program, etc.), office hours held at these remote sites will be considered
“on campus.”
7.8.2 Instructional/Non-Instructional Type Assignments. When a faculty member’s load is
split between instructional and non-instructional duties, office hours are required
proportional to the instructional assignment.
7.8.3 Non-Instructional Type Assignments. Members are not required to conduct office
hours over and above stated load.
7.8.4 Part-Time (Temporary). All part-time faculty shall hold regularly scheduled office hours
in proportion to their teaching assignment as follows: one office hour per week for every
20% load, rounded to the nearest half hour, up to a maximum of five office hours.
Where a part-time faculty member’s load results in an office-hour obligation exactly
between two half hours, the member should round up. Faculty teaching online courses
may, at their option, hold scheduled office hours online in the same ration as their online
courses are to their total semester load. In addition, 7.8.2 and all provisions of 7.8.5
apply to part-time as well as full-time faculty.
7.8.5 Other Scheduling.
7.8.5.1 Office hours are to be scheduled in the same manner that load is
scheduled, with the understanding that office hours are designed to benefit
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and assist students and that arbitrary rearrangement of hours to
accomplish other objectives is not desirable.
7.8.5.2 Variations. The President or designee may authorize a variation of office
hour requirements provided such variation is approved and submitted by
the Department, Division Chair and Dean in which the assignment is
involved.
7.8.5.3 Online Office Hours; An online office hour must be a regularly scheduled
hour, posted along with on-campus office hours, during which the faculty
member is available online for synchronous communication to consult with
and respond to students. Each faculty member will turn in a schedule of
office hours to be posted electronically and on campus prior to the
beginning of each class. Part-time faculty members must have and use a
District email address to designate an office hour (or half hour) as online.