The PA Contract

Article 6: Professional Obligation

6.1

The professional obligation of a fiscal-year employee shall begin on the first day of the fiscal year of the College or on the effective date of appointment, whichever is later, and continue to the last day of the fiscal year. Except as provided in 6.3, the professional obligation of an academic year employee shall begin one (1) week prior to the first day of instruction in the day classes of the fall semester or the effective date of appointment, whichever is later, on which day he/she shall report for service, unless otherwise directed by the College, and continue until May Commencement.

6.2

Employees will be available at such times scheduled or required to satisfactorily complete their professional obligation. Such availability will normally be on campus except by arrangement with the appropriate College Administrator. The professional obligations and duties will include, but not be limited to, attending all meetings scheduled by the appropriate College Administrative Officer or College Administrator; all meetings of committees to which they have been appointed or elected; providing academic advisement; instructional advisement; attending all meetings called by the President; and attending either the December or May Commencement at the option of the College.

6.3

The professional obligation for academic year employees may, at the discretion of the College, be extended for one additional week.

6.4

Non-teaching faculty will be provided with a job description for their position. Excepting Librarians and such other classifications of employees as have heretofore been otherwise scheduled, the normal schedule for non-teaching faculty shall be on-campus availability Monday through Friday for seven hours each day, exclusive of meal periods, unless on vacation (fiscal-year obligation only) as approved by the appropriate College Administrator. The normal schedule for Librarians and such other classifications, as herein above mentioned , shall be on-campus availability five (5) days per week, seven (7) hours each day, exclusive of meal periods, unless on vacation (fiscal- year obligation only) as approved by the appropriate College Administrator.

Counselors shall be assignable between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. for seven (7) consecutive hours each day, exclusive of meal periods, Monday through Friday.

A. Unit members may be assigned to fulfill their professional obligation at the Utica campus, the Rome campus, or off-campus sites. Through January 13, 2003, those unit members who are assigned to fulfill their professional obligation (excluding overload) at both the Rome and the Utica Campuses on the same day and who use their own motor vehicles for transportation shall be reimbursed therefore at $11.40 per trip.

B. Unit members may be assigned to fulfill their professional obligation at the Utica campus, the Rome campus, or off-campus sites. Effective January 14, 2003, those unit members who have professional obligations (excluding overload) at more than one site on the same day and who use their own motor vehicles for transportation shall be reimbursed at the federal mileage rate for travel between work sites. For purposes of this Agreement, travel one way between the Utica and Rome campuses is 20 miles.

C. Through January 13, 2003, if and when the College shall hereafter establish off-campus sites at which unit members may be assigned to fulfill their professional obligation, those unit members so assigned who use their own motor vehicles for transportation shall be reimbursed therefor at the then Oneida County mileage reimbursement rate for travel between work sites.

D. Effective January 14, 2003, those unit members assigned to fulfill their professional obligation (excluding overload) at an off-campus site located 10 miles in excess of the distance normally traveled by the unit member to the on-campus site to which the unit member is primarily assigned as determined by the College and who use their own vehicles for transportation will be reimbursed at the federal mileage rate for travel for the excess distance. For the purposes of this Agreement these distances will be determined by a mutually agreed upon online driving distance calculation web-site.

E. Assignments to the off-campus sites located at prisons or correctional facilities shall be subject to the following conditions:

1. Employees hired beginning with the 1989-90 year may be assigned to off-campus sites located at prisons and/or correctional facilities. Assignment to off-campus sites located at prisons and/or correctional facilities is voluntary for all employees hired before the 1989-90 year.

2. Participants in the program will be provided a full orientation.

F. Through January 13, 2003 , those unit members heretofore receiving mileage reimbursement shall continue to do so per past practice.

6.6 Collegial and Public Service Activity.

A. Before a bargaining unit member agrees to involvement in a collegial or public service activity, the unit member and the appropriate College administrator may discuss adjustments in the unit member's work schedule to accommodate time spent beyond the normal work schedule per 6.4.

 

B. Failure to accept involvement in a specific collegial or public service activity shall not be used in a bargaining unit member's evaluation nor shall it become part of a promotion recommendation.

C. The College retains all rights to consider and comment on collegial and public service involvement as provided in 7.1.A and 4.6.A.4.

6.7 Advisement.

During the term of the agreement the parties shall establish a Joint Committee to study and make recommendations regarding the scheduling of and compensation for advisement. Such recommendations, if mutually acceptable to the parties to this agreement, may be implemented at any time.