HB 1452 - DIGEST

Requires each community and technical college to develop a new senior faculty position for nontenure track, part-time professors to be officially called associate faculty.

Declares that nontenure track faculty are eligible for associate faculty status after having taught for nine quarters.

Requires that, at a minimum, associate faculty shall have the following privileges conferred on them as a result of their seniority: (1) The right of first refusal on available departmental courses up to the equivalent of a full-time teaching load each year for fall, winter, and spring quarters;

(2) The right to bump other nontenure track faculty in the event the associate faculty member's course is canceled;

(3) The right to be paid thirty-three percent of their contract by the college in the event there is no one with less seniority to bump and the associate faculty member's class is canceled;

(4) Their names and qualifications appearing in the college's biennial catalogs;

(5) The right to receive annual contracts with the equivalent of full-time teaching loads; and

(6) Annual contracts presumed to be automatically renewable.