Many of you have now seen the May 16, 2019 San Francisco Chronicle article that grossly misrepresents the topic of faculty load banking. Last week, Chancellor Rocha responded by calling out the SF Chronicle for their inaccurate reporting and their willful negligence in presenting and the information they collected. While we appreciate our Administration’s attempt to hold The Chronicle accountable, the Chancellor could have gone further to reproach them for publishing payroll information about individual faculty members. We hope that in the future the Chronicle will not engage in this kind of sensationalist reporting that does a disservice to our college.
So what is load-banking anyway?
Our contract calls this “schedule-deviations” (Article 18.J) The administration does not like to think of it as “banking,” but it helps conceptually to think of it that way and so that is the way people refer to it.
Here is how it works:
1. The college keeps track (or at least is supposed to) when a FT faculty member either goes under load or over load in any one semester. The tally is carried over each semester. If the deviation exceeds three (3) units then it needs to be adjusted within the following three (3) semesters wherever possible with the caveat that no one shall be assigned more than three (3) units or its equivalent of extra-load courses in one semester without the employee’s consent.
A faculty member who owes units (or hours) will be assigned sufficient extra load courses without pay until deficiencies are balanced, or, at the option of the faculty member, he/she shall have his/her salary reduced proportionately to balance part or all of the existing deficit.
2. In cases where it is necessary to teach more units than those owed or required to balance the deficit, the faculty member shall have the option of being paid for such additional hours over the deficit, or taking a reduced load within the following three (3) semesters.
3. Full-time faculty members who are granted a high enrollment multiplier for classes may elect to have the additional teaching units credited as regular load or may elect to receive extra pay.
4. Schedule deviations do not apply to categorical employees.
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