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Office of the Vice Chancellor for Faculty and Staff Relations

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MEMORANDUM

September 18, 1986 /
TO: The Labor Designees ad
The Personnel Officers a, ae

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FROM: Nick Schunke
Ken Deedy

SUBJECT: Adjunct Health Benefit (Article 26.5) - Revised

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Attached are a series of revised questions and answers prepared
by the Office of Faculty and Staff Relations regarding the
implementation of the adjunct health benefit. These questions
and answers reflect the revisions of the qualifying requirements.
The new language of the Agreement appears on the next page.

The material is designed to establish precise criteria for
eligibility for participation in the programs, establish standard
benefit periods, and clarify the meaning of the terms used in
section 26.5 of the Agreement, which creates the adjunct health
benefit.

Please let me know if additional questions arise concerning the
interpretation of section 26.5 of the peat or the method of
implementation of the provision.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: STX SEMESTER ADJUNCT SERVICE REQUIREMENT

The term of the Agreement follows:

26.5 The University and the PSC agree to provide a health
benefit,,. effective February 1, 1986, for qualified adjuncts
through the establishment of a welfare fund benefit. The
benefit shall be available only to those adjuncts who are
teaching;sax or more hours (or the equivalent) in the
semester and who have taught one or more courses at the same
college for “six consecutive semesters (not including Summer
Sessions) and who are not covered by other health
care insurance provided by or through anothet Ource.

An adjunct who has established eligibility for this health
benefit shall lose eligibility if in any two out of three
academic years the ocjunct teaches in only one_ semester Of —
the: year at that colle

Please note that a distinction exists between the establishment
of a qualifying period to gain eligibility for the benefit ("one
or more courses at the same college for“Six consecutive
semesters") and the entitlement to actually receive the benefit
("teaching six or more hours (or the equivalent"), and "not
covered by other primary health care insurance...").

ae Q. What is meant by the term "adjunct" in section 26.5 of
the Agreement?

A. An “adjunct” is any person in the titles adjunct _
lecturer, adjunct assistant professor, adjunct associate

professor, or adjunct “professor, who is paid from a tax-levy
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2% Q. What is meant by the term "course" in section 26.5 of
the Agreement?

A. A "course" is an academic offering that is credit-
bearing (or, in the case of courses defined as "remedial,
offered as a part of the department's approved academic
program to degree students).

Si The following three questions concern service in the same
college in capacities other than "adjunct". If the service
is at the same college and the duties performed are
comparable to those performed by members of the
instructional staff, then the non-adjunct service will be
bridged. Questions specifically covering three types of
service follow:



3A.

3B.

3c.

Q. When an adjunct interrupts service to serve in the same
college for a semester or longer as a graduate fellow A or B
or as a full-time substitute or in another position on the
full-time instructional staff, how should the period of
service be counted toward the six (6) semester service
requirement?

A. If the full-time or substitute service is at the same
college, then the graduate fellow, full-time or substitute
service should be bridged. Qualifying service rendered ~
prior to the graduate fellow, full-time or substitute
service should be added to qualifying service rendered
subsequent to graduate fellow, full-time or substitute
service in determining eligibility.

Q. When an adjunct interrupts service to serve for a
semester in a position funded from a non-tax levy source,
how should the period of service funded by the non-tax levy
source be counted towards the six (6) semester requirement?

A. If the non-tax levy service is at the same college as
the tax-levy service and the duties performed are
professional duties, the non-tax levy service should be
bridged. Qualifying service rendered prior to the non-tax
levy service should be added to qualifying service rendered
subsequent to non-tax levy service in determining
eligibility for the health benefit.

Q. If an adjunct serves for a semester as a_non-teaching _
adjunct (60% rate) shall that service count, be bridged, or

" break service toward the six (6) semester requirement?

A. If the service as a non-teaching adjunct is at the same
college, the non-teaching adjunct service should be bridged.
Qualifying service rendered prior to the non-teaching
adjunct service should be added to qualifying service
rendered subsequent to non-teaching adjunct service in
determining eligibility for the health benefit.

Q. If an adjunct serves for a semester as a continuing
education teacher, or in an EOC, or at another college, how
shall that service be treated?

A. Such service shall break the service required to
establish eligibility for the health benefit because such
service is not in the same College. Such service performed
at the same college would bridge service.

Q. If an adjunct serves for a semester in a title on the
hon-instructional staff, how shall that service be treated?

A. Such service shall break th Vice required ‘to

establish eligibility for the health benefit.


Vecisisrass Community College - Questions

8A. Q. At LaGuardia Community College, how shall the fall,
winter, and spring quarters each be counted toward
fulfilling the six Ley semester requirement?
A. The fall, winter, and spring Quarters, but not the
summer quarter, shall each be eligible to be counted as a
semester toward fulfilling the ;"six (6)) semester"

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requirement. However, an adjunct may not accumulate more
than two "semesters" credit during an academic year. If an
adjunct serves for fewer than two quarters during an
academic year, service shall be broken.

8B. Q. Over what period shall health coverage be provided at
LaGuardia Community College?

A. An adjunct who teaches six (6) or more hours in two out
of the three quarters (fall, winter, spring), or who teaches
six (6) or more hours in the spring quarter, shall have
coverage provided during the months of July and August
provided the adjunct has not received a notice of non-
reappointment for the succeeding fall term.

An adjunct who teaches six (6) hours or more in the fall
term and six (6) or more hours in the winter term shall have
coverage for the spring term.

, | An adjunct who teaches six (6) hours or more in the winter
term and six (6) or more hours in the spring term shall have
coverage for the succeeding fall term.

8C. Q. Under what circumstances will an adjunct at LaGuardia
Community College lose eligibility?

A. An adjunct at LaGuardia Community College will lose

eligibility if in any three academic year period the adjunct
teaches fewer than 7 quarters (fall, winter and spring).

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