Memorandums of Agreement
Agreed to by Erin Wright for the College.
This Agreement is entered into by and between MCCC (Union), Bristol Community College (“College”) the parties in full and total resolution of any grievance and/or charge that could have been filed in any forum regarding Title IX training for Adjunct Faculty at Bristol Community College.
The parties agree to the following:
- The College shall reopen the online training upon receipt of an email to erin.wright@bristolcc.edu by the unit member as soon as possible but within thirty days to provide an additional opportunity for such faculty to complete Title IX Training.
- The College shall notify the approximately fifty seven adjunct faculty who received notices of nonreappointment dated March 4, 2019 by email to their College email addresses and by first class mail that they will remain eligible for reappointment contingent upon their completion of the online training as soon as possible but within thirty days as in Attachment A. Once an adjunct faculty completes the online training, they will be considered eligible for appointment and the March 4, 2019 letter will be removed from the unit member’s personnel file. The Parties acknowledge and agree that any course assignments made prior to such time remain in effect.
- The parties agree to meet to bargain the impact of the College required professional development training for adjunct faculty which for 2018-19 covered Title IX training as soon as practicable and prior to the end of Spring Semester, 2019.
- This Agreement shall not constitute a precedent nor shall it be introduced by any party in any forum, except to enforce its terms.
Those adjunct faculty teaching in the Fall 2018 semester will be contacted by MCCC to remind each to complete the Title IX training.
For those adjunct faculty nor teaching in the Fall 2018 semester, 1) the letter of nonreappointment will be pulled from their file and 2) upon any submission of availability form any appointment letter will include the condition that Title IX training required by the College pursuant to Article 13.01 (either the one meeting per session or $40 if an additional meeting) shall occur no later than two weeks prior to class start of the appointment will automatically be revoked.
Memorandum of Understanding
Agreed to by April Bellafiore for The College.
For well over 10 years, and through three different Learning Management Systems (LMSes) the practice at Bristol Community College (BCC) has been to keep course spaces open for both faculty and students until the term is deleted. Terms have typically remained active for 12‐18 months. Once terms are removed from the LMS both students and faculty lose access to the previous course materials.
In Fall 2017 a survey was sent out to all full‐time and adjunct faculty members asking for feedback to a requested change to the length of student access to previous course spaces.
The options were:
- Turn off student access to course spaces at the end of the academic term. If this option is selected, please note that students with incompletes will not be able to access the course nor submit work through the eLearning course space once the semester ends.
- Make the time students have access to course spaces be consistent with college policy regarding the timeline for clearing an incomplete grade regardless of course delivery method. The Incomplete Grade Policy states that students have to “complete and turn in missing work by the last day of class of the semester which follows the semester in which the “I” was received.” As applied to student access to eLearning course spaces this would mean that students would lose access at the end of the subsequent term. For example, students enrolled in Fall 2017 courses would lose access to those courses at the end of the Spring 2018 term.
The majority of respondents stated that BCC should adjust the current practice and disable course spaces for student access after the subsequent term.
- 19.8% Turn off student access to course spaces at the end of the academic term. If this option is selected, please note that students with incompletes will not be able to access the course nor submit work through the eLearning course space once the semester ends.
- 80.2% Make the time students have access to course spaces be consistent with college policy regarding the timeline for clearing an incomplete grade regardless of course delivery method. The Incomplete Grade Policy states that students have to “complete and turn in missing work by the last day of class of the semester which follows the semester in which the “I” was received. As applied to student
Therefore student access to Spring 2017 and Summer 2017 terms will be turned off at the conclusion of the Fall 2017 term (the week of December 24th when we do system maintenance).
Fall 2017 courses will remain accessible to students until the end of the Spring 2018 term.
All subsequent terms will follow the newly established guidelines.
****Faculty will still have access to these previous terms and full course term deletions will continue on our regular schedule.
The MCCC DL Committee agrees to this new practice. Questions can be directed to the committee co‐Chairs or to the Dean of eLearning.
Memorandum of Understanding
Agreed to by April Bellafiore for The College.
On November 12, 2014, the Bristol Community College MCCC Distance Learning (DL) Committee agreed that as of the third offering, fully online eLearning courses will be capped at no more than 25 students for all subsequent offerings dependent upon individual program restrictions.
Memorandum of Understanding
Agreed to by [insert name] for The College.
This agreement is entered into between the Board of Higher Education/Bristol Community College and the Massachusetts Community College Council/MTA/NEA (MCCC) in full resolution of the MCCC Chapter grievance concerning Distance Education filed on, or about, June 11, 2013.
The parties agree as follows:
Faculty members teaching fully online, hybrid, and student option enrollment courses at Bristol Community College are responsible for conducting evaluations within their eLearning course space during the contractually mandated evaluation period and in accordance with the MCCC Distance Learning Agreement and the other applicable collective bargaining agreements. This would be approximately upon 80% of the course completion as scheduled.
Instruction on how to add the evaluation to eLearning course site will be provided to faculty members via an email sent out by the Dean of eLearning two weeks prior to the evaluative period.
In the vent that a faculty member is using an alternative or publisher provided system to teach an online course, they must still use the BCC eLearning system to conduct the course evaluation in accordance with the instructions provided by the Dean of eLearning.
The online student evaluation form will be consistent with the form as it appears in the MCCC/BHE Distance Education Agreement including the functional equivalent of the student signature and date. The process would preclude anyone but the student from completing the form and any student may not complete the form more than once.
Default settings have been added to the evaluation so that it will be available for the full duration of the evaluation period as defined in paragraph one above. Faculty members have the right to change the available dates but the evaluation must be available for a minimum of 48 hours and all evaluations must be completed within the designated period established by the instructor or the default settings if unaltered by the instructor. Faculty members are also responsible for communicating by email the availability of the evaluation to their students and must do so a minimum of 48 hours before the evaluations are available to the students. Although other methods of communication the evaluation availability may also be utilized, accessBCC email will be the primary mechanism faculty members will use for notifying students about the evaluation process.
If evidence is found that would lead the College to reasonably believe that the student evaluation process described herein was not properly implemented, the College may be investigated further the determine if the student evaluation was deployed by the instructor and/or if the students were contacted by the instructor regarding the availability of the student evaluation and/or if an a factor external to the instructor was responsible for the failed implementation.
Memorandum of Understanding
Agreed to by Sarah Garrett for The College.
1. Commencing with the Spring 2010 semester, the Final Exam schedule will more closely reflect the actual teaching schedule for classes. (For example, the basic Final Exam format will allow the scheduling of a final exam at or near the same meeting time and on the same day of the week as the regular class meeting.)
2. Commencing with the Spring 2011 semester, the College agrees to move the Spring Professional Day to the beginning of the week classes start.
3. Commencing with the Spring 2010 semester, the required contractual workload meetings will be reduced from three (3) hours to two (2) hours and will remain on Mondays from 2-4 pm unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties. This reduction in meeting time will not change the negotiated workload computation for college service given the increased preparation and/or proctor time resulting from the change in final exam format. It is acknowledged that the meetings are for 2 hours and whenever it takes place at a different location on campus, 15 additional minutes is agreed upon to accommodate travel between locations.