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Yearly CODAA dues for 2006-07 are $190: IEA-$114; NEA-$41.75; CODAA Local-$34.25. (Fair share NEA dues which eliminate a $20 IPACE contribution are $94.) Dues are automatically deducted on a pro-rated basis over the course of the academic year. According to our contract, CODAA membership is automatic after eligibility is met.

Adjunct faculty are considered Active Professional Quarter-Time Members and as such, pay about 75% less in dues than full-time faculty.

If you are hesitating to become a bargaining unit member of CODAA because of the $20 IPACE contribution , please know that a refund may be obtained through our local Uniserv officer but this must be done by November 30th of this year. Refund forms are also available from the Government Relations Department in Springfield. Questions? Contact Vicki-Root Wajda at ext. . 51029, or at

Any COD faculty who do not meet eligibility requirements can also be a CODAA member; dues are $35. Ineligible PT can also join the IEA, but will not be unit members until eligibility of 3 continuous academic years of teaching 12 credit hours or more has been achieved.

Thanks to Vicki Root-Wajda and Diane Rzeszewski who attended the IEA's Adjunct Faculty Membership Processing Training in Chicago on August 18. As you can imagine, keeping track of our membership is a huge job.

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President	Peter Consolazio	(630) 682-1764
Vice-President	Suzanne Vondruska	ext. 52353
Secretary	Bill Terrell	ext 53175
Treasurer	Diane Rzeszewski	ext. 54089
Newsletter Editor	Sue Dreghorn	ext. 51214
Webmaster	Oleh Sydor

Grievance & IEA/NEA Higher Ed. Representative:	Joanne Barsanti
Membership:	Vicki Root-Wajda
Legislation:	Peter Potamianos
COD Board Rep:	Vicki Root-Wajda

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Original plans called for taking down the walls between 2070 and 2074 and relocating the offices, but the money for this just was not there. The total cost of what has been accomplished so far is about $49,000. However, according to the college's Facility Master Plan, when the IC building is completely remodeled, sometime between 2010 and 1012, a much larger and even more improved Part Time Faculty Center is planned.

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• Rosemarie Butkus - PTAP
• Joyce Daley - Speech
• Terry Hogan - Sociology & Political Science
• Allison Ittersagen - PE
• Donald Jacobson - History
• Jim Nechleba - CIT
• Karl Schulze - Meteorology
• Dan Trutter - Fine & Applied Arts

Steven Havens-Music, also CODAA. was named the first recipient of the Outstanding PT Faculty Member of the Year. As reported in our May 2006 newsletter, ("Havens & Frank Receive First College-Wide Outstanding Part-Time Award,"), this new award is a parallel to the FT Faculty Award in that faculty considered are first nominated by students.

Also honored for their years of service were these CODAA members:

• 30 years- Judith Leppert, Mary McMahon, James Mizener, Bruce Norstrom
• 25 years- Carolyn Leeb, Cheryl Martin, Gloria Olsen, Brain Pepich
• 20 years- William Albanos, Robert Fultz, Gail Lewicki, Brian Light, Dan McCollum, Ursula Prodans, O'Ann Steere, Valerie Ulett, Diana Windt
• 15 years- Matthew Allen, Joseph Baumgartner, Anjali Bhattacharyya, Ron Carlson, David Cella, Mary Cicchetti, Jane DiGiovanni, Duane Everhart, Mary Fontecchio, Ronald Galiardo, Michael Gurgone, Lou Ann Hoffman, Charles Huettner, Carol Kropp, Zhi-Ying Liu, Nancy McCanless, Sandra Morris, JoAnn Prell, Jill Runke, Eric Semelroth, John Spaletto, Ibtisam Tartir
• 10 years-Susan Ahern, Richard Armandi, Constantine Bapes, Ann Blaas, Judith Breen, John Calimee, Constance Carey, John Cirn, David Duffy, Michael Eldridge, Olfat El-Mallakh, Kathleen Keilty, Miland Lowry, Mark Maller, Barbara Meyer, Robert R. Oswald, Cynthia Rice, John Richy, Donna Rocha, Stephanie Rusnak, Gary Schirmer, Donald Slawinski, Louis Vavaroutsos, Mohammad Zughoul
• 5 years- Nicoleta Apostol, Catherine Aravosis, Sarwar Azam, Juan Barrera, William Bell, Robert Bollendorf, Sharon Bradwish-Miller, Darrell Brooks, James Byrne, Allan Carter, Ching-Loh Cheung, Allen Costell, Kimberle Crosby, Kimberly Curia, Joyce Daley, Jean Diehl, Mary Eggert, Jeffrey Fisher, Alice Giordano, Barbara Green, Michael Haddad, Joann Harling, Thomas Hiestand, David Hubbard, Donald Jacobson, Arlene Kaiser, Gloria Kas, William Leppert, Laura Lewis-Barr, Paul Loth, Anne Malone, Mark McKim, Jane Newman, Oza Balkrishna, Nicholas Page, Julie Parker, Jason Petronzio, Kendra Ross, Judith Ryan, Karl Schulze, Mariette Siczewicz, Christopher Sikora, Patricia Somers, Seema Srivastava, Sarah Starnes, Daniel Steele, Kelly Stokes, Craig Tichelar, Zvonimir Tot, Carol Trotter, Kimberly Turner, Fran Ucci, Suzanne Vondruska, Charles Weusel, Diondra Whiteside, Deborah Wilke, Marie Wuchich

Pat Somers, PT-Psychology, attended the International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology on the Isle of Spetses in Greece this summer, July 11-15. The trip was made possible by the award Pat won from COD's Multicultural Professional Develop-ment Committee last November.

Contact Joe Mullin, Chair of the MPDC, or Zinta Conrad, Coordinator of International Education for more information about these awards and the application process.

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Congratulations all !

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• Immigration: Work with state affiliates to assure that any immigration process will protect the rights of all students and provide a safe learning environment and protect the rights of learning professionals to perform their duties without regard to the national origin of the students.
• Academic Freedom: Alert members through regular publications and the internet about threats to academic freedom in recent federal and state regulations preventing educators from teaching and conducting research in so-called "terrorist states." [See also "Academic Freedom Dodges A Bullet," NEA Higher Education Advocate, August 2006, p. 3.]
• Social Reform: Work with state affiliates to invigorate local economies by encouraging vocational schools and higher ed. institutions to provide information to potential students.

Also adopted were specific recommendations for health care (e.g., a national NEA health insurance pool); retirement, and political reform. According to the IEA/NEA Advocate, this was the NEA's 144th Annual Meeting and the 85th Representative Assembly.

The RA is the highest decision-making body of the NEA; with 9,000 delegates, it is also the world's largest democratic deliberative body. (Summer 2006, p. 7). Joanne was elected to attend the meeting at our membership meeting in March 2006. Thank you, Joanne !

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Guests were Ken Swanson, IEA President; Victor Scotti, IEA Regional Director, Lombard office; and Meredith Byers, IEA Higher Ed Coordinator. About 20 PT leaders from Roosevelt, Columbia, Harper, Triton, Prairie State, and COD were in attendance. Meetings will be held every other month.

Chris Goergen, COD Faculty Senate President, was the only FT person present at the meeting. Oakton sent no representatives, full or part-time.

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The college has joined a lawsuit to protest this new requirement which impinges on local board control. (See "Ethics Edict Has Colleges Considering Legal Action," in Media Watch). However, until the suit is filed and the ruling overturned, employees must comply in order to remain eligible for employment.

If you have not completed the Preventing Sexual Harrassment training, go to the college's link at http://training.newmedialearning.com/psh/dupage/index.htm.

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The purpose of the committee is to solicit, gather, and make suggestions for in-service day activities that are relevant to all college employees and consistent with the mission and goals of COD. The committee will coordinate with the TLC to plan and organize these activities.

Unlike FT Faculty, PT Faculty are not required to attend in-service days. However, in many instances, some of the activities are very relevant to what PT Faculty do in the classroom, e.g. department programs from which PT faculty have typically been excluded.

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"Suit Accuses City College of Age Bias in Hiring," Chicago Tribune, 8/12/06. After failing again to be hired FT in 2004, Rosemarie Crane, PT-English instructor at Wright Community College, filed a complaint with the EEOC. After failing to reach a voluntary agreement with Wright, "the agency filed a federal lawsuit on her behalf." Crane, 69, has taught at Wright for 11 years and is the only PT Instructor to ever receive the college's Teaching Excellence Award. She was told by a former department head that she "would have been hired, but it was (her) age" that prevented her from even getting an interview in 2004. The lawsuit is asking the college to appoint her FT tenure track and pay her back wages. She is still teaching PT at Wright this fall.

"A Bigger Piece of the Pie: California's 80% Law," Adjunct Advocate, July/ August 2006. Mike Kielkopf discusses a current proposed California state law (SRB 847) that would allow PT faculty to teach 80% of FT load per school instead of the current 60% per district. Whereas the 80% would increase PT salaries -- PT now make 1/3 of what FT earn with no benefits -- and allow them to earn all of their salary on one campus, opponents of the bill just see this as one more way administrators can exploit PT labor. Michael Ward, PT-History at Ventura College and president of the PT Faculty United AFT Local 6262 at College of the Canyons "predicts that allowing part-timers to work 80 percent at a single school would only feed into the desire of administrators to cut labor costs and weaken the strength of faculty overall, and of faculty unions."

[Editor's note: PT faculty at COD have been allowed to work 80% of FT hours at COD since Fall 2005. The FT faculty objected and asked for a FARB (Faculty Administrative Review Board) ruling last spring, claiming that Board Policy limits PT instruction to 66% of FT load. The FARB ruling agrees with the FT position which argues, among other things, that PT are "exempt" (i.e., hourly) workers who must be compensated for overtime. The 80% was instituted last fall to allow PT staffing of non-classroom areas, e.g., Math, Writing, Speech, and Reading as well as to allow more credit hours for PT instructors, a definite economic plus for instructors and the college, but admittedly exploitation of PT labor.

Board Policy 4456 reads, in part, that the "part-time assignment for individuals will be based on equivalent hours determined by the appropriate Vice President, and limited to 2/3 of a normal working load.

Last August, Chris Picard, VP-Academic Affairs, with approval from Dr. Chand, determined (based on established practice) that a PT work week was 40 hours from which the 80% (160% per academic year) was derived. FT counter that because they are salaried, they do not work hourly rates despite the 35 contact hour limit being a very real part of the FT contract. Dr. Chand will make the final decision. ]

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