67 Percent Rule

 

Agenda and Minutes

 

ED Code section information related to the amount an adjunct can teach each semester

Section 87482 of the Education Code
(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 87480, the governing board of a community college district
may employ any qualified individual as a temporary faculty member for a complete school year,
but not less than a complete semester or quarter during a school year. The employment of
those persons shall be based upon the need for additional faculty during a particular semester
or quarter because of the higher enrollment of students during that semester or quarter as
compared to the other semester or quarter in the academic year, or because a faculty member
has been granted leave for a semester, quarter, or year, or is experiencing long-term illness,
and shall be limited, in number of persons so employed, to that need, as determined by the
governing board of the community college district.

(2) Employment of a person under this subdivision may be pursuant to contract fixing a salary
for the entire semester or quarter.

(b) A person, other than a person serving as clinical nursing faculty and exempted from this
subdivision pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c), shall not be employed by any one
district under this section for more than two semesters or three quarters within any period of
three consecutive years.

(c) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a person serving as full-time clinical nursing faculty or as
part-time clinical nursing faculty teaching the hours per week described in Section 87482.5 may
be employed by any one community college district under this section for up to four semesters
or six quarters.

87482.5 of the Education Code
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who is employed to teach adult or community
college classes for not more than 67 percent of the hours per week considered a full-time
assignment for regular employees having comparable duties shall be classified as a temporary
employee, and shall not become a contract employee under Section 87604 . If the provisions
of this section are in conflict with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement in effect on or
before January 1, 2009, the provisions of this section shall govern the employees subject to that
agreement upon the expiration of the agreement.

(b) Service as a substitute on a day-to-day basis by persons employed under this section shall
not be used for purposes of calculating eligibility for contract or regular status.

(c)(1) Service in professional ancillary activities by persons employed under this section,
including, but not necessarily limited to, governance, staff development, grant writing, and
advising student organizations, shall not be used for purposes of calculating eligibility for
contract or regular status unless otherwise provided for in a collective bargaining agreement
applicable to a person employed under this section.

(2) This subdivision may not be construed to affect the requirements of subdivision (d) of
Section 84362 .