From: Fred van Hartesveldt, Faculty Association President
To: Full-time Faculty

"For each six hours of longevity training credit you take within the time allowed (see the attached contract provisions), you receive $1,615 for 2005-06, $1,664 for 2006-07, and additional yearly earnings for the rest of your GRCC employment. You may also receive tuition reimbursement. This means that it makes more financial sense to take a class, for which you earn money for years, than to teach an extra class, for which you earn money for only a semester.

Submit the following forms, all attached, to Jim Fox in Human Resources:

1. Course Approval Application: submit this form ten days before beginning the course. You need this form for MA+ credits and for tuition reimbursement, but you don't need it for longevity training without tuition reimbursement. You should receive approval for graduate courses, undergraduate courses, continuing education units, and for various other non-credit activities as outlined in Article 7.D.2 of the contract. If you're seeking longevity training pay for non-credit work, your dean needs to evaluate the nature and amount of the work. Normally, 80 hours of appropriate work experience will equate to one semester credit. I know of no form for this evaluation, so I recommend that you and your dean reduce it to writing.

2. Tuition Reimbursement Form: submit this form after successfully completing the course. I recommend that you submit this form as soon as you get your grade and that you attach copies of the grade and paid tuition receipt. There are limits of four credit hours per semester and eight credit hours per fiscal year.

3. Faculty Advanced Degree/Longevity Training Request: to be paid beginning in the winter semester submit this form by February 16, to be paid beginning in the summer semester submit by June 15, and to be paid beginning in the fall semester submit by September 30.

You should keep copies to document all of your work qualifying you for longevity training credit and copies of the attached forms after you complete them."

"For longevity training there are windows of time during which you have to earn each credit.  Those windows are in our contract at Article 7.D.2 which you can access at http://www.grccfaculty.com/finalcontract.htm

In addition to the time limit for earning the credit, there's also a contractual time limit for submitting the request and supporting documentation.  Those time limits are at Article 7.G.  Submitting late requests doesn't prevent future payment for work that qualifies, but does shut out retroactive pay.

You can (and should) look compare the dates of the work you've done to the contract and to the number of your service years, and from that you can get an idea of whether any particular work qualifies for longevity training credit and is within these time limits."

Updated on 24-SEP-06
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