Association of Adjunct Faculty of Macomb Community College

ATTENTION MCC ADJUNCT FACULTY:

Webadvisor is now capable of receiving your availability declarations for the Spring/Summer and Fall 2016 Terms.  According to Section 4 of the AAFMCC Contract all adjuncts must declare their availability to teach for BOTH the Spring/Summer and Fall 2016 Terms via Webadvisor by the third Monday in March (21st).  The directions for accessing the “Adjunct Availability” page on Webadvisor have been pasted below.  

As always we encourage adjuncts to make themselves as available as possible (days, times and campuses) to help insure employment.  Please note that adjuncts

In order to increase visibility of adjunct instructors on campus and to highlight the important contribution adjuncts make to Macomb Community College’s educational community, the Association of Adjunct Faculty of Macomb Community College announces our first ever “Adjunct Awareness Week” to be held February 29 through March 6, 2016.

During Adjunct Awareness Week, we encourage you to join in solidarity with your colleagues by doing the following:

•  Wear an “A is for Adjunct” sticker during class and around campus.Stickers will be distributed to adjunct mailboxes during the week of February 22

Proposal

Macomb Community College’s President, Board of Trustees, and administrators should expand the college’s full-time Tuition Reimbursement Program by extending the benefit to part-time employees, thereby allowing them to be reimbursed for coursework completed while pursuing higher education opportunities not available at Macomb Community College, and by increasing the size of the fund available for reimbursements. 

We believe that achieving parity between full-time and part-time employees regarding this benefit is an important step in building and maintaining a professional educational

Routinely getting classes or having your schedule or textbook changed hours before a class started, and often after you’d made commitments to other jobs; sweetheart deals; inconsistent raise, peer review and administrative policies; lack of grievance procedures; working in fear that you had no other protection for your position than the good graces of your superiors and all the while whispering with colleagues in dark corners that there had to be a better way.

Sound familiar? In 2002 two adjuncts decided on the only course of action that better way could take. Their names were John Bousamra

As the winter 2016 term gets underway we in the union leadership wanted to take a moment to welcome you all back and bring you up to date on a few union matters.

[1] Changes in Union Dues Rate
We are happy to announce a reduction in the dues rate for members from 1.8%-1.75%.  The fee payer rate will remain at 1.6%.

[2] AAFMCC Winter GMM
We are planning to hold a General Membership Meeting in late Winter or early Spring.  Please check your MCC e-mail for details.

[3] SS and Fall’16 Availability Reminder
According to the AAFMCC Contract adjuncts must indicate their availability to teach for the Spring

Attention AAFMCC Members:

The 2016 Election of AAFMCC Officers is being held this Term.  According to Article VII, Section C of the AAFMCC Constitution (available at www.aafmcc.org) all nominations must be postmarked no later than the second Monday in February (February 8, 2016).  An official nominations form is attached.  Nominations are accepted by U.S. Mail only (no e-mails or electronic copies).  Once the nomination is received the nominees’ name(s) will be verified by the elections committee.   Verification requires that the nominees must be full members of the AAFMCC, be on the current