SMC Faculty Contributions During COVID/Remote Delivery of Services

Losses

  • Loss of over 100 part-time faculty colleagues - a 10% slashing of positions

  • 50 fewer full-time faculty than had been planned for Fall 2020 (15% reduction)

    • 17 hiring searches stopped

    • 28 FT faculty retired

    • 5 FT faculty moved into management positions

  • Loss of 1.5% pay raise when the District requested to re-open the 2020-21 salary article

  • Some disciplines have had drastic reductions in offerings reducing loads for many part-time faculty members

  • Some full-time faculty do not have full-loads and will have to make it up with overloads in future sessions

Additional Workload

  • Provided a seamless continuation of services when confronted with abrupt move to remote delivery of services in Spring 2020

  • Developed curriculum for online delivery for over 700 courses never before taught remotely

  • Coordinated and submitted information regarding students wanting to apply for COVID19 relief funds and for additional equipment such as computers

  • Converted to an entirely new student early alert system, Starfish/GPS, to coordinate counseling and instructional support

  • Converted to an entirely new college website just weeks before Fall semester started

  • Purchased essential equipment, software and internet access to enable remote instruction and student support services to continue

  • Providing ongoing support and guidance for colleagues with less online experience

  • Spending hours preparing Canvas shells, creating or researching to find appropriate web-accessible materials, creating and captioning video

  • Providing extended and extra office hours to support students’ increased needs in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains

  • Spending hours providing extended proctoring time for students not able to be served by the Proctoring Center

All this has occurred while dealing with a raging global pandemic, enforced isolation, and widespread societal upheaval. We're proud of the efforts and sacrifices faculty members have made to keep SMC afloat.