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The MCCC and the presidents have reached a tentative agreement on the DCE contract. Each campus has received a copy of the tentative agreement and will notify the membership where copies will be available for their perusal.

Salary

	Effective January, 1996 2.5%
	Beginning the first summer session 1996, all unit members will be integrated onto the following steps (No unit member's salary can be decreased on integration.) Step 1 $584 per credit Step 2 626 Step 3 667
	Effective January, 1997 4.75%
	Effective January, 1998 4.25%
	Effective September, 1998 3.50%
	Effective September, 1999 3.00% (This increase represents the first year of the successor agreement.)
	A new faculty would normally be employed at Step I, but may, at the discretion of the president, be placed at any step on the schedule based upon degrees, experience, and qualifications.
	A unit member who has taught at least five courses in DCE at the college shall advance to the next step upon teaching a sixth course.
	Full enrollment for purposes of a non prorated salary will be 18 and 15 at Springfield Technical Community Colleges and Holyoke Community College respectively. The remaining 13 campuses must maintain past practice in regard to full enrollment criteria.

Full enrollment for purposes of a non prorated salary will be 18 and 15 at Springfield Technical Community Colleges and Holyoke Community College respectively. The remaining 13 campuses must maintain past practice in regard to full enrollment criteria.

The salary schedule over the life of the contract will be as follows:
	Summer	1/97	1/98	9/98	9/99*
Step 1	$ 584	$ 610	$ 635	$ 655	$ 680
Step 2	626	656	684	708	729
Step 3	667	702	735	761	784
* This represents the first year of the successor agreement.

Language

Grievance Procedures: Step One. Immediate Supervisor; Step Two President of the College; Step Three Mediation. If a grievance is not resolved at Step Two or the written decision of the president of the college, or designee thereof, is not rendered within the time specified, the mediation of a grievance may be initiated according to specific guidelines.

Appointment: Prior to making tentative appointments, the college must provide to employees eligible for reappointment a course interest and teaching availability form.

Full-time Vacancies: A DCE unit member who has reappointment rights (five courses over three consecutive fiscal years) will be given priority of consideration for full-time vacancies in the full- time unit in accordance with Article 16.02 of the day contract. The priority of consideration list is as follows: 1 . Retrenched unit member; 2. Member within a department; 3. Member of the college; 4. Member from another community college; and 5. DCE unit member with reappointment rights. DCE Salary for retirement purposes: The parties agreed to establish a committee to review current retirement statutes and regulations for the purpose of allowing day faculty and professional staff and other employees of the commonwealth to include income received in DCE for retirement purposes.

Ratification

Ratification is scheduled for the DCE contract for February 6 and 7 on the 15 campuses. All DCE members will receive the voting locations. Times for voting will be 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. (Some campuses may expand hours.) For further information, call your chapter president.

Berkshire	Open area by faculty mail boxes
Bristol	G Bldg. Faculty/Staff Lounge, Main campus Elsbree Street
Bunker Hill	Faculty/Staff Lounge
Cape Cod	College Library in the Rerference Room Office
Greenfield	Room 129
Holyoke	Frost Bldg. Outside Registrar's Office
Mass. Bay	Fifth Floor Lounge, Wellesley Campus
Massasoit	Brockton Campus: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Mail Room; 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Library Canton Campus: Both times in Library
Middlesex	Bedford Campus: Bldg 3, Room 126 Lowell-City: Fifth Floor, City 24
Mt. Wachusett	Board Room first floor
No. Shore	Beverly: Faculty Lounge LE 323 Danvers: Room 1240 Lynn: Faculty Lounge S 311
No. Essex	Haverhill: Faculty Lounge Lawrence: Atrium
Quinsigamond	Suprenant Lounge except Feb. 7 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monk's Room
Roxbury	Columbus Ave. Campus: Room 3-424 Commonwealty Ave. Campus: Lounge
Springfield	Chapter will notify members

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Governor Weld Proposes:

Disorganization of Higher Ed

The governor is proposing the dismantling of the public higher education system that was put into place only five years ago.

In that reorganization, the Board of Regents was eliminated, the Higher Education Coordinating Council (HECC) was created, and the university system was carved out to work with its own Board of Trustees.

The governor's proposal to change Chapter 15A of the Massachusetts General Laws includes the following:

	Eliminates HECC
	Establishes a Board of Higher Education (BOHE) a/k/a Higher Education Board (HEB)
	Eliminates the Secretary of Education and the corresponding position in the governor's cabinet
	Gives BOHE authority to create an executive director who will take on duties of the chancellor because the chancellor's positions is eliminated
	Eliminates the Massachusetts education on-line program
	Changes composition of present 11 member HECC board to 9-member BOHE board
	Eliminates appointees' terms -- BOHE members will serve at pleasure of the governor
	Makes explicit that the BOHE has power to consolidate institutions as part of a plan to integrate the delivery of higher education (Presently legislature closes or consolidates institutions.)
	Gives HEB authority to approve or disapprove mission statements (currently HECC can only approve)
	Gives HEB power to establish admission and program standards
	Gives HEB power to establish tuition rates and fees (currently trustees set fees)
	Gives HEB power to establish minimum and maximum enrollment levels as opposed to only review
	Gives HEB power to distribute funding to institutions in accordance with performance measures developed and administered by HEB
	Authorizes HEB to dismiss presidents at community colleges, state colleges, and university (This authority presently rests with institutions' boards of trustees.) Changes funding mechanism. New law provides for the legislature to appropriate a single line item to HEB which will in turn disburse funds to institutions based on the achievement of standards and performance measures.
	Repeals law which provides for institutions' boards of trustees to submit budget requests
	Eliminates teaching learning corps program
	Eliminates attracting excellence to teaching program
	Eliminates the following powers and duties from individual boards of trustees: Establish fees Dismiss presidents
	Eliminates professional development school grants program
	Abolishes Bay State Skills Corporation

This is only the higher education part.

What the governor does to the Board of Education for preK-12 is similar. It appears that two czarships have been established one for John Silber and one for James Carlin, the president chair of HECC.

Stay tuned for this Alice in Wonderland journey!

DAY CONTRACT

Proposed Language Changes

The major language changes in the Day contract are outlined below:

1. New title of college wide coordinator. This new position is for faculty who perform administrative or other noninstructional duties for college wide programs or activities.
2. Part-time day faculty and professional staff have immediate unit status Presently, these employees have to work three consecutive years prior to obtaining unit status.
3. Sick leave bank is automatic. Presently unit members have to join.
4. Tuition waiver for community colleges presently applies only to tuition. New language provides for 50% reimbursement for fees and continues at 100% for tuition This waiver applies to all courses, day or DCE, prior to 4 p.m.
5. Benefits for part-time employees The law provides for prorated benefits for individuals who work 18.75 hr/wk or more The implementation of this language, however, will probably end up in litigation since a number of questions remain unanswered. Can an employee combine day and DCE work? Does this transfer from one college to another?
6. Step Two of the grievance process has been eliminated and replaced with mediation. This process, by agreement o both parties, has already been implemented and both sides hope that having a mediate at level two will resolve grievances. I either party feels this new process is no working, then either party can terminate mediation and return to the Step Two process.
7. Removal of the prohibition of only filing in one forum. A unit member can fill a grievance and concurrently file an MCAD petition without putting one forum on hold.
8. Evaluation: Every three years for tenured unit members from the present two years. Faculty evaluations will have only two forms-classroom evaluations and summary. Professional staff will have only summary evaluation form. All components of evaluation system will appear on summary.
9. Professional staff pre-evaluation conference is mandatory if the supervisor intends to change a unit member's job description.
10. Professional staff overtime compensation changed from 1 hour overtime equating to 1 hour compensation to I hour overtime to 1.5 hours compensation.
11. DCE unit members will be added to the list of unit members who have priority of consideration for full time vacancies (See DCE Language Changes in lead article.)
12. Work outside academic year is presently $25/hour. The contract increases will apply changing the hourly rate to $25.50 for first year; $26.75 second year; $28 third year.
13. Part-time professional staff salaries will be $15 minimum with contractual increases applicable as well. Anyone making less than $15 must be increased to $15. No one making more will be reduced, and the contractual increases will be applied to him or her.

Because of the classification process we will be entering, it is imperative that everyone check his or her files and make sure all appropriate information is in file. Make sure all evaluations are complete.

Ratification of the day contract will not take place until such time as the MCCC has seen and approved the language concerning the classification study.

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Governor Cuts $25 Million From Higher Education

House I, the governor's budget was released on January 23, 1996. Contrary to his State of the State Address, the governor has proposed yet another deep cut to higher education along with a sweeping reorganization of higher education. His budget not only cuts $25 million from the maintenance accounts, but he has put in $50 million in grant money for "incentive" aid to be distributed by the Executive Director of the new Department of Higher Education.

For the last three years, the House and the Senate have supported higher education and have increased the governor's budget, have kept line-item budgets (allocations for individual colleges), have not allowed HECC to distribute monies to the campuses, and have eliminated tuition retention. Certainly working with the representatives and senators this spring to get our appropriation increased will be a task where everyone's help will be needed. The draconian cuts in public higher education along with the governor's new reorganization plan is designed to downsize and eliminate employees, programs, and institutions.

MCCC Statewide Election and MTA and NEA Delegate Election Time

This year elections will be held for MCCC statewide officers as well as delegate elections to the MTA Annual Meeting and the NEA Representative Assembly. Attached to this newsletter is a nomination-form page that must be filled out for each office sought. For example, those wishing to run for an officer's seat and as a delegate to the MTA and NEA meetings must fill out (3) nomination forms. For those running for statewide office, candidates must submit 50 signatures of active members (see back of nomination paper.) Ballots for the election are scheduled to be mailed on March 8, 1996. The February issue of the Newsletter will have the candidates pictures and statements.

Nomination papers are due no later than Tuesday, February 13, 1996, 4 p.m Papers must be in hands of Professor Allan Peck, Election Chair, by the deadline time.

Report your Blue Cross Dental Woes?

Anyone having a complaint or concern about the Blue Cross Dental plan and coverage should direct his or her comments to

Abe Sherf,
North Shore Community College.

He is the community college representative on the Health and Welfare Trust Fund.

Jan. 31	Facuty summary evaluation due
Jan. 31	First year professional staff summary evaluation
Feb. 2	Course materials submitted
Feb. 3	Fall sabbatical proposals due
Feb. 3	Sabbatical Leave Committee appointed
Feb. 15	Reappointments due for first through third year faculty
Feb. 22	New full- and part-time hire list due MCCC
Feb. 23	Course materials evaluations due

N.B. Dates may vary depending on first day of classes. Also, most of these dates are "last date" standards. In many instances, the action can he accomplished before the date indicated.

MCCC Newsletter Editor: Catherine A. Boudreau MCCC/MTA Newsletter 20 Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108

The MCCC Newsletter is a publication of the Massachusetts Community College Council. The Newsletter is intended to be an information source for the members of the MCCC and for other interested parties. The material in this publication may be reprinted with the acknowledgment of its source. For further information on issues discussed in this publication, contact Catherine Boudreau, Massasoit Community College, Brockton, MA 02402.

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