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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1414
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION AND
EMPLOYMENT ADVANCEMENT
Introduced by:
(HED)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PERCENTAGE OF COURSES TAUGHT
BY PART-TIME FACULTY AT THE CONNECTICUT STATE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2025) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Part-time faculty" means a person appointed on a semester-by-2
semester basis to teach a specific course or specific courses; and 3
(2) "Academic courses" does not include a course of study in which 4
the purpose is to teach practical or technical skills for a specific licensed 5
or certified occupation. 6
(b) The Board of Regents for Higher Education shall include in any 7
agreement collectively bargained on and after July 1, 2025, with the 8
employee organizations representing faculty employed at the 9
Connecticut State Community College a provision concerning the 10
percentage of academic courses that may be taught at said college by 11
part-time faculty. Such provision shall permit part-time faculty to teach 12
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(1) not more than forty-five per cent of the total number of academic 13
courses on and after July 1, 2026, (2) not more than thirty-five per cent 14
of the total number of academic courses on and after July 1, 2027, and 15
(3) not more than twenty-five per cent of the total number of academic 16
courses on and after July 1, 2028. 17
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require a phased-in reduction of the percentage of courses taught by
part-time faculty at the Connecticut State Community College.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]