Dr. John Griffin, the faculty senate president and honorary Board of Regents member, discussed the issue during his first meeting with NMC President Sharon Hart.
Griffin, however, didn’t explain why two-year nonrenewable contracts should be scrapped.
But since 2010, faculty members have been proposing indefinite employment contracts to ensure job security after they noted a high turnover rate at NMC due to provisions that allow the nonrenewal of contract with or without cause.
Griffin also reported the need to implement the college promotion policy.
He told the board that the promotion policy has been in place since 1989, but has never been implemented.
All NMC employees, including Griffin, have two-year contracts. The contract is renewable at will based on the president’s decision.
The promotion policy sets the path and requirements for an employee to rise from instructor to assistant professor, to associate professor to professor.
This promotion affects 34 instructional faculty members and 49 non-instructional faculty members.
NMC Board Chairman Juan T. Lizama said it was his first time to hear the concerns of the faculty senate.
He asked Griffin why he didn’t tell the board about them in their previous meetings.
Hart, for her part, said she will review Griffin’s recommendations.
