Adjunct Benefits

Adjunct faculty who become eligible for the District plans can participate in the following:

• Medical - Your Choice of Medical Plans
• Delta Dental (HMO or PPO)
• VSP Vision PPO

 Adjunct Faculty who are not already enrolled in Benefits may apply to our Benefits Program by submitting an Adjunct Faculty Health Insurance Request Form. 

Once enrolled, an employee may experience a qualifying event (such as marriage, divorce, birth of baby, adoption and employment status change) that will allow a mid-year change to their current benefits. The employee is responsible for notifying Human Resources within 30 days of any qualifying event that would cause a change in benefit status including a COBRA eligibility change.  If this deadline is missed, the employee must wait until the next open enrollment period to make changes to their enrollment coverage.  

Additional Plans:

All Adjunct Faculty are eligible for the Voluntary plan of Income Protection. To find out more about this plan please visit the Voluntary Plans Page

Adjunct Faculty may also sign up for Deferred Compensation plans any time of the year (403B/457B retirement savings plans). Please visit the appropriate Retirement Plans section on the Retirement Plans Page for information on how to sign up with the vendor and in Workday. 

Forms:

Adjunct Faculty Health Insurance Request Form
Multi-District Part Time Faculty Health Insurance Reimbursement Request

Eligibility for Adjunct Benefits at GCCCD:

Adjunct faculty shall be eligible for District-paid contributions toward family coverage for
medical, vision, and dental premiums on the same basis as tenured/tenure-track faculty
enrolled in those plans, provided they complete assignments that total forty percent (40%)
FTEF or more for two (2) consecutive academic semesters.

The effective date of insurance for adjunct faculty and their dependents is the date when
they complete an enrollment application where such date coincides with or follows the
completion of two (2) qualifying consecutive academic semesters. Coverage continues as
long as qualifying hours are served. For purposes of determining qualifications, summer
or winter recess shall not represent an interruption. 

Faculty members currently eligible for benefits, if assigned as long-term substitute or leave
replacement in lieu of their initial semester assignment, shall have their long-term substitute or leave replacement hours counted towards their FTEF for purposes of benefit eligibility only. Retired tenured faculty members are not eligible for this program.

Adjunct faculty who had qualified for and received health care benefits under the Program and subsequently lose their benefits by dropping below the 40% FTEF requirement for Program eligibility, shall be eligible for reinstatement on the first day of the first full month immediately following the semester census date at which time they were found to be working a 40% or greater assignment, following a one-semester or less gap (i.e., period of ineligibility) since their loss of eligibility. Individual faculty members must initiate a request with GCCCD Human Resources to have their benefits reinstated.

Adjunct faculty on medical leave shall have their benefits continue to the point of exhaustion of all paid leaves as per Article XIII of the AFT C.B.A., regardless of the end date of their assignment when they first went out on leave.

Eligibility For Multi-District Part-Time Faculty Reimbursement:

To be eligible for health insurance reimbursement for a portion of their paid medical insurance premium, a Multi-District Part-Time Faculty Member must have met all of the following criteria over the past two consecutive fall/spring or spring/fall semesters:

1. Served in more than one community college district;
2. Not have held an assignment in any community college district with a health care
   program for part-time faculty in which their assignment equaled or exceeded 40%
   of the full-time equivalent tenured faculty assignment;
3. Not have received coverage from any other employer sponsored plan, or as a
   covered dependent of anyone receiving coverage from an employer sponsored plan;
4. Have purchased a healthcare plan covering themself and optionally any eligible
   dependents

A qualifying Multi-District Part-Time Faculty Member must provide documentation as requested by the District demonstrating they meet the eligibility requirements above.