Adjunct Faculty are required to hold paid office hours. You are paid for your office hours from the first day of classes through the final day of the semester, including the week of final exams. The number of weekly office hours you are responsible for is equal to 5 times the percentage of full-time load that you are teaching. A quick formula to determine your number of weekly office hours is:

Full-time load in credit divisions range between 14 and 24 units. Most divisions/departments have 15 units for full-time load, but check with your Division Chair to be sure.  

Ask your division about office spaces available to adjunct faculty members. It is often an option to use the same classroom you teach in to hold office hours as long as there is no class just before or after. Ask your division's administrative assistant to check availability and to schedule office hours in the classroom.

Another option is to hold synchronous office hours online - talk to your division if you're interested in this option.

You can hold your office hours in one of two Adjunct Faculty Centers. The first is in SG 140, which is on the ground floor of the San Gabriel Building, and the second is on the second floor of the San Rafael Building in SR 236. These spaces include adjunct faculty desks, several computers, and printers. See the Adjunct Office Space Page for more information. Finally, you may be able to meet students elsewhere on campus (run this by your division chair). For example, you could meet students at a table by the campus coffee kiosk as long you can consistently be found at that location.

Whatever you choose for office hours, make sure you make the time and location clear to your division and include them on your syllabus. Additionally, report your office hours online for the school-wide database at www.glendale.edu/facultyofficehours.

Credit, 14-unit division/department

(English Composition, Humanities)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 14-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/14 * 5 = 3.214 office hours weekly, which comes to about 3hrs, 13 min.

The following table is useful for a 14-unit department:

Credit, 15-unit division/department 

(Accounting, Administration of Justice, Alcohol & Drug Abuse American Sign Language, Anthropology, Art History, Astronomy, Biology, Business Administration, Computer Applications and Business Office Technologies, Chemistry, Child Development, Computer Science and Information Systems, Economics, Engineering, English (except composition), English as a Second Language - Credit, Environmental Technology, Ethnic Studies, Fire Technology, Foreign Language, Geography, Geology, Health, Health Information Technology, History, Journalism, Kinesiology, Library, Mass Communications, Mathematics, Medical Office Assistant, Music, Nutrition, Oceanography, Paleontology, Philosophy, Physical Science, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Real Estate, Social Science, Sociology, Speech Communications, Student Development, Theater Arts)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 15-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/15 * 5 = 3 office hours weekly.

A quick way to compute the number of weekly office hours for a 15-unit division is to add 20 minutes of office hours for every weekly hour of teaching. The following table is useful for a 15-unit division/department:

Credit, 16-unit division/department

(Art, Dance, Photography)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 16-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/16 * 5 = 2.8125 office hours weekly, which comes to about 2hrs, 49 min.

The following table is useful for a 16-unit division/department:

Credit, 18-unit division/department

(Culinary Arts, Electronics and Computer Technology, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Media Arts, Nursing Science, Quality Assurance and Quality Control)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 18-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/18 * 5 = 2.5 office hours weekly, which comes to about 2hrs, 30 min.

The following table is useful for an 18-unit division/department:

Credit, 19-unit division/department

(Athletics, Physical Education)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 19-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/19 * 5 = 2.368 office hours weekly, which comes to about 2hrs, 22 min.

The following table is useful for a 19-unit division/department:

Credit, 21-unit division/department

(Architecture, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Cooperative Education, Educational Media Technology, Engineering Support, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, Machine Technology, Materials and Process, Metallurgy and Metals, Technical Education, Welding)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 21-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/21 * 5 = 2.143 office hours weekly, which comes to about 2hrs, 9 min.

The following table is useful for a 21-unit division/department:

Credit, 24-unit division/department

(Aviation and Transportation, Emergency Medical Tech)

As an example, if you are teaching 9 units in a 24-unit credit division, you would be required to hold 9/24 * 5 = 1.875 office hours weekly, which comes to about 1 hr, 53 min.

The following table is useful for a 24-unit division/department:

Noncredit/Continuing Education

(Adult Basic Secondary Education, Business Computers, Business Office Skills, English as a Second Language - Noncredit, Lifelong Learning, Parent Education) 

Full-time load in noncredit divisions is 21 units.  As an example, if you were teaching 14 units in a noncredit division (Garfield Campus), you would be required to hold 14/21 * 5 = 3 hr 20 min of office hours.

The following table is useful for a Noncredit/Continuing Ed department:

Office space for Noncredit/Continuing Ed is currently under construction on Garfield Campus, but space will be available when construction is completed.  

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