Instructors have a responsibility to meet their classes on the dates and for the time interval scheduled unless prevented from doing so by illness or other emergency. When it becomes impossible to meet a scheduled class, it is the instructor's responsibility to notify the college. This should be done by calling the department chair.

Notification that you will be absent should be given to your department chair as early as possible. Department chairs have the responsibility of finding appropriate substitutes for classes. Substitutes must be instructors who have been processed by the SMC Academic Human Resources Office.

If you are part-time and teach during the evening, please contact the Evening Dean on duty (see attached schedule).

Full-time faculty shall be granted each college year a maximum of 10 days of ill time.

Adjunct faculty earn illness time at the rate of 6 hours for each one hundred hours of teaching service. Illness leave hours are earned from the first day of employment and are accumulated from semester to semester and year to year.

Absences for reasons other than illness, certain emergencies, or official college business are considered personal and are unpaid.