Teaching Load 101
Required days on which staff development activities are scheduled instead of regular instruction.
What is flex?
Originally named the Oceanside-Carlsbad Junior College, what is now know as MiraCosta College was founded in this year.
What is 1934?
A contractually required staff development day for faculty, staff and administrators each Fall semester that serves to “kick off” the academic year.
What is All-College Day?
This office provides academic accommodations, advising and other services to students who experience a variety of disabilities.
What is Student Accessibility Services (SAS)?
MiraCosta serves about this many students (headcount) in recent semesters.
What is 22,000 students?
The uniform measure of a faculty workload, 15 of these constitute a full-time faculty load in a semester.
What is Lecture Hour Equivalent, or LHE?
In addition to a thriving online program, MiraCosta College District has four campus locations, including the Technology Career Institute (TCI), the Oceanside Campus, the San Elijo Campus, and this location.
What is the Community Learning Center (CLC)?
The period of time, from July 1 through June 30, for budgeting and accounting purposes.
What is the fiscal year?
Faculty are encouraged to submit this referral form if they have concerns about a student's well-being and would like the CARE Team to connect with them.
What is a CARE referral?
Slightly over half of students fall into this age category.
What is 18-24?
Regular classroom, counseling, or library assignments that fall within the beginning and ending dates of the annual contractual calendar or extensions thereof, and in excess of contractual minimums.
What is overload?
MiraCosta offers 162 degrees and certificates, including a BA program in this subject.
What is Biomanufacturing?
The date by which all faculty need to publish their online classes.
What is the first day of classes?
MiraCosta College provides fresh food distributions at the Oceanside campus and Community Learning Center (CLC), as well as a food pantry at three locations, Oceanside, CLC, and this campus.
What is San Elijo?
This is the largest ethnic group on campus, constituting about 44% of the student population.
What is Hispanic/Latine?
An option available to faculty teaching overload. In lieu of payment for overload assignments, faculty members may elect to save those LHE for future use as released time.
What is banking?
MiraCosta serves the Costal North San Diego County, from Camp Pendleton at the northern end of the district, to this city at the southern end.
What is Del Mar?
The date by which all “crashing” students should be added to your class, all inactive students need to be dropped, and you need to submit your class roster.
What is Census?
The Learning Center (TLC) offers free tutoring and writing feedback at three campus locations and online using this online communications platform.
What is Zoom?
Every year, MiraCosta students participate in a variety of artistic activities, including a student art show, theater productions, musical performances, and this type of performance.
What is dance?
Hours engaged in direct student interaction in addition to contact hours, including office hours, advisory activities, presentations, or the equivalent.
What are student hours?
Recent years have seen many efforts to revitalize physical spaces on campus, including the current construction of this new building “village” for campus equity work.
What is the Equity Village?
The date by which absences need to be submitted in Workday.
What is as soon as possible?
Joined in 1991, this program, which is designed to help students adjust to college life and prepare them for transfer to four-year universities through an exploration of Mexican-American/Latino literature and experience, is MiraCosta College’s longest running (but not only) Academic Success and Equity (ASE) program.
What is Puente?
In AY 2024-2025, the overall college course success rate was this.
What is 76%