Flex Day
About Flex Day
Flex Days provide an opportunity for faculty, staff, and administrators to come together for focused professional development activities. Sessions can address all-campus/all-district issues as well as focus on more specific training.
District Flex Day Calendar for 2025-2026 Academic Year
There are six (6) Flex Days in the 2025-2026 academic calendar, scheduled as follows:
- Monday, August 11th (District Flex Day)
- Tuesday, August 12th (mandatory for full-time faculty) (College Flex Day)
- Wednesday, October 8th (College Flex Day)
- Thursday, January 8th (District Flex Day)
- Friday, January 9th (mandatory for full-time faculty) (College Flex Day)
- Thursday, April 16th (College Flex Day)
Flex Day Proposal Deadlines
You don’t need to wait for our proposal request. Feel free to submit a proposal or recommendation for ANY of our upcoming Flex Days! Though we cannot accommodate all requests, we will take them into careful consideration.
- April 16, 2026 – Deadline for proposals Friday, March 13, 2026
- August 2026- Deadline for proposals, Friday of finals week 2026
For more information, contact Ellen Young (younge@smccd.edu).
Frequently Asked Flex Day Questions
The information provided below is sourced from the SMCCCD Flex Memorandum for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
Resources from past Flex Days are posted in the Follow-Up Flex Day Resources Page. Every effort is made to post these resources as quickly as possible following each flex day.
Check out the District Acadmic Senate website Faculty Flex Obligations for the most up to date information.
The AFT website has a helpful section on Flex Day for Part-Time Faculty including the following instructional videos:
Part 1: Overview
Part 2: Understanding eligibility and pay for different scenarios
Part 3: Timesheet instructions
The District Acadmic Senate website Faculty Flex Obligations is also a useful resource for all Flex Day information.
The AFT website has a helpful section on Flex Day for Part-Time Faculty including the following instructional videos:
Part 1: Overview
Part 2: Understanding eligibility and pay for different scenarios
Part 3: Timesheet instructions
The District Acadmic Senate website Faculty Flex Obligations is also a useful resource for all Flex Day information.
Flex Activities on Alternative Days
The purpose of Flex days, according to Title 5, Division 6, §55724, is to provide time for faculty to participate in “development activities related to staff, student, and instructional improvement.”
Accordingly, activities that can count toward flex time may include, but need not be limited to:
- Course instruction and evaluation
- Staff development, in-service training and instructional improvement
- Program and course curriculum or learning resource development and evaluation
- Student personnel services
- Learning resource services
- Related activities, such as student advising, guidance, orientation, matriculation services, and student, faculty & staff diversity
- Departmental or division meetings, conferences and workshops, and institutional research
- Other duties as assigned by the district
- The necessary supporting activities for the above
If you are uncertain whether a particular activity would count as a Flex activity on an alternative day, then
Typically, the second flex day at the beginning of the semester is the 'Mandatory" All-college day. Check out the District Acadmic Senate website Faculty Flex Obligations for the most up to date information.
Typically, the first Flex Day at the begining of the semester is the District-Wide Flex Day, and the second Flex Day at the beginning of the semester is the 'Mandatory" All-college day. Check out the District Acadmic Senate website Faculty Flex Obligations for the most up to date information.
Generally Flex Day proposals for the begining-of the semester Flex Days are due before the end of the previous semester, and the mid-semester Flex Day Proposals are due aproximately a month before the Flex Day.
Feel free to submit a proposal or recommendation for ANY of our upcoming Flex Days! at any time Though we cannot accommodate all requests, we will take them into careful consideration.
Your Union Representatives, Academic Senate Representatives, and Flex Day Coordinator should be able to help you with your Flex Feporting questions.
A note from the librarians! "Faculty can receive Flex credit if they meet with librarians because it fits with several of the types of activities listed in section 55724 of Title 5. Furthermore, PT faculty can use this activity for flex credit too, as long as they follow 7.11.2 in the contract. Schedule a library session now or email the librarians for any additional questions."