The Baruch College Adjunct Faculty Handbook

You must attend all of your scheduled classes to teach, proctor exams, supervise research, etc. at the scheduled time.

If your course has a scheduled final, you must give it at the scheduled time.  You are being paid for those two hours and may not give the final during the last week of classes instead.  

You are entitled to paid “leave absences” each semester (non-cumulative) equal to the number of times that your class meets each week.   This leave must be for personal illness or personal emergency including religious observances, death in the immediate family or similar personal need which cannot be postponed.   You are also entitled to receive your regular compensation when absent for jury duty.  You must notify the department chair and/or department secretary as far in advance as possible.   If no advance notice is possible, and your class is going to be cancelled, make arrangements to notify your students.   Your department secretary can help communicate with students.

If you can't be present for a particular class and advance notice is possible, a substitute can cover your class.   Notify your chairperson so that the department can assign a faculty member to cover for you .  Never arrange for a substitute without notifying your chair.