Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges request the Chancellor to recommend to the Board of Governors that the Board develop regulations stipulating that Affirmative Action expenditures as per section 87104 of AB 1725 be augmentations of expenditures for existing affirmative action programs and for new affirmative action programs.
Whereas vocational education advisory committees provide a link with the communities served by community colleges, and
Whereas the information provided by vocational advisory committees helps shape programs and policy,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend that local senates, through their affirmative action committees, encourage local vocational faculty members to make every effort to appoint underrepresented minority members to their vocational advisory committees.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge that each local senate give attention to the disabled as it reviews the college/district affirmative action plan.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend that the Affirmative Action Committee revise the April,1987, Senate document, Affirmative Action Guidelines, to reflect the mandates of AB 1725.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges conduct research to determine which colleges made the greatest strides in affirmative action hiring in 1989-90 and then present a general session in the future with a panel comprised of representatives from the five colleges with the best records, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges formally commend these colleges for that progress.
Whereas at its 1989 Spring Session, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges adopted a model hiring document, "Contract Faculty Hiring Procedures: A Model Based on AB 1725" with the understanding that revisions would be made, if necessary, to refine the document, and
Whereas the Affirmative Action Committee of the Academic Senate has studied the document in regards to its possible impact and ramifications upon hiring of the underrepresented, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges request that the state Chancellor's Office require local academic senates to sign off on campus/district Affirmative Action Plans.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge local senates to adopt the following policy relating to search processes: when, at the point of selecting candidates for interviews, there appears to be a pool of underrepresented candidates insufficient to project a good possibility of hiring affirmatively, the position should be reopened at least once.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to the Board of Governors that it take action to apply the affirmative action goals of AB 1725 to all community college staff, including managers, classified personnel, and contractors.
Whereas AB 1725 has mandated greater participation of faculty in the governance of California community colleges, and
Whereas there are few underrepresented faculty involved in the local and statewide academic senate,
Resolved that a model be developed by the Affirmative Action Committee of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges which will help facilitate and enhance access and participation of the underrepresented faculty within the local and statewide academic senate.