Staff Diversity Data
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge the Board of Governors to direct the Chancellor's Office to disseminate in its entirety the staff diversity in hiring data collected from the districts.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge the Board of Governors to direct the Chancellor's Office to disseminate in its entirety the staff diversity in hiring data collected from the districts.
Whereas AB 1725 (Chapter 973, Statutes of 1988) requires local boards of trustees to submit to the Chancellor's Office affirmations of compliance and report success rates in increasing the hiring of ethnic minorities, and
Whereas the goal that 30% of all new hires by 1992-93 be ethnic minorities will best be met if every district strives to meet that goal, and
Whereas the goal cannot be realized if individual districts assume that other districts will exceed this 30% goal, leaving them free not to meet it,
Whereas AB 1725 (Chapter 973, Statutes of 1988) states, "...that by fiscal year 1992-93, 30% of all new hires in the California Community Colleges as a system will be ethnic minorities," and
Whereas districts are including classified and administrative hires when reporting hires in this category, and
Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is concerned that such practices may reduce the number of ethnic minority faculty hires,
Whereas AB 1725 (Chapter 973, Statutes of 1988) affirms the dynamic role of the California Community Colleges in the postsecondary arena, and
Whereas the Chancellor's Office for the California Community Colleges is vital in facilitating and guiding local districts in implementing the mandates set forth in the legislation,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges adopt the paper from the Affirmative Action Committee entitled, "Ramifications and Implications of Affirmative Action on Hiring."
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to local senates that they work with their affirmative action officers and other appropriate college personnel to provide workshops to teach faculty how to assume their new responsibilities in hiring effective faculty.
5. Validation of hiring criteria may be done by, among other methods, a group of faculty in the discipline in question who, after discussion with an affirmative action professional, certify that in their professional option the possession of the quality in question is either necessary to adequate performance in the discipline in question or desirable for fully effective performance in that position. [See section 53023, page 8]
Amend Section 6 by adding the underlined words as follows: For every discipline requiring a master's degree as the minimum qualification, the master's degree or equivalent in the discipline will be presumed to be a valid desirable qualification without requiring validation as previously determined at the specific college or district.
Amend by replacing #5 in the "Response" which reads: 5. Validation of hiring criteria may be done by, among other methods, a group of faculty in the discipline in question who, after discussion with an affirmative action professional, certify that in their professional opinion the possession of the quality in question is either necessary to adequate performance in the discipline in. . .
esolved that the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges endorse as amended the position paper "Affirmative Action Regulations - A Response".