Whereas AB 1725 mandates the creation and implementation of a comprehensive community college accountability system, and
Whereas the measures of accountability may not reflect the success of vocational education programs,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourage local senates to work for the development of career resource and placement centers on each campus, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge the Chancellor's Office to develop a tracking system to ascertain numbers of transfer students, including univeristy summer registrants and reverse transfers.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge local senates to provide for periodic review of contract faculty hiring procedures by including in jointly developed hiring policies language specifying that the policy is subject to review and revision by the bodies responsible for its development at the request of either the academic senate or the board of trustees, and that such revised policy shall be mutually agreed upon by both parties before it replaces the previously agreed upon hiring procedures or policy.
Whereas every course must be included within one or more disciplines, and
Whereas this professional judgment can best be made by the academic senate of each college or district,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to the Board of Governors that it develop regulations directing local academic senates and local governing boards to jointly develop and agree upon a process for determining within which discipline(s) each course belongs.
Whereas current provisions in AB 1725 concerning administrator retreat rights to first-year probationary status are a cornerstone upon which other provisions of AB 1725 are based,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges oppose any attempt to change, modify, or delete the administrator retreat rights provisions of existing law.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges commend the Joint Committee for Review of the Master Plan for the following recommendations:
1. That the UC and CSU establish and maintain a 40:60 ratio of lower to upper division students.
2. That the community college cap on enrollment growth be lifted.
3. That each community colleges establish written transfer guarantees with 3 UC campuses and 5 CSU campuses.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to the Board of Governors the proposed lists of disciplines. (NOTE: Amendments to this resolution were referred to the Educational Policies Committee.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges endorse the model Contract Faculty Hiring Procedures proposed by the Educational Policies Committee and strongly urge its use by local senates as the basis for development, with district administration, of the contract faculty hiring procedures mandated by AB 1725.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges continue to address faculty concerns and make recommendations to the Board of Governors on the lists of disciplines.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges as the Executive Committee to prepare models for local senate use in determination of equivalencies for granting tenure as required by Education Code Section 87615.