Part-time Faculty Issues: Comprehensive Solutions Study

Spring
1999
Resolution Number
19.02
 
Contact
Assigned to
Unassigned
Category
Professional Standards
Status
Completed
Status Report

The Senate adopted Part-Time Fculty, A Principled Perspective in spring 2002.

Whereas the California community colleges are teaching and learning institutions and all students deserve full-serve professional faculty to guide their educational activities, and

Whereas the California Legislature has recognized that there is only one type of faculty by establishing a system of minimum qualifications for all faculty positions under the disciplines list recommended by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, and

Whereas the current California Education Code definition of "temporary faculty" allows the replacement of full-service professional faculty positions with limited service part-time temporary faculty positions having lowered professional expectations and support, and

Whereas the Chancellor and other California community college leaders have called for a comprehensive solution to the problems and issues developing out of current system use of part-time temporary faculty,

Resolved that the Academic Senate direct the Executive Committee to study comprehensive solutions to the problems and issues developing out of the current system use of part-time temporary faculty, including the possibility of a change in the California Education Code to require hiring of full-service faculty for all faculty positions, whether full-time contract or regular, or part-time contract or regular, and to limit the use of temporary faculty to short-term substitutions for duties of contract or regular faculty, and

Resolved that the Academic Senate direct the Executive Committee to report to the2000 Spring Plenary Session with analysis and recommendations.