Criteria
for the Selection of Faculty Nominees to the Board
of Governors of the California Community Colleges
Candidate
Criteria
Required:
tenured faculty members.
Leadership experience in an academic environment.
Demonstrated understanding of California community
college issues at a state level.
Desirable:
Academic senate leadership at local level
such as senate officer, Executive Committee
member, or committee chair.
Experience at statewide level such as Academic
Senate committees, Chancellor's Office advisor
committee, or other statewide faculty organization.
Recruitment
Process
Each year the President of the Academic Senate
or his/her designee shall initiate and oversee
the recruitment and selection process to ensure
timely submission of nominees to the Governor's
Office. The appended timeline is suggested. The
Executive Committee, Standards and Practices Committee
and Local Senates Committee will recruit candidates
for the Board of Governors.
Nominations may be made by a local senate or
a member of the Executive Committee of the Academic
Senate. The is strongly encouraged to include
a letter of endorsement from the nominee's local
academic senate.
Any faculty member who has been previously considered
and would like to be reconsidered may do so by
submitting a letter stating that request and an
updated resume to the Academic Senate Office.
The Standards and Practices Committee, in consultation
with the President shall screen the applications
of all nominees and shall forward names of at
least three candidates to the Executive Committee
for interview and final selection at the Executive
Committee meeting in October.
The President of the Academic Senate shall select
a workgroup of Executive Committee members to
develop questions that the Executive Committee
will use in the interviews of candidates whose
names have been forwarded by the Standards and
Practices Committee. The questions will be developed
from questions suggested by Executive Committee
members. To preserve the confidentiality of the
process and to ensure fairness to nominees, any
review of interview questions by the Executive
Committee shall be conducted in closed session.
Interviews by the Executive Committee shall occur
in closed session prior to its regular October
meeting. Each Candidate who is interviewed must
be asked the same questions as the other candidates;
however, follow-up questions are allowed. The
Executive Committee, by majority vote, will select
at least three nominees to recommend to the Governor.
It must be understood that in order to avoid
a conflict of interests, a candidate who holds
a position on the board of the a statewide faculty
organization will probably be required to resign
from that position upon appointment to the Board
of Governors.
Faculty whose names are not among those forwarded
to the Governor's Office shall be notified immediately
after the final selection of nominees is forwarded
to the Governor.
