Whereas, The Chancellor's Registry is an efficient tool for effective recruiting of candidates for faculty positions;
Whereas, An excellent opportunity to recruit new faculty is the national meetings of discipline organizations, such as the Modern Language Association and the American Psychological Association; and
Whereas, Individual districts may be unable to send representatives to the national conferences to recruit candidates;
Whereas, The rigid interview process in common use throughout the California Community College System emphasizes the importance of sameness and uniformity; and
Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has a history of support for diversity, which entails a celebration of difference;
Whereas, Equity and diversity planning is central to the California Community College mission and is of the highest priority at the System Office; and
Whereas, Effective equity planning entails the collection of demographic data, as well as a review of how local colleges are addressing the needs of a diverse population of students;
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges revise its paper Student Equity: Guidelines for Developing a Plan to include linkages between equity planning and accreditation; and
Whereas community college faculty still does not reflect adequate diversity,
Resolved that the Academic Senate urge local senates to intensify their efforts to recruit, train, and hire highly qualified and diverse faculty and to work with human resources departments on hiring plans to ensure aggressive advertising, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate recommend that local senates study unique ways that individual campuses can encourage diversity, and
Whereas "hiring criteria, policies and procedures shall be agreed upon jointly" by the local governing board and the academic senate (Education Code 87360), and
Whereas the local academic senates as representatives of faculty have primacy in determining discipline-specific program goals and student success, and
Whereas some colleges do not involve faculty in determining the final recommended list of faculty hiring prioritization to college presidents,
Whereas California community colleges have been making only limited progress toward the goal of achieving staff and faculty diversity, and
Whereas the Chancellor's Office, in conjunction with the Association of Chief Human Resources Officers, has composed technical assistance teams, whose purpose is to instruct local campuses on diversity hiring procedures and best practices, and
Whereas these teams have been relatively inactive and have had little or no faculty representation, and
Whereas California community colleges have been making only limited progress toward the goal of achieving staff and faculty diversity, and
Whereas California community colleges are currently engaged in extensive hiring activities, presenting an unparalleled opportunity to make major strides toward our diversity hiring goals, and
Whereas all districts are required to have in place diversity hiring plans and are required to provide diversity hiring training to all members of hiring selection committees, and
Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges in Spring 1998 endorsed the Board of Governors' Diversity Pledge (later called the Commitment),
Resolved that the Academic Senate endorse the Chancellor's Office Action Plan to implement the Board of Governors Commitment to Diversity Statement.
Whereas the Chancellor's Office has developed an ad hoc committee on employment availability data for use in California community college faculty hiring, and
Whereas community colleges are hiring more full-time faculty this year and effective hiring practices necessitate accurate workforce analysis (availability data), and
Whereas in all probability there will be new funding ($10 - 40 million) for full-time faculty hires,
Resolved that the Academic Senate hold a breakout at the 1999 Fall Plenary Session on the roles and functions of the Title 5 required affirmative action/diversity local college committee, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate recommend to the local senates that the local affirmative action/diversity committee be a committee of the local academic senate.