Whereas small colleges in multi-college districts are harmed by their faculty's not meeting the 75/25 rule, and
Whereas the language of the 75/25 provisions of AB 1725 was designed to prevent misuse of the part-time faculty, and
Whereas the current language applies only to district compliance,
Resolved that the Academic Senate urge the legislature to make the 75/25 rule apply to individual colleges in multi-college districts.
Whereas the second resolve of Resolution 15.07 (F93) states "
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges direct the Executive Committee to develop a method for including counseling faculty in the full-time hiring regulations of AB 1725," and
Whereas the Executive Committee concluded that the current method used to include library faculty in the 75/25 calculations should also be the new method used to include full-time counseling faculty new hires only in the 75/25 calculations,
Resolved that the Academic Senate support Title 5 regulations or legislation that would count all full-time and part-time faculty hours (instructors, counselors, librarians, non-instructional), not including overtime hours, in the provisions of Title 5, Sections 51025 and 53310, and
Whereas AB 1725 states that there is a "long-standing policy of the Board of Governors that at least 75 percent of the hours of credit instruction in the California Community Colleges, as a system, should be taught by full-time instructors" -87482.6(a)-, and
Whereas AB 1725 requires the Chancellor to report to each community college district the number of full-time faculty (FTE) which were to be secured through the use of program improvement revenue to achieve the 75/25 ratio, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate request that the Chancellor's Office provide an analysis of the movement of the system to75/25 ratio over the last three years and continue such analysis and communication yearly.
Whereas Assembly Bill 1725 (1988) mandated significant reforms of community colleges in an effort to better serve the needs of a diverse California citizenry, and
Whereas the bill also recognized the pivotal role that full-time faculty play in student preparation and success and the tendency of districts to rely too heavily on part-time faculty to provide needed services, and
Whereas the language of the 75/25 provisions of the bill were specifically designed to prevent misuse of part-time faculty, and