Resolved that the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges adopt as amended the report entitled "Student Equity: Proposals for Action" dated October 6, 1991, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge the Board of Governors to incorporate the recommendations from the "Student Equity Report" into Board policies and Title 5 regulations.
Whereas the Academic Senate is committed to cultural diversity in the curriculum, among the faculty, staff, and students, and
Whereas the Academic Senate is fully supportive of the varied array of multicultural heritages, and
Whereas during recent adverse economic times, acts of racism and prejudice have been noted to increase,
Whereas the new Title 5 Affirmative Action regulations provide guidelines to facilitate the successful implementation of faculty and staff diversity programs, and
Whereas the Academic Senate's Affirmative Action/Cultural Diversity Committee has completed a draft of a question and answer document addressing major implementation questions raised by local districts, and
Whereas this question and answer document primarily presents conceptual materials that can be used in discussing the intent and spirit of the new Title 5 regulations, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges pursue action to increase the diversity of faculty hired in contract education.
Whereas AB 1725 established the goal that by 2005 California's community college workforce as a system should reflect the diversity of the state, and
Whereas AB 1725 has established as a goal that 30% of new hires within the community colleges as a system should be ethnic minorities by fiscal year 1992-93, and
Whereas AB 1725 requires that each district have an Affirmative Action Plan that includes steps that the district will take in meeting and improving hiring goals for both full- and part-time faculty, and
Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is part of the worldwide community, and
Whereas the famines in Somalia and Sudan are rooted in tribalism and civil war, and
Whereas the net results of deaths from the famines are similar in nature to the ethnic cleansing occurring in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Whereas human torture and agony in both countries are crimes against humanity,
Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is part of the worldwide community, and
Whereas news developments reveal the presence of ethnic cleansing and detention camps in the communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Whereas news reports of the destruction of villages, executions and indiscriminate killings continue, and
Whereas reports of human torture, mutilation, rape, and overall human agony continue, and
Whereas Belgrade's policy of ethnic cleansing - ethnic extermination (cesenje) is intensifying, and
Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, in the late 1980s, supported the very effective Fund for Instructional Improvement funded Educational Leadership Colloquia workshops on shared governance, and
Whereas the success of the Educational Leadership Colloquia (ELC) was attributable, at least in part, to the attendance at the ELC of a team from each college, including faculty, students, trustees, administrators, and classified, and
Whereas Title 5 requires that job announcements be reviewed by college affirmative action committees,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourage local senates to work with their local districts to ensure that their hiring policies have a provision for the review of all job announcements by their local Affirmative Action committees.
M/S/C DISPOSITION: Local senates, Affirmative Action Officers
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourage local senates to include in their faculty hiring policies a requirement that all members serving on faculty selection committees be trained in the principles of Affirmative Action and in promoting Affirmative Action, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourage local senates to include in hiring policies the stipulation that no one will be allowed to serve on selection committees without receiving Affirmative Action training, and