Professional Standards

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to the Board of Governors the proposed minimum qualifications for apprenticeship faculty:
PROPOSAL FOR MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIRE FOR APPRENTICESHIP INSTRUCTION

For hire as an instructor within the area of apprenticeship, the individual will need to meet the following minimum qualifications plus possession of the appropriate certification to practice or licensure or its equivalent, if available.

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges direct the Executive Committee to continue the discussion of minimum qualifications for faculty who teach noncredit courses and bring a recommendation to the 1990 Fall Session, and

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to the Board of Governors that the minimum qualifications for faculty who teach noncredit courses be continued as currently provided in Title 5 for those hired before January 31, 1991, and

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend to the Board of Governors that a study of the appropriateness of minimum qualifications as required by AB 1725 (see below) be conducted in this first year of the application of minimum qualifications, and

Resolved that the results of this study be made available to local senates by September 15, 1991, and

Resolved that this study be conducted in an appropriate research format, and

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges direct its pre-collegiate basic skills committee to make a report at the 1991 Spring Session on the advisability of whether or not to have a pre-collegiate basic skills discipline, and

Resolved that if the recommendation is positive, it be debated and acted upon at the 1991 Spring Session.

Whereas AB1725 identifies remedial education as a priority, and

Whereas increasing numbers of students in the California Community College require pre-collegiate basic education, and

Whereas there is not a basic skills discipline listed on the Disciplines List, and

Whereas there is widespread disagreement about the creation of a basic skills discipline,

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges review the degree requirements for adaptive P.E. approved during the 1989 Fall Session to verify whether or not "occupational" therapy was correctly used instead of "physical" therapy, and

Resolved that if the Executive Committee finds that physical therapy was intended that the correction be made.

Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has demonstrated that it has successfully carried out the responsibility for establishing and reviewing the Disciplines List, and

Whereas an effective process of consultation and formal hearings has been established,

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges reaffirm the position that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges be the organization with the responsibility to carry out the process of recommending changes in the Disciplines List to the Board of Governors.

Whereas AB 1725 mandates that the system of minimum qualifications be evaluated at least every three years (87357a2), and

Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has established an effective process of consultation and formal hearings regarding the development of, and modification to, the Disciplines List, and

Whereas the first revisions to the Disciplines List, based on the recommendations of this session, will be presented to the Board of Governors in Spring 1990,

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges support the position that the ratio of full-time faculty in noncredit programs be substantially increased.

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges endorse the position paper entitled Administrator Retreat Rights: An Introduction and A Model Procedure.