4.3.2
FACULTY HIRING: REGULAR AND ADJUNCT
ADOPT: JUNE 11,1990
REVISED: APRIL 10, 2001
ED CODE: 87360
This policy and procedure cannot be changed without appropriate
constituent agreement according to Ed Code 87360.
The policy of the Sonoma County Junior College District is to establish faculty hiring procedures and guidelines that will provide a college faculty of highly qualified and committed people who are experts in their subject areas, who posses teaching skills, who will serve the needs of a varied student population, who can foster overall college effectiveness, and who are sensitive to and themselves represent the demographic diversity of the adult population of the state of California. [AB 1725, Section 4 (p) 2; (p) (1)]
The Sonoma County Junior College Board of Trustees, represented by the administration, has the principal legal and public responsibility for ensuring an effective hiring process. [AB 1725, Section 4 (s) (2)]
The faculty represented by the Santa Rosa Junior College Academic Senate has an inherent professional responsibility in the development and implementation of policies and procedures governing the hiring process, which is to ensure the quality of its faculty peers. [AB 1725, Section 4 (s) (3); (t) (1)]
Recognition of Joint Agreement Procedures
Hiring criteria, policies, and procedures for new faculty members and procedures for untenured administrators moving into faculty probationary status shall be developed and agreed upon jointly by representatives of the Sonoma County Junior College Board of Trustees. Provisions of California Education Code Section 87360 shall apply to all faculty hiring procedures and Section 87458 to all administrator retreat rights.
Review and Revision
The Sonoma County Junior College Faculty Hiring Policy and Procedures are subject to review and revision at the request of either the Academic Senate or the Board of Trustees. Any revision of the policy or procedures shall be mutually developed and agreed upon by both parties before there can be an alteration or replacement of the previously agreed upon hiring policy or procedures.
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