Report 2022-113 Recommendations
When an audit is completed and a report is issued, auditees must provide the State Auditor with information regarding their progress in implementing recommendations from our reports at three intervals from the release of the report: 60 days, six months, and one year. Additionally, Senate Bill 1452 (Chapter 452, Statutes of 2006), requires auditees who have not implemented recommendations after one year, to report to us and to the Legislature why they have not implemented them or to state when they intend to implement them. Below, is a listing of each recommendation the State Auditor made in the report referenced and a link to the most recent response from the auditee addressing their progress in implementing the recommendation and the State Auditor's assessment of auditee's response based on our review of the supporting documentation.
Recommendations in Report 2022-113: California Community Colleges: Increasing Full-Time Faculty and Diversity Remains a Challenge (Release Date: February 2023)
| Recommendations to Community Colleges Chancellor's Office | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 1 | To monitor districts' progress toward the goal of having at least 75 percent of their hours of instruction provided by full-time faculty, by February 2024, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and the Chancellor's Office should develop, implement, and report on a metric of instruction that calculates actual instruction hours taught by full-time and part-time faculty. |
No Action Taken |
| 2 | To ultimately achieve the goal of at least 75 percent of instruction taught by full-time faculty, the Chancellor's Office, by February 2024, should set increasing annual benchmarks for the amount of instruction by full-time faculty at the districts, with the goal of achieving an appropriate target percentage within five years. The Chancellor's Office should also develop a mechanism to promote compliance with its benchmarks. |
Pending |
| 3 | To ensure that districts appropriately use the funds designated for hiring full-time faculty, the Chancellor's Office should, by August 2023, require each district to report to the Chancellor's Office in November of each year on the number of full-time faculty positions filled and maintained with the funds allocated for that purpose in the prior fiscal year, the percentage of the funds used in the prior fiscal year, and the cumulative total of the funds used and unused since the initial allocation in fiscal year 2018-19. Each district should also include in the report its progress toward meeting the goal of at least 75 percent of instruction by full-time faculty. |
Pending |
| 4 | To ensure that districts appropriately use the funds designated for hiring full-time faculty, the Chancellor's Office should, by August 2023, implement a policy to annually synthesize the information from the districts into a systemwide report and post it on its public website by January of the following year. |
Pending |
| 5 | To ensure that districts appropriately use the funds designated for hiring full-time faculty, the Chancellor's Office should, by August 2023, implement a policy to verify that the districts are using the funds for their designated purpose. |
Pending |
| 6 | To ensure that districts are performing analyses needed to identify and determine the causes of any underrepresentation in the faculty they hire, the Chancellor's Office should, by August 2023, implement a policy to verify that districts conduct the required demographic analyses of their employment processes. |
Pending |
| 7 | To improve faculty diversity at all districts, the Chancellor's Office should, beginning in fiscal year 2023-24, require districts to implement all of the multiple methods to receive EEO funding, and it should create a process to verify proper implementation of a selection of the methods to ensure compliance and consistency. |
No Action Taken |
| 8 | To improve faculty diversity at districts, the Chancellor's Office should, by February 2024, implement a policy to regularly determine the most effective and feasible best practices for districts to implement. It should then update its multiple methods process to include those selected best practices when it conducts its evaluation of district EEO plans once every three years. |
Pending |