Report 2022-113 Recommendation 4 Responses

Report 2022-113: California Community Colleges: Increasing Full-Time Faculty and Diversity Remains a Challenge (Release Date: February 2023)

Recommendation #4 To: Community Colleges Chancellor's Office

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.

6-Month Agency Response

New reporting requirements in Education Code supersede this recommendation. SB 117 (2023) amended Education Code to add sections 87890 through 87894 which outline additional reporting requirements for the Chancellor's Office and for districts as a condition of receiving full-time faculty hiring funds. Education Code section 87892 (a) requires the Chancellor's Office to publish a systemwide report by May 30 annually.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending

We will evaluate whether the Chancellor's Office's implementation of the requirements of SB117 also represent implementation of this recommendation when it publishes the required report.

60-Day Agency Response

Districts annually report their full-time equivalent faculty attributed to both full-time and part-time faculty and these reports are publicly available on the Chancellor's Office website. In addition, district financial reports, including expenditures for salaries and benefits, are audited annually and publicly available on each district's website.

Through the consultative process required by law, the Chancellor's Office will initiate a systemwide conversation to discuss potential revisions to monitoring, oversight, and annual reporting related to full-time faculty hiring funds. Specifically, this topic is included for discussion on the agenda for the May 11, 2023, meeting of the Chancellor's Office Fiscal Affairs Advisory Workgroup.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: No Action Taken

The Chancellor's Office's response indicates that it has not yet initiated actions to implement this recommendation to implement a policy to annually synthesize and report the information recommendation 3 asks the Chancellor's office to require districts to report.

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Agency responses received are posted verbatim.