Report 2022-113 Recommendation 6 Responses

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

Recommendation #6 To: Community Colleges Chancellor's Office

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.

6-Month Agency Response

The Chancellor's Office is in the process of formulating and implementing a policy to verify that community college districts conduct the demographic analyses of their employment processes as required in Section 53023 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations. The implementation will align with new requirements in the Education Code which supersede this recommendation. SB 117 (2023) amended Education Code section 87103 to add the requirement that the Chancellor's Office implement a policy, on or before October 1, 2023.

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 finalizes the relevant policy.

60-Day Agency Response

The Chancellor's Office provided an update on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Integration Plan at the March 20, 2023 Board of Governor's Meeting and March 16, 2023 Consultation Council. The update included discussion of recent revisions to regulation, the 2022 EEO/Diversity Best Practices Handbook, revised standards for employee evaluation and tenure review, Pipelines to Possibilities Program, ALIVE Academy, Aspiring Radical Leaders Institute, and additional state resources made available by the Legislature since the Board of Governors adopted the DEIA Integration Plan in 2019. Also shared were upcoming statewide efforts to promote equal employment opportunities through targeted professional development, district grants, and promising practices showcases. In 2023, the Chancellor's Office will continue to present the Representation Matters Webinar Series, host Communities of Practice to support EEO related efforts, support professional development efforts related to culturally responsive pedagogy and practices, and create learning opportunities for all employee classifications through a needs assessment, and host a two-day event in Fall of 2023 to showcase and celebrate the momentum of DEIA and promising campus practices.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

To supplement its response, the Chancellor's Office provided its memo to Community College Districts on the transition to a new EEO program model. This memo explains that districts will need to demonstrate that they have recorded, reviewed, and reported the required data regarding qualified applicant pools. To fully implement this recommendation, the Chancellor's Office will need to finalize and implement a policy to verify that the districts have conducted the required analyses.

All Recommendations in 2022-113

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.