BILL NUMBER: AB 654	CHAPTERED  10/12/03

	CHAPTER  882
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 12, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 12, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Goldberg

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2003

   An act to add Section 87482.8 to the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 654, Goldberg.  Community colleges:  faculty.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges.  Existing law provides for the employment of
faculty as temporary, contract, or regular employees.  Existing law
requires that a person employed to teach adult or community college
classes for not more than 60% of the hours per week of a full-time
employee having comparable duties, excluding substitute service, be
classified as a temporary employee and not become a contract
employee.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature and various
policy preferences of the Legislature with respect to part-time
community college faculty.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish all
of the following:
   (a) To put a limitation on the total number of student hours
taught by part-time faculty.  These part-time faculty members should
serve less than 25 percent of the full-time equivalent students
(FTES) at any community college.
   (b) Decisions regarding the appropriateness of part-time faculty
should be made on the basis of academic and program needs and not for
financial savings.
   (c) To require that part-time faculty be hired well in advance of
the beginning of instruction, and that only in the event of genuine
emergencies should instructors be hired on shorter notice than one
month before the beginning of instruction.
   (d) To prohibit part-time faculty from being used to provide
teaching or professional services formerly performed by full-time
faculty.  The conversion of full-time positions into several
part-time positions needs to be discontinued.
   (e) To allow part-time faculty the opportunity to participate in
the full range of professional responsibilities, including student
advisement, committee work, and departmental and campuswide faculty
meetings, and to pay them for this involvement.  If a part-time
faculty member prepares a course that is canceled for any reason,
that faculty member should be compensated for that preparation.
   (f) To require that salaries for part-time faculty be
proportionate to the salaries paid to full-time faculty with similar
qualifications who do the same work.
  SEC. 2.  Section 87482.8 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   87482.8.  Whenever possible:
   (a) Part-time faculty should be informed of assignments at least
six weeks in advance.
   (b) Part-time faculty should be paid for the first week of an
assignment when class is cancelled less than two weeks before the
beginning of a semester.  If a class meets more than once per week,
part-time faculty should be paid for all classes that were scheduled
for that week.
   (c) The names of part-time faculty should be listed in the
schedule of classes rather than just described as "staff."
   (d) Part-time faculty should be considered to be an integral part
of their departments and given all the rights normally afforded to
full-time faculty in the areas of book selection, participation in
department activities, and the use of college resources, including,
but not necessarily limited to, telephones, copy machines, supplies,
office space, mail boxes, clerical staff, library, and professional
development.