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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2558
Author: Williams (D)
Amended: 6/18/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/11/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Huff
NO VOTE RECORDED: Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/5/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Community colleges: faculty and staff development
SOURCE : Chancellors Office, California Community Colleges
DIGEST : This bill renames the Community College Faculty and
Staff Development (CCFSD) Fund to the Community College
Professional Development (CCPD) Program and provides that if
funds are appropriated for this purpose, all employees, both
faculty and staff, are eligible to receive professional
development opportunities.
ANALYSIS : The California Community College (CCC) system is
the nation's largest system of higher education, comprised of
112 colleges that serve more than 2.3 million students per year.
Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the
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primary mission of the CCC system is to provide low-cost
post-secondary education for any interested Californian. Its
mission includes providing lower-division academic coursework
that could lead to transfer to four-year colleges,
career-technical education, basic skills education, and
enrichment courses.
Existing law establishes the CCFSD Fund, administered by the
Chancellor's Office of the CCC, to provide state General Fund to
CCCs for the purpose of supporting locally developed and
implemented faculty and staff development programs.
Existing law also authorizes the Board of Governors of the CCC
to annually allocate funds appropriated for development to each
CCC district whose chief executive officer has submitted to the
Chancellor an affidavit that includes:
1.A statement that each campus within the district has an
advisory committee, composed of administrators, faculty, and
staff representatives, which has assisted in the assessment of
the faculty and staff development needs and in the design of
the plan to meet those needs.
2.A campus human development resources plan completed for the
current and subsequent fiscal years.
3.A report of the actual expenditures for faculty and staff
development for the preceding year.
This bill:
1.Renames the CCFSC Fund to the CCPD Program.
2.Provides that the Board of Governors of the CCC shall allocate
funds, when appropriated for the CCPD Program, only to a CCC
district whose chief executive officer has submitted to the
Chancellor an affidavit that includes specified requirements.
3.Provides that any funding appropriated for this program, shall
be allocated to the CCC districts that provide professional
development opportunities to both faculty and staff. Funding
shall be disbursed in accordance with rules and regulations
adopted by the Board of Governors of the CCC.
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4.Provides that CCC districts that receive CCPD Program funds
shall include the employee's time used participating in that
program in the employee's contractually obligated hours.
5.Makes technical and clarifying changes to existing law, as
specified.
Comments
According to the author's office, past support for professional
development has been mixed. The CCFSD Fund and Staff
Development Fund was created in 1988 but budget shortfalls
shifted money away from the fund after 2002. Consequently, few
resources for professional development opportunities have
existed in recent years. Additionally, the author's office
indicates that what little support there has been for
professional development on CCC campuses has been focused
primarily on faculty and not all campus employees, such as
classified and administrative staff, who also strive to ensure a
positive environment for students.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, substantial
cost pressure to fully fund the CCPD Program.
SUPPORT : (Per Senate Education Committee analysis of 6/11/14;
unable to
reverify at time of writing)
Chancellor's Office, California Community Colleges (source)
Association of California Community College Administrators
California Community Colleges Classified Senate
California Community College Council for Staff and
Organizational Development
California Federation of Teachers
Campaign for College Opportunity
Canada College Classified Senate
Citrus College
Community College League of California
De Anza College Classified Senate
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
Fresno City College
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Los Angeles Community College District
Los Medanos College Professional Development Advisory Committee
Los Rios Community College District
San Bernardino Community College District
Santa Rosa Junior College
Sonoma County Junior College District
South Orange County Community College District
Yosemite Community College District
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/5/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande,
Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner,
Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk,
Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Logue, Mansoor, Melendez, Vacancy
PQ:nl 8/16/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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