(a) As a condition for the receipt of funds pursuant to Section 87107, the governing board of the community college district that opts to participate under the article shall periodically submit to the board of governors an affirmation of compliance with this article, and, to promote faculty diversity, commencing with the 2023–24 academic year, shall implement strategies from the Multiple Methods identified by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Each participating community college district’s equal employment opportunity program shall ensure participation in, and commitment to, the program by community college district personnel. Each participating community college district’s equal employment opportunity plan shall include steps that the community college district will take to eliminate improper discrimination or preferences in its hiring and employment practices. Each plan shall address how the community college district will make progress in achieving the ratio of full-time to part-time faculty hiring, as indicated in Section 87482.6, while still ensuring equal employment opportunity.
(b) Each participating community college district’s equal employment opportunity plan is a public record within the meaning of the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code).
(c) To ensure compliance and consistency in the implementation of this article, on or before January 1, 2024, the chancellor’s office shall create a process to verify each participating community college district’s proper implementation of strategies from the Multiple Methods identified by the chancellor’s office to promote faculty diversity under the community college district’s equal employment opportunity plan.
(d) The chancellor’s office shall, on or before April 1, 2024, implement a policy to regularly determine the most effective and feasible best practices for participating community college districts to promote faculty diversity under their equal employment opportunity plans. The chancellor’s office shall update the Multiple Methods strategies to include the selected best practices for purposes of evaluating each participating community college district’s equal employment opportunity plan once every three years.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 50, Sec. 11. (SB 117) Effective July 10, 2023.)