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AGENDA ITEM BACKGROUND
TO: GOVERNING BOARD
DATE
FROM: PRESIDENT
June 11, 2012
SUBJECT:
Board Policy Revisions: Office of Instruction, First Reading
REASON FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION
INFORMATION
ITEM NUMBER
ENCLOSURE(S)
Page 1 of 4
D.6
BACKGROUND:
The District is in the process of revising Board Policies utilizing the California Community College
League’s model policies as applicable. These Board Policies have been reviewed by the appropriate
committees on campus including Instruction Council, Student Services Council, Faculty Senate, and
Academic Council.
Attached are revisions to some of the Board Policies in the Instruction component as listed below:
Board Policy
BP 3300 Learning Resource Materials Selection and Retention
BP 5105 Faculty Search and Selection Procedures
BP 5130 Certificated Employee Tenure Policy
Action
Update to reflect League language
Update to reflect League language
Update to reflect League language
Board policies are presented as a first reading for Governing Board review and will return for action
at the next Governing Board meeting.
Administrator Initiating Item:
Wanda Garner, Dean, NAS
Kathie Welch, Dean, HAWK
Academic and Professional Matter
If yes, Faculty Senate Agreement
Senate President Signature
x Yes No
x Yes  No
Final Disposition
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LEARNING RESOURCE MATERIALS SELECTION AND RETENTION BP 3300
Recognizing that education is more than exposure through lectures and other classroom
experiences to the knowledge, ideas and values of society, and that the full range of
exploration of the fields of knowledge includes classroom learning, self directed study and
reading, and individualized instructional resources, it is the policy of the Governing Board
that the college shall make available in the library and in the learning center well-rounded
collections of print and non-print learning materials which provide to students and staff:
1. curriculum support
2. general information
3. personal and recreational reading
4. materials for professional growth
5. cultural enrichment
The selection and retention of learning resource materials is the responsibility of the
College LibrarianLibrary Director and the librarian faculty, with the approval of the
Superintendent/President under authorization of the Governing Board. The College
LibrarianLibrary Director and librarians will be aided by receive input from the faculty,
administration, staff and students in determining items for addition to and deletion from
the collections, in accordance with the current scope of the collection.
Legal Reference: Education Code Sections 1800 and 18172.
Adopted: April 4, 1988
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FACULTY SEARCH AND SELECTION PROCEDURES
BP 5105
The goal of the faculty selection process at Cabrillo College is to hire faculty who are
experts in their subject area, who are skilled in teaching and serving the needs of a
diverse student population, who can foster overall college effectiveness, and who are
sensitive to ethnic and cultural diversity in the community. Moreover, it will be the
objective of the District to have a faculty reflecting the ethnic and cultural diversity of the
college district. The Cabrillo College District recognizes that faculty hiring procedures
and guidelines are important to ensure the maintenance of a faculty of the highest quality.
Though principal legal responsibility and authority rest with the College Governing
Board, the college administration and faculty share with the Governing Board the
responsibility for ensuring an effective and legal hiring process. Development of the
procedures and guidelines are likewise the shared responsibility of the Governing Board
through the administration, and faculty through the Faculty Senate. These procedures and
guidelines have been developed with the intention to maintain diversity of committee
membership, and objectivity, fairness, and consistency in the treatment of applicants.
These procedures and guidelines recognize that responsibility for selecting well-qualified
faculty is shared cooperatively by faculty members and administrators. These shared
responsibilities include: following District policies, developing job descriptions,
equivalencies, and local qualifications, recruiting, screening, interviewing, and selecting
the recommended candidates. Screening, selection, and recommendations shall be strictly
confidential. In order to achieve the objective of establishing a faculty reflecting the
ethnic and cultural diversity of the community, the hiring processes shall adhere to
the priniciples of equal employment opportunity and college’s diversity values shall
be observed in all hiring processes.
Legal Reference: AB 1725, Section 4
Adopted: May 7, 1990
Revised: June 3, 2002
Revised: November 14, 2005
Revised:
November 2009
Revised June 2012
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CERTIFICATED EMPLOYEE TENURE POLICY
BP 5130
Any contract employee whose assignment requires certification qualifications, and who has
successfully completed four consecutive years as a contract employee, and is re-employed
for a fifth consecutive year as a regular employee, shall be classified as a regular employee
for all subsequent years and is deemed to have attained tenure.
Administrative regulations regarding the attainment of regular certificated employment
status shall be followed in all employment transactions as prescribed in part one of the
Cabrillo College District Personnel Procedures Manual.
Legal Reference: Education Code Section 87609.
Adopted: April 4, 1988
Revised: June 2012