BILL NUMBER: ACR 73	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  121
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 24, 2001
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 16, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 13, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Strom-Martin and Alquist
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Calderon, Cardoza, Chan, Cohn,
Corbett, Dutra, Firebaugh, Goldberg, Havice, Horton, Jackson, Kehoe,
Koretz, Liu, Longville, Lowenthal, Matthews, Negrete McLeod, Pavley,
Reyes, Salinas, Steinberg, Thomson, Vargas, Wesson, Aroner,
Canciamilla, Cardenas, Chavez, Chu, Correa, Diaz, Florez, Frommer,
Harman, Hertzberg, Keeley, Migden, Nakano, Nation, Oropeza, Papan,
Shelley, Simitian, Washington, Wayne, Wiggins, Wright, and Zettel)

                        MAY 15, 2001

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 73--Relative to the California
State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 73, Strom-Martin.  California State University.
   This measure would urge the Trustees of the California State
University to study its faculty hiring practices over the past decade
in order to effectuate improvements in those practices.  The measure
would also urge the trustees, along with the Academic Senate of the
California State University and the California Faculty Association,
to jointly develop a plan to raise the percentage of tenured or
tenure-track faculty to at least 75%, among other prescribed
objectives, and would urge the California State University to provide
a report to the Legislature by May 1, 2002.




   WHEREAS, The faculty of the California State University must
comply with the highest standards of educational achievement,
experience, and professional conduct, as exemplified by the advanced
degrees, and other academic honors, that they have earned; and
   WHEREAS, The appointment of fully qualified faculty members
ensures that the students of the California State University receive
instruction and guidance from individuals with the education,
background, and experience to be recognized as experts in their
fields of academic endeavor; and
   WHEREAS, Tenured and tenure-track faculty bear the primary
responsibility for student advising, program development and
revision, and participation in shared governance; and
   WHEREAS, Before tenure may be awarded to a member of the
California State University faculty, that person must possess a
record of demonstrated excellence in the performance of his or her
professional duties; and
   WHEREAS, Students enrolled at the California State University must
be provided the full range of academic services by the most
qualified faculty members that the university can employ; and
   WHEREAS, While the assigned workload of faculty members in tenure
and tenure-track appointments includes duties related to student
advising, professional development, and the design of curricula, the
assigned workload of faculty members in temporary appointments
generally does not include those duties; and
   WHEREAS, Appointments of faculty to tenured and tenure-track
positions recognize a mutually beneficial relationship that
contributes to the long-term development of the faculty member and
the quality of the instructional program available to California
State University students; and
   WHEREAS, Tenured faculty of the California State University who
have recently retired have often been replaced by faculty members in
temporary appointments rather than by tenure-track faculty; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
urges the Trustees of the California State University to study its
faculty hiring practices over the past decade in order to effectuate
improvements in those practices; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature urges the Trustees of the
California State University, the Academic Senate of the California
State University, and the California Faculty Association to jointly
develop a plan that will accomplish all of the following:
   (a) Raise the percentage of tenured and tenure-track faculty to at
least 75 percent, with the unit of measurement to be developed
jointly by the entities described in this resolved clause.
   (b) Provide that no lecturers currently employed by the university
will lose their jobs as a result of implementing the plan.
   (c) Provide that qualified lecturers will be seriously considered
for tenure-track positions.
   (d) Provide for the continued improvement of faculty diversity;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the California State University is urged to provide
a report outlining the plans developed by the entities described in
the previous resolved clause to the Legislature by May 1, 2002; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Trustees of the California State University,
the Academic Senate of the California State University, and the
California Faculty Association.