California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 6 - California Community Colleges › Chapter 4 - Employees › Subchapter 1 - Definitions › Section 52510 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to this
					 chapter.
(a) "Academic employee"
				  refers to any employee categorized as an educational administrator or faculty
				  member pursuant to section
				  53402.
(b) "Accessibility" means a person with a
				  disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage
				  in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a
				  disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with
				  substantially equivalent ease of use. The person with a disability must be able
				  to obtain the information as fully, equally and independently as a person
				  without a disability. Although this might not result in identical ease of use
				  compared to that of persons without disabilities, it still must ensure equal
				  opportunity to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the
				  technology and equal treatment in the use of such technology.
(c) "Administrator" means a person who is
				  employed in a position designated by the governing board of the district as
				  having direct responsibility for supervising the operation of, or formulating
				  policy regarding, the administration of non-academic functions of a college or
				  district.
(d) "Anti-Racism" and
				  "anti-racist" refers to policies and actions that lead to racial
				  equity.
(e) "Classified
				  administrator" means any person employed by the governing board of a district
				  in a supervisory or management position as defined in Article 5 (commencing
				  with Section
				  3540) of Chapter 10.7 of Division 4
				  of Title 1 of the Government Code.
(f) "Competencies" refer to skills,
				  knowledge, abilities, and behaviors all employees must demonstrate and utilize
				  in interactions with students and colleagues, and the performance of their job
				  duties.
(g) "Criteria" refer to the
				  elements used in employee evaluation and tenure review processes to measure
				  performance.
(h) "Cultural
				  Competency" refers to the practice of acquiring and utilizing knowledge of the
				  intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that
				  people from different racial, ethnic, and other minoritized groups face. The
				  development of cultural competency is a dynamic, on-going process that requires
				  a long-term commitment to learning. In the context of education, cultural
				  competency includes the ability to teach students from cultures other than
				  one's own successfully. It entails developing interpersonal awareness and
				  sensitivities, developing cultural knowledge, and mastering a set of skills for
				  effective cross-cultural teaching.
(i) "DEIA" is an acronym for the terms
				  "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility."
(j) "Diverse" and "diversity" refers to the
				  myriad of ways in which people differ, including the psychological, physical,
				  cognitive, and social differences that occur among all individuals, based on
				  race, sex, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, religion, economic
				  class, education, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, and mental
				  and physical ability.
(k)
				  "Educational administrator" means an administrator who is employed in an
				  academic position designated by the governing board of the district as having
				  direct responsibility for supervising the operation of or formulating policy
				  regarding the instructional or student services program of the college or
				  district. Educational administrators include, but are not limited to,
				  chancellors, presidents, and other supervisory or management employees
				  designated by the governing board as educational administrators.
(l) "Evaluation" refers to a tool to provide
				  and receive constructive feedback to promote professional growth and
				  development.
(m) "Faculty" or
				  "faculty member" means those employees of a district who are employed in
				  academic positions and who are not designated as supervisory or management for
				  the purposes of Article 5 (commencing with Section
				  3540) of Chapter 10.7 of Division 4
				  of Title 1 of the Government Cod. Faculty include, but are not limited to,
				  instructors, librarians, counselors, community college health service
				  professionals, disabled student programs and services professionals, extended
				  opportunity programs and services professionals, and individuals employed to
				  perform a service that, before July 1, 1990, required nonsupervisory,
				  nonmanagement community college certification qualifications.
(n) "Inclusion" refers to bringing
				  traditionally excluded individuals or groups into processes, activities, and
				  decision and policy making in a way that shares power.
(o) "Minoritize" refers to the subordination
				  of a person or group's status to a more dominant group or its members based on
				  social identities such as race or ethnicity.
(p) "Non-academic employee" means any
				  employee categorized as a classified administrator or staff member.
(q) "Staff" or "staff member" means those
				  employees of a district who are not encompassed within the definitions in
				  subdivisions (a), (c), (e), (k), or (m), whether or not they are part of the
				  classified service as defined in sections
				  88003 or
				  88076 of
				  the Education Code.
1. New
					 subchapter 1 (section
					 52510) and section filed 3-17-2023;
					 operative 4-16-2023. Submitted to OAL for filing and printing only pursuant to
					 Education Code 70901.5 (Register 2023, No. 14).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						66700,
						70901 and
						87001,
						Education Code. Reference: Sections
						87001,
						87002,
						87003,
						88003 and
						88076,
						Education Code.