Community colleges: nursing faculty.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts, administered by a governing board, throughout the state, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction to students at the community college campuses maintained by the districts. Existing law, under specified circumstances, authorizes the governing board of a district to employ any qualified individual as a temporary faculty member for a complete school year but not less than a complete semester or quarter during a school year. Existing law prohibits employment of a person as a temporary faculty member by any one district for more than 2 semesters or 3 quarters, except that a person serving as full-time or part-time clinical nursing faculty may be employed as a temporary faculty member for up to 4 semesters or 6 quarters within any period of 3 consecutive years between July 1, 2007, and June 30, 2014. Existing law prohibits a district from employing a person pursuant to that nursing faculty exception if the hiring of that person results in an increase in the ratio of part-time to full-time nursing faculty in that district. This bill would revise that exception to authorize the employment of a clinical nursing faculty member as a temporary faculty member for up to the total number of semesters or quarters within any period of 3 consecutive academic years between July 1, 2007, and June 30, 2014. The bill would also delete that hiring limitation that prevents an increase in the ratio of part-time to full-time nursing faculty in a district.