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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6053
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Bauer, Saling, Rinehart, Stratton, Conner and Sutherland)
Read first time 02/07/92.
AN ACT Relating to community and technical college tenure; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The state board for community and technical colleges shall convene a task force to explore solutions to issues that deter job-sharing in the community and technical college system. The task force shall include but need not be limited to representatives of: Faculty organizations, community and technical college presidents, boards of trustees, persons interested in job-sharing, and the state board. The task force shall submit a report, complete with any recommended legislation, to the governor and the appropriate standing committees of the house of representatives and senate by December 1, 1992.
The issues that the job-share task force shall address include, but need not be limited to:
(1) Issues associated with tenure for job-sharing individuals or job-shared positions;
(2) Methods of determining the eligibility of positions for job-share;
(3) Procedures for establishing or terminating a job-share position, and the issues associated with the dissolution of a job-share position in which one or both holders are tenured faculty members;
(4) Methods for determining the division of work load in order to allow both members of the job-share arrangement to be eligible for state benefits;
(5) Examination of job-sharing arrangements at other institutions of higher education;
(6) Establishment of standardized job-share guidelines for colleges that elect to establish job-share positions;
(7) Examination of the significant differences, if any, between job-share appointments and standard part-time appointments; and
(8) Examination of the issues of faculty advancement or career mobility as they might relate to job-share tenure. An examination of the consequences of the break-up of a job-share arrangement due to the denial of tenure to one party or to the resignation of one party, and the portability of tenure from a job-share arrangement to a full-time position shall be included.