Brief Description: Providing for a review and update of the best practices audit of compensation and employment for part-time faculty in technical and community colleges.

Sponsors: Senators Kohl-Welles, Schmidt, Jacobsen, Keiser, Rockefeller, Franklin, Shin, Spanel, McAuliffe and Kline.

Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research & Development
House Committee on Higher Education

Background: The 1996 Legislature passed SB 6583 directing the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) to convene a task force to conduct a best practices audit of compensation packages and conditions of employment for part-time faculty. The Best Practices Task Force reported to the Legislature in January 1997. The best practice principles in the report were required to be used in the development of SBCTC's 1997-99 biennial operating budget request. SBCTC was required to encourage and, to the extent possible, require each local governing board to adopt and implement the best practices principles.

The task force was required to include, at a minimum, part-time faculty, full-time faculty, members of the SBCTC, and members of the community college and technical college governing boards.

Summary: The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) must reconvene the best practices task force to review and update the best practices audit of compensation packages and conditions of employment for part-time faculty. Community college administrators are added to the list of members of the task force. The task force must report its findings to SBCTC by December 1, 2005.

SBCTC must use the best practices principles in the development of each biennial operating budget request. SBCTC must encourage and, to the extent possible, require local governing boards to revise the best practices principles.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate      35   10
House      74   24

Effective: July 24, 2005