Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Succession Planning

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Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and
Succession Planning

• Ian Walton President, State Academic Senate
• Randy Lawson - President Chief Instructional
  Officers CIO, Santa Monica College
• Pam Deegan - Immediate Past President, Chief
  Instructional Officers CIO, Mt. San Jacinto
  College

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Issues Covered

• The Problem
• Issues
• Possible Solutions

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The Problem

• A lack of administrators Poor Pools
• Why??
• Salaries and workload of administrators vs.
  faculty members
• STRS- Number of days for denominator
• Rapid change at the top
• AB1725 What it did to the administrative ranks

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More Problems

• CC Faculty vs. Administration (the dark side)
  attitude/different relationship in UC/CSU
• Lack of free movement in CCs between faculty
  and administrative roles

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Rapid Change at the Top

• 1/3 of CIOs brand new
• New deans often not coming via traditional route

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Average President stays at an institution for
approximately

• As of 2006, the average tenure for a California
  Community College president is 4.4 years.
• That is down from 2002 where the average tenure
  was 5.5 years.
• Meanwhile the average tenure in the United States
  is 10 years.

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Impact of AB1725

• What if you want/need to retreat??
• Retreat rights as untenured, first-year faculty
  member
• Salary placement
• Possibly at new-faculty years experience at
  present institution
• Possible loss of life-time benefits

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Example

• If Pam had stayed as faculty member at original
  community college
• Tenured faculty member
• Step 28 on pay scale
• work 9 months
• work week on campus 15 hours in classroom 5
  office hours 1 committee hour
• Lifetime benefits

• If Pam went back to classroom last year
• Untenured, 1st year probationary faculty member
• Step 7 5 on pay scale
• No lifetime benefits

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Another Example

• If Randy goes back as a faculty member at his
  college, he would
• be a tenured faculty member
• Step 26 on pay scale
• work 9 months
• work week on campus 15 hours in classroom 5
  office hours 1 committee hour
• Lifetime benefits

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Concerns

• Concerns are shared by faculty
• They feel lack of stability
• Dealing with inexperienced deans, etc.

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Possible Solutions

• Content Training (helps, but doesnt solve
  problem at its genesis)
• ACCCA
• CIOS
• CSSOs
• CCLC
• CCLDI

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• Administrative rights (Faculty too?)
• Portable benefits
• Years experience?
• Tenure?
• Centralized Benefits?
• New Interview Process??

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Ideas?? Lets Think!
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Where Do We Go From Here?