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Name that Section: Frequently Used Education Code and Title 5 Sections for Community College Districts
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h. Plan Component 8: Training for Screening/Selection Committees
i. Legal Requirements
Title 5 requires district EEO Plans to describe the process for ensuring that district employees
who are to participate on screening or selection committees, or who are involved in recruitment
efforts, receive appropriate training. Pursuant to the revised regulations, this training must cover,
but need not be limited to: the requirements of this subchapter and of state and federal
nondiscrimination laws; the educational benefits of workforce diversity; the elimination of bias
in hiring decisions; and best practices in serving on a selection or screening committee
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Title 5 does not indicate how often training of screening or selection committee members should
occur.
ii. Implementation
Effective training for screening committees and interview panels has proven to be an ongoing
challenge for community colleges. In particular, districts continue to search for how to:
Build committee-wide “buy-in” for the underlying core values that inform
EEO planning;
Sensitize committee members to their own stereotypes and biases;
Strengthen committee members’ “best practices” in the interview and
selection process so as to eliminate bias from the selection process; and
Find time to do it all without bringing hiring to a halt!
To assist districts in developing and delivering training in these areas, below we have included a
separate section on lawful hiring and best practices in hiring. (See Section 5(B)(1-8).) This
section—together with “The Legal Backdrop” (Section 1 above), provides most of the content
for the required screening and selection committee training. What this workbook cannot
provide, however, is training material covering the substance of each district’s unique EEO Plan.
This information must be incorporated by each district.
i. Plan Component 9: Annual Written Notice to Community Organizations
i. Legal Requirements
Section 53003 subdivision (c)(5) requires that districts describe in their EEO Plans a process for
providing annual written notice to appropriate community-based and professional organizations
regarding the EEO Plan and the need for assistance from the community in identifying qualified
applicants. This notice may be delivered electronically.
ii. Implementation
As the overview of the law (Section 1 above) makes clear, district recruitment strategies may
include reaching out to professional organizations and media outlets that target specific
populations—
as long as it is part of an inclusive recruitment strategy
. In other words, there is
no requirement that the outside groups, themselves, must be broad-based. They may target