Public postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: campus contact.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on when points of contact must be appointed.

Equity in Higher Education Act: Campus Contact

This act requires California State University and community college districts to appoint an employee at each campus as a point of contact for LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students. It also requests the University of California to do the same.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of a community colleges district to designate an employee at each campus as a point of contact for LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students.
• Requests the Regents of the University of California to designate an employee at each campus as a point of contact for LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students.
• Defines what a branch campus, satellite location, and main campus are in this context.

Who It Names or Affects

• LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students at California State University campuses.
• Community colleges across California.
• The University of California (requested to follow similar guidelines).

Terms To Know

branch campus

A smaller part of a main college or university that is in another location.

satellite location

An additional place where classes are held, separate from the main campus.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify when these points of contact must be appointed.
• It is unclear how many community college districts will need to appoint new contacts based on this act.
• The bill only requests action from the University of California, but requires it for other institutions.

Official Summary Text

SB 1328, as amended, Cervantes.
Public postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: campus contact.
The Equity in Higher Education Act establishes the policy of the state to afford all persons, regardless of specified characteristics, including gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, equal rights and opportunities in the postsecondary educational institutions of the state. The act requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of a community colleges district, and requests the Regents of the University of California, to designate an employee at each of their respective campuses as a point of contact for the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming, intersex, and two-spirit faculty, staff, and students.
This bill would
request the trustees, the regents, and the governing board of a community college district
require the trustees and the governing board of a community college district, and would request the regents,
to also designate an employee as a point of contact for the needs of the above-described faculty, staff, and students of
any satellite, branch, or outreach center of a campus, as specified.
a branch campus, satellite location, or site other than the main campus, as specified. The bill would define “branch campus,” “satellite location,” and “main campus” for this purpose. To the extent the bill would impose new duties on a community college district, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires
the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Current Bill Text

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