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ACCS reviews tenure policies, employees well represented
August 2021 Alabama School Journal - During the 2021 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature, a bill was introduced to remove future employees of the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) from the protections of the Students First Act. AEA worked with ACCS to transform the bill into Senate Joint Resolution 79, which became Act 2021-231. The act created the Interim Study Commission on Community College Tenure Policies. ACCS has six appointees and AEA has six appointees, including President Brown, a two-year college instructor herself. The Commission is charged with studying how other states’ two-year colleges, and four-year schools in Alabama, handle job protections and due process for their employees. The Commission will also be tasked to develop a recommended policy for ACCS and make recommendations to the legislature by January 1, 2022.
The Commission held its first session on August 5 and tasked the lawyers to collect the necessary information to study other systems. Another meeting will likely be scheduled in the fall to review information from the previous meeting and begin the drafting process. As always, AEA will be front and center regarding any and all discussion. Check back here and upcoming issues of the Alabama School Journal for updates.
Pictured (L to R): William Tunnell, AEA UniServ Manager and
Postsecondary liaison, David T. McKinney, Jefferson State
Community College; Kelvin Jones, Ingram State Technical
College; AEA President Dr. Susan Williams Brown, AEA
Attorney Clint Daughtrey, and Pam Thurman, Calhoun
Community College.