(a) “Academic employee” refers to any employee categorized as an educational administrator or faculty member pursuant to section 53402.

(b) “Accessibility” means a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally and independently as a person without a disability. Although this might not result in identical ease of use compared to that of persons without disabilities, it still must ensure equal opportunity to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of such technology.

(c) “Administrator” means a person who is employed in a position designated by the governing board of the district as having direct responsibility for supervising the operation of, or formulating policy regarding, the administration of non-academic functions of a college or district.

(d) “Anti-Racism” and “anti-racist” refers to policies and actions that lead to racial equity.

(e) “Classified administrator” means any person employed by the governing board of a district in a supervisory or management position as defined in Article 5 (commencing with Section 3540) of Chapter 10.7 of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(f) “Competencies” refer to skills, knowledge, abilities, and behaviors all employees must demonstrate and utilize in interactions with students and colleagues, and the performance of their job duties.

(g) “Criteria” refer to the elements used in employee evaluation and tenure review processes to measure performance.

(h) “Cultural Competency” refers to the practice of acquiring and utilizing knowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic, and other minoritized groups face. The development of cultural competency is a dynamic, on-going process that requires a long-term commitment to learning. In the context of education, cultural competency includes the ability to teach students from cultures other than one's own successfully. It entails developing interpersonal awareness and sensitivities, developing cultural knowledge, and mastering a set of skills for effective cross-cultural teaching.

(i) “DEIA” is an acronym for the terms “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.”

(j) “Diverse” and “diversity” refers to the myriad of ways in which people differ, including the psychological, physical, cognitive, and social differences that occur among all individuals, based on race, sex, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, religion, economic class, education, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, and mental and physical ability.

(k) “Educational administrator” means an administrator who is employed in an academic position designated by the governing board of the district as having direct responsibility for supervising the operation of or formulating policy regarding the instructional or student services program of the college or district. Educational administrators include, but are not limited to, chancellors, presidents, and other supervisory or management employees designated by the governing board as educational administrators.

(l) “Evaluation” refers to a tool to provide and receive constructive feedback to promote professional growth and development.

(m) “Faculty” or “faculty member” means those employees of a district who are employed in academic positions and who are not designated as supervisory or management for the purposes of Article 5 (commencing with Section 3540) of Chapter 10.7 of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Cod. Faculty include, but are not limited to, instructors, librarians, counselors, community college health service professionals, disabled student programs and services professionals, extended opportunity programs and services professionals, and individuals employed to perform a service that, before July 1, 1990, required nonsupervisory, nonmanagement community college certification qualifications.

(n) “Inclusion” refers to bringing traditionally excluded individuals or groups into processes, activities, and decision and policy making in a way that shares power.

(o) “Minoritize” refers to the subordination of a person or group's status to a more dominant group or its members based on social identities such as race or ethnicity.

(p) “Non-academic employee” means any employee categorized as a classified administrator or staff member.

(q) “Staff” or “staff member” means those employees of a district who are not encompassed within the definitions in subdivisions (a), (c), (e), (k), or (m), whether or not they are part of the classified service as defined in sections 88003 or 88076 of the Education Code.