Evidence of Compliance: 

Since our last accreditation (2018), there has been a significant change in faculty due to retirements, reassignments, and faculty leaving the department. One challenge in replacing full time faculty has been related to the way FTE's are allocated by the CSU System. Once faculty leave, or retire, positions are not replaced automatically, rather, our department must compete with the other needs of the college, and as our enrollment continues to rebound post COVID-19, we have not been awarded positions to replace retirements and departures. Substantial efforts have been made to ensure qualified faculty are teaching our core classes, however due to the limitations for receiving approval to recruit tenure track and full time faculty, as well as reassignments and administrative duties for our department chair, ratios have fallen below 60% as we have begin rebuilding the department.