The positions of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges are presented with respect to professional standards for the hiring, transfer, and professional development of community college faculty. With regard to hiring, the Academic Senate argues that faculty must bear the primary responsibility for hiring new full- and part-time faculty, that appropriate adjustment in workload must be made to allow faculty to participate, and that the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges must provide a statewide mechanism to verify the academic records of applicants. After reviewing minimum employment qualifications for faculty, including a master's degree for academic faculty and a bachelor's degree with four years of appropriate work experience for vocational/technical faculty, the section on hiring presents recommendations for implementing the guidelines. The next section suggests procedures and standards for the transfer of full- or part-time faculty from one teaching discipline to another and for the transfer of administrators to teaching positions. With respect to professional development, the paper asserts that development and renewal opportunities must be provided by the colleges, that faculty who transfer to new disciplines should be provided with reasonable opportunities to develop skills, and that adequate staff development funds should be regularly set aside. Finally, guidelines for faculty evaluation are presented, suggesting that the same criteria should apply to full- and part-time faculty and administrators with teaching responsibilities, and that faculty be involved in tenure decisions. (EJV)