The hiring of faculty is at the heart of developing and maintaining programs, as well as the success and achievement of students, in all educational systems, and the California Community College System is no exception. While hiring practices may vary in terms of specifics in the 72 community college districts in California, basic principles and tenets of faculty hiring are consistent across the state. In recent years, a focus on diversifying the faculty that are hired at community colleges has increased in intensity, and both the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) and the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) have responded in a range of ways. This paper, in response to Academic Senate Resolution 3.01 (S17), is one of the various avenues through which the ASCCC has responded to the interest in diversifying community college faculty. In addition to serving as a revision of the Fall 2000 paper, this new paper also includes significantly more information about the statewide efforts of both the ASCCC and the CCCCO on hiring more diverse faculty, effective practices for expanding the diversity of hiring pools, and sample language from colleges used in hiring practices and procedures. This paper is divided into multiple sections that are designed to address each aspect of hiring, from the formation of the committee through the process itself, as well as a section on mentoring of new faculty. Appendices offer effective practices from different colleges and information from the Chancellor's Office regarding efforts to diversify faculty in the recent past. [For the 2000 report, "A Re-Examination of Faculty Hiring Processes and Procedures," see ED452899.]