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Wednesday,
June 25
2:00 p.m. Opening Session
and Welcome Kate Clark, Ian Walton
2:30 p.m. Introductions
and Mixer Ian Walton
Get to know your fellow participants and
start a group homework assignment for later
in the program by locating your fellow workers.
3:45 p.m. President's
Address Kate Clark
Learn more about your new Academic Senate
President, Kate Clark, hear some of her
interests and priorities, and check the
latest update on several statewide issues.
4:30 p.m. Preview of Activities Ian Walton
Listen to a short guide to upcoming activities
over the next two days, including the resources
available to you, and receive an assignment
to prepare for Friday.
Thursday,
June 26
8:30
a.m. Basis for Effective Senates Jane Patton, Ian Walton
Review the legal background for local academic
senate participation in governance by examining
Education Code, Title 5, and how it can
be used, cooperatively or not, in interactions
with your local administration and Board.
This is the information you need to be comfortable
in asserting your rights as a local leader.
10:30 a.m. What Do
You Need to Know About the Budget? Kate Clark, Alan Frey
Hear a general overview of everything you
need to know about the budget in this difficult
year. This session will include an update
on state and system budget activities including
the Governor's 03-04 budget, the legislature's
response and the discussions of system workgroups
(for example Faculty Obligation Number).
You will also learn how to obtain and analyze
the financial data filed by your college/district
with the state.
12:00 noon Lunch Participants will sit
with other representatives from their Areas
and discuss local issues and mechanisms
to support each other.
1:00 p.m. To Agree
or Disagree, That is the Question Julie Adams
Participants will take an interactive stand
on a series of controversial issues, and
will attempt to persuade those with opposing
positions to come over to their side. Come
and be vocal.
1:30 p.m. FIRST BREAKOUT
SESSION
Local Leadership Greg Gilbert, Leon Marzillier
Learn the nuts and bolts of local leadership
skills, including parliamentary procedure,
moving an agenda, use of resolutions, Brown
Act, and how to determine when an issue
is academic and professional.
Budget # 2 Alan Frey
This is a local follow-up session to the
morning general session on budget. Alan
will bring budget data specific to your
college/district and will provide an opportunity
for local discussions and questions.
Curriculum and Technology
Dan Crump, Jane Patton
Discuss the growing number of interactions
between technology and curriculum issues
- for example, the newly released distance
education guidelines, information competency,
section 508 accessibility compliance and
the Academic Senate's curriculum web site.
Last year the Task Force on Equity and Diversity
released a report that committed all groups
including local academic senates to promoting
the Board of Governors' broad concerns in
this area. How can we use this work to really
make a difference at the local level?
3:00 p.m. SECOND BREAKOUT
SESSION
Out of Thin Air: Faculty
Development and Instructional Improvement Wanda Morris, Beverly
Shue
Discuss the challenges and opportunities
involved in creating and sustaining meaningful
faculty development in the current situation
of budget reductions or eliminations. What
can the faculty do to take control of the
process and effect instructional improvement?
Occupational Issues
Mark Lieu, Shaaron Vogel
View leadership in occupational education
from two points of view: as a local senate
leader representing occupational colleagues
and as an occupational faculty member involved
in wider leadership. Specific issues include
separate versus integrated models for occupational/academic
representation, high cost/high demand programs
and of course, budget reductions.
Budget # 3 Bob Grill, Ian Walton
This is a follow-up to the two earlier budget
sessions. How should you use your general
budget knowledge in the local political
setting? We will review the Academic Senate's
planning and budget paper and share good
and bad examples of local budget processes.
Issues include Senate involvement in budget
planning, program reduction/discontinuance
and connections with collective bargaining.
Using Technology -
Information is Power Julie Adams, Dan Crump
Technology in general, and the World Wide
Web in particular, provide you with a wealth
of information that can be used to enhance
your effectiveness as a senate leader. Take
a quick, guided tour of what's available
on the Academic Senate's several web sites
and important associated links.
Friday, June 27
8:30 a.m. Plans of
Action Kate Clark, Ken Snell
This will be a brainstorming session to
develop preliminary ideas in response to
the Spring session resolution that called
for the Academic Senate to develop a plan
of action and timelines for political action
that will advance the long-term educational
priorities and improve funding of the community
college system in California.
10:00 a.m. Scenarios
and Guidelines Local Solutions + Q &
A Executive Committee Panel
Participants will report on their group
homework assignment involving the Academic
Senate/CCLC Scenarios on common governance
issues. The expert panel will respond to
local examples and questions of general
interest.
(Opportunity for more specific questions
will happen in the follow-up breakout)
11:30 a.m. Hot Topics Kate Clark and Executive
Committee Panel
The President and expert panel will respond
to current hot issues as identified in your
participant registration material.
Many of the local senate commitments contained
in this year's Equity and Diversity Task
Force Report center on faculty hiring procedures.
Discuss issues such as local hiring process
and revisions, prioritization of faculty
positions, equivalency, termination, administrator
evaluation and retreat rights.
Legislative Issues Dan Crump, Ken Snell
Learn how the Academic Senate addresses
legislative issues in Sacramento, in cooperation
with other faculty groups, and hear the
latest on current hot topics such as the
package of bills coming from the Education
Master Plan report. How could this affect
your rights to participate in governance?
Accreditation Greg Gilbert, Leon Marzillier,
Shaaron Vogel
What should a local senate president be
doing about the new accreditation standards?
Review Academic Senate resolutions and the
Guidelines document issued to the field
this spring. Discuss outcomes measurements
in general and interaction with the statewide
research and planning group.
More Scenarios Mark Snowhite
The Senate/CCLC Scenarios provide a wonderful
resource for common governance issues. Use
this breakout session for in depth discussion,
questions and answers regarding items covered
too briefly in the morning general session
or for scenarios that were not discussed
at all. Bring your local examples to share.
3:00 p.m. FOURTH BREAKOUT
SESSION
The IMPAC Project Wanda Morris, Renee Tuller
The Academic Senate leads the grant-funded
Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated
Curriculum Project in cooperation with our
CSU and UC colleagues. Learn about the history
of this project, its progress to date and
future plans that depend on the participation
of your discipline faculty to improve major
transfer opportunities for students.
Senate/Union Relationships
Bob Grill, Ian Walton
One of the secrets to successful faculty
leadership at the local level is effective
senate/union cooperation. Hear a variety
of techniques to achieve this, and examples
of specific areas for fruitful cooperation
such as calendars, class size, sabbatical
leaves, faculty evaluation and part time
faculty equity.
How ASCCC can help
you? Greg Gilbert, Mark Lieu
Learn about the different ways the Academic
Senate can help you as a local leader -
what ASCCC can and cannot do. Examples include
individual advice, presidential visits,
technical assistance and limited legal support
including the Senate relationship with AAUP.
I'm a new president
- now what do I do? Ken Snell, Shaaron Vogel
This session is designed to provide reassurance
and practical help for the new local senate
president. What are you responsible for?
How should you prioritize? Where can you
get help? Are you already feeling overwhelmed?
Saturday, June 28
10:00 a.m. Featured Speaker Carolyn Russell
The newly appointed faculty member of the
Board of Governors will discuss her role
on the Board and her wider views on faculty
leadership in the state as a cooperative
endeavor.
11:00 a.m. The State
Senate and You Kate Clark, Ian Walton
This session will summarize your experience
over the past two days and review what the
Academic Senate can do for you as a local
leader - and what you can do to assist ASCCC
in its statewide activities on your behalf.
