Faculty Leadership Institute
2004 Program and Presentations
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Wednesday,
June 23
2:30 p.m. Opening Session
and Welcome
Kate Clark and Leon Marzillier
2:45 p.m. Panel Overview:
Faculty as Professionals
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and Ken Snell
Professional, rationale,
responsible, forthright, honest, committed
to students and their community: that describes
the community college faculty we know and
admire. And how do we as faculty exemplify
and nurture these traits in our own leadership?
This panel will preview thematic issues
to be explored at this institute and suggest
strategies they would have us consider.
4:15 p.m. Getting to
Know You Local Senates Committee Members
7:15 p.m. What Do You Need to Know? Right-click (MAC:
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Kate Clark and Executive Committee Members
Following a keynote conversation with the
Academic Senate President who will alert
you to present and emerging hazards in the
road ahead this year, Executive Committee
Members will join her to answer questions
and respond to hot button issues you have
identified.
Thursday,
June 24
8:30 a.m. Basis for
Effective Senates Mark Wade Lieu and Ian Walton Right-click (MAC: control+click)
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This session will review the legal bases
for local academic senate participation
in governance, examining the appropriate
Education Code and Title 5 sections. It
will also consider how these can be used
in real life, cooperatively or not, in your
leadership interactions with your local
administration and board of trustees. This
information should increase your comfort
level and effectiveness in asserting your
rights as a local leader.
10:30 a.m. Featured
Speaker Sondra Saterfield
The most recent faculty member appointed
to the Board of Governors will discuss her
role on the Board and her wider views on
faculty leadership as she has observed it.
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: Do
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"Disciplines Overview"
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explains the various roles faculty play
in establishing statewide minimum qualifications
for faculty and applying those qualifications
at the local level. It outlines the duties
of the statewide Academic Senate in determining
minimum qualifications for faculty expressed
in the Disciplines List. It also includes
information about two important responsibilities
of local academic senates: (1) developing
policies and practices for determining equivalencies
when applicants do not possess the exact
minimum qualifications for hire specified
by the Disciplines List, and (2) placing
the courses the college offers in a discipline.
Finally, it provides relevant facts about
Faculty Service Areas (FSAs) including how
these may affect competency to teach particular
courses.
Greg Gilbert and Mark
Snowhite
According to the Education Code, the
local academic senate works jointly
with the local governing board to establish
policies and practices for hiring faculty. Those
policies define faculty’s role in specifying
criteria beyond minimum qualifications and
call for a process to determine equivalencies.
Yet, in recommending FSA designations to
the local board, the senate must confer
with the local bargaining unit. Thus, it
is imperative that local senates understand
the laws, regulations, and Academic Senate-recommended
practices to ensure they meet their consultative
obligations—and hire effectively.
Occupational Issues
Jane Patton and Shaaron Vogel
Do you know what vocational programs you
have on your campus, and are your vocational
faculty active on your campus’ committees?
Vocational programs and the faculty who
teach them have unique concerns regarding
curriculum, program development and discontinuance,
funding and budget issues, and more.
This is an opportunity to learn about papers
and resolutions regarding vocational issues
that impact your campus and faculty participation.
Summary:
Jane Patton gave samples of Program Discontinuance
Policies and reminded attendees that their
college is required to have a policy in
place. Senates must take a leadership role
in developing a policy. She gave the audience
an update about the state-wide discussions
about degree requirements and explained
that a paper written by the curriculum committee
will be distributed in the Fall, for discussion
before the Fall Plenary Session, where presumably
resolutions will be presented. Local senates
should ensure they are discussing the issues.
Local Faculty Ethics
Dan Crump and Leon Marzillier
Issues of integrity on the campus are at
the heart of this breakout. The AAUP statement
on academic freedom and faculty ethics,
principles also adopted and augmented by
the Academic Senate, will be discussed.
How does your local senate promote faculty
ethics, and how does it ensure faculty ethics
when conflicts arise? Join this discussion.
Senate-Student Relationships Right-click (MAC:
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Wanda Morris and Ian Walton
This session will begin by considering students’
regulatory role in local participatory governance
compared with that of faculty. Student leaders
can be natural allies for faculty leaders;
what, though, is the senate’s obligation
to this constituency? Participants are encouraged
to share local examples of successful and
unsuccessful attempts at cooperation with
student leaders. The role of student leadership
classes and student advisors will also be
discussed.
3:00 p.m. SECOND BREAKOUT
SESSION
Finding What you Need
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Research, and Information Systems, California
Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
As academicians, we appreciate
the raw power of information, of data, of
the analysis that follows. Vice-Chancellor
Perry will show us how we can bulk up on
the information needed to shape senates’
budgeting, planning, and hiring recommendations.
Demonstrating “Data Mart,” he
will reveal how information at our fingertips
can also empower our decision-making and
our recommendations in such matters as student
success and curriculum.
Friday, June 25
8:30 a.m. Local Leadership:
Do You Communicate Effectively? Kate Clark, Bob Grill, Leon Marzillier,
Jane Patton, and Mark Snowhite
So how long has it been since you took a
public speaking class? How comfortable are
you in negotiating contentious discussions?
Can you convey a position and listen effectively?
As a senate leader, your presentation skills
are more important than ever. This
session will refresh your memory about what
to do—and not to do—when you must
successfully represent faculty. This series
of presenters will offer suggestions on
effective public speaking, on moving a meeting
efficiently, and on working collaboratively
with other faculty partners.
Summary:
Jane Patton
presented the "Top 10 Mistakes that
Speakers Make" when they give presentations.
She reminded the audience that their success
as a leader may depend on their communication
skills and that good communication is really
needed all the time—not just in formal
speaking situations.
10:30 a.m. Legal Resources
and Legal Protection? Wanda Morris and Representatives from
South Orange CCD
Having heard about the legal bases for local
and state academic senates, and having heard
the clarion call for faculty ethics, you
will now be alerted to what can go awry
and why local senates must be scrupulous
in all actions they undertake.
11:30 a.m. Scenarios
and Guidelines Local Solutions + Q &
A Bob Grill, Leon Marzillier, Shaaron
Vogel and Ian Walton
The panel will respond to your homework
assignment on governance scenarios that
you turned in at registration. They
will highlight interesting local examples
you provided and compare those local examples
with the “official solutions”
contained in the Academic Senate/CCLC document,
“Participating Effectively in District
and College Governance,” contained
in your binder.
1:30 p.m. THIRD BREAKOUT
SESSION
Using Senate Resources
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Julie Adams
This breakout will introduce you to various
agencies and venues available to assist
you in your leadership capacities. Executive
Director Julie Adams will present information
on primary resources, including ASCCC itself;
online surveys and analysis programs (e.g.,
SurveyMonkey.com); potential for conducting
elections/voting over the internet; and
other mechanisms to aid local academic senates
in their functions.
Legislative Issues
and your Local Senate Dan Crump and Ken Snell
The Academic Senate addresses legislative
issues in Sacramento, in cooperation with
other faculty and constituency groups. In
this session, you will hear the latest on
current hot legislative topics such as student
fees, textbook pricing, concurrent enrollment,
UC/CSU transfer and redirection of students,
common course numbering, nursing admissions,
and community college finance and governance.
You will also learn how—and why—to
become involved with our work within your
local senates.
Developing Faculty
Leadership: Looking in All the Right Places
Kate Clark and Shaaron Vogel
Identifying faculty to participate actively
on campus committees and to assume leadership
roles can be challenging; too often, it
seems as if we have the same few faculty
doing everything and others doing nothing.
Let’s share strategies on how to seek
out, find and develop new leadership on
your campus. Learn how the Academic Senate
is here to help you in this effort.
Student Equity Plans
Wanda Morris and Beverly Shue
In response to Title 5 Section 51026, each
community college is responsible for updating
its Student Equity Plan. The goal of this
plan is to ensure all equity groups have
the opportunities necessary for their success.
Our new Chancellor has decreed that these
plans “will not sit on some shelf,”
that they will result in concrete actions
and changes on our campuses. This breakout
will offer strategies for you to engage
your campus in developing or genuinely revising
the equity plan at your institution—due
January 2005.
3:00 p.m. FOURTH BREAKOUT
SESSION
Intersegmental Activities
and the Local Senate Right-click (MAC:
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Improving transfer for our students has
become an ever-more important goal, especially
given diminished capacity at UC and CSU
campuses and incidents of university impaction.
As a senate leader, you will be expected
to promote efforts or processes that strengthen
students’ transfer to four-year institutions.
Three statewide efforts that you should
know about are IMPAC, CAN, and ASSIST. This
session will provide information about how
such projects help your students succeed
and how potential changes in their offerings
may require your attention this year.
Academic Integrity Leon Marzillier and David Yee
Issues of integrity extend beyond the board
to the most local arena—the class.
Raising both the students’ and faculty’s
points of view, this breakout will examine
both the philosophical context (what role
does the senate have in creating and maintaining
an ethical academic environment) and the
practical expression (what strategies might
faculty recommend to combat all forms of
“cheating”).
Your Senate and Curriculum
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Greg Gilbert and Beverly
Shue
Curriculum is arguably the most important
function a senate oversees, especially since
course and program offerings are the principal
reasons for students attending your college.
Understanding a bit more about the Education
Code and the shift from community colleges
as a K-14 entity to a higher education partner
will enable you to understand your local
senates’ responsibility for and oversight
of curriculum quality and prepare you for
radical changes now being proposed.
Curriculum and Technology
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Bob Grill and Mark Wade Lieu
As more classes incorporate an online component
and as more classes are offered in a distance
mode, faculty must be aware of regulations
and laws related to using computer and video
technology in instruction. It is particularly
crucial for senates because of their curriculum
oversight obligations. The presenters will
examine the nexus of technology and curriculum
issues, including the newly released distance
education guidelines, information competency,
Section 508 accessibility compliance, and
the Academic Senate’s Curriculum web
site.
Saturday, June 26
10:00 a.m. “It’s
the Funding, Stupid” Alan Frey
Learn from a general overview what you need
to know about the budget for 2004-05. Then
be entertained as Professor Frey focuses
on your college/district, showing you how
to obtain and analyze the financial data
filed with the state by your college. This
nuts-and-bolts presentation, combined with
earlier general sessions on where to find
data, will help you prepare for the fiscal
challenges we all face this year.
11:00 a.m. The State
Senate and You Kate Clark
These brief remarks will highlight our experiences
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 the statewide activities we undertake
on your behalf.
12:00 noon Closing
Remarks and Ceremony Leon Marzillier, Local Senates Committee
Members, Executive Committee
