THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. First Breakout Session
1. The General Education Big Top: Ethnic Studies Requirements
2. Local Budget - State Budget: Where Do We
Start?
3. Categorical Cuts: A Catastrophe or a Hurdle
We Can Overcome? (Presentation)
4. Finding Equilibrium as a New Delegate (Presentation)
5. Rules for Engagement
6. Balancing Basic Skills and Equity Issues (Presentation |
Handout)
7. Staff Breakout: Understanding the Brown Act
and Parliamentary Procedure
(Presentation | Handout)
10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Second Breakout Session
1. Empowering Local Senates to Find Equilibrium (Presentation)
2. Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Piloting
New Practices in Establishing Prerequisites (Presentation)
3. Transfer Degrees. Taboo? Or Is It Still Possible
to Design a Degree that Meets the Needs of Transfer
Students? (Presentation | MiraCosta Handout | Pierce Handout | Solano Handout)
4. No Equivalent to a Associate Degree (Presentation | Handout)
5. Burning Accreditation Issues
6. Staff Breakout: Developing a Senate Tool Kit
7.
Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Student Collaboration
11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. First General Session
GENERAL SESSION – Legal Threats to Academic
Freedom and Shared Governance in Higher Education
Lunch
Call to Order/Adoption of the Procedures
2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Third Breakout Session
1. The Ethnicity Data Collection Challenges:
Change We Can't Believe! (Presentation)
2. Walking the Tightwire: Balancing Faculty
Primacy and External Authorities in Curriculum (Presentation)
3. Basic Skills and Noncredit Challenges and
Solutions (Handout
1 | Handout
2)
4. Minimum Qualifications
Equivalency Training (Presentation | Handout | Min
Quals Chart)
5. Protecting the 50% Law and Other Regulations?
6. Senate Resources at Your Service (Presentation)
7. Sustaining our Commitment to Teaching and
Learning
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Second General Session
GENERAL SESSION – Panel Discussion: The Status
of California Community Colleges: Three State Level
Perspectives
4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Resolution Writing
6:00 p.m. Resolutions and Amendments Due
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Reception and Entertainment
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Area Meetings
Breakfast will be provided
10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Fourth Breakout Session
1. Participatory Governance Check Up
2. California Community College Library Standards
for the 21st Century (Presentation)
3. Working Towards an Institutional Assessment
Plan
4. The Future of California's Community Colleges
5. Basic Skills Outcomes and Tipping Points (Presentation)
12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Third General Session
GENERAL SESSION – Keynote Presentation:
Research That Matters to You and Why You Matter
in Research (Presenation)
State of the Senate (Presentation)
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Break
2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Fifth Breakout Session
1. Holistic Solutions to the Budget Mess (Presentation)
2. Strong and Successful - Sustaining Good Leadership
Strategies
3. Update from SACC, The System Advisory Committee
on Curriculum
4. C-ID and LDTP: Intersegmental Approaches to
Articulation
5. Conversation with the President
6. Learning Balance with Our Most Important
Professional Partnes: Student Voices, Student
Views
4:00 p.m. Amendments and Resolutions Due
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fourth General Session
GENERAL SESSION – Hot Topics and Resolutinos
Roundtable Discussions
5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009
7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Breakfast Buffet
7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Final Delegate Sign In
8:20 a.m. Fifth General Session
8:20 a.m. Resolution Presentation
8:25 a.m. Announcements
8:30 a.m. Resolution Voting Begins
12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. Lunch
Secretary’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fifth General Session (continues)
