The work of the Legislative
and Governmental Relations Committee is on hiatus.
Committee
Charge The Legislative and Governmental Relations
Committee is responsible for providing the President
with background information on all legislation
related to academic and professional matters.
Through research and analysis, and representation
on appropriate advocacy groups, the Committee
will provide the President and the Executive
Committee with recommendations on such legislation.
The Committee is also responsible for providing
legislative alerts to the local senates, identifying
liaison persons with legislators, and for providing
support to local senates regarding California's
legislative process as it has bearing on academic
and professional matters. It is the goal of the
Committee to provide the President and the Executive
Committee with the resources to ensure that the
Senate is recognized as the voice of authority
with the Legislature and Governor's Office in
the areas of academic and professional matters.
Committee
Membership
The committee is not currently meeting.
Goals and Strategic Plan
for 2005-2006
Goal 1: The
Academic Senate will increase and make more
visible our service to local senates
Outcomes: Increased visibility
of the Academic Senate and local academic
senate to all faculty on the 109 California
Community Colleges
Objectives:
1.1
Examine and improve services to member
senates
Status of Work
1.2
Increase personal contacts with each
campus
1.3
Reach out to new faculty and new faculty
leaders
1.4
Affirm the importance
of strong local senates
Track legislation, focusing
primarily on academic and professional matters,
but also on other issues facing the community
colleges, such as system funding and the
state budget. (Original Committee Charge)
Ongoing. Tracking is done on an ongoing basis,
with updated information included on the
ASCCC legislative webpage.
Oppose the
transfer provision of H.R. 3975 (Hurricane
Regulatory Relief Act of 2005, as of October
6, 2005); and urge local senates to discuss
the impact of this proposed federal mandate
and to take appropriate action. (F05 4.02)
Ongoing. Committee continues to monitor federal
legislation as it affects the transfer credits
of colleges.
Oppose a change
in the 60% law that adversely impacts the
diversity of faculty ranks. (S06 3.03)
New.
Oppose AB 1972
(Daucher) as of March 17, 2006. (S06 6.02)
New.
Oppose the
SB 847 (February 16, 2006) changes to the
60% limitations on teaching loads for part-time
faculty. (S06 6.03)
New.
Oppose changing
the limitation of the teaching load for part-time
faculty above 60%. (S06 19.03)
New.
Oppose increasing
the 60% limit for part-time faculty for any
occupational programs at California’s
community colleges. (S06 20.02)
New.
Goal
2: Strengthen our Leadership in Academic
and Professional Matters on behalf of the
Faculty of California's Community Colleges
Advocate positions
on legislation as directed by resolutions
of the Academic Senate. (Original Committee
Charge)
Ongoing.
At the direction of the ASCCC President, the chair has provided testimony,
based on resolutions and actions of the ASCCC, at several legislative
hearings.
Support legislation that
repeals certain provisions of the Patriot
Act. (F04 13.03)
Ongoing.
Committee will monitor legislation at both the federal and state level.
Advocate and reaffirm with
the Legislature that the faculty has the
primary role and expertise on issues of curriculum
and validation of prerequisites needed for
student success. (F05 6.03)
Ongoing. Argument of faculty primacy in curriculum
is used in testimony and discussions in legislation
regarding curriculum issues.
Share with the Legislature
its concern about AB 1972 and its impact
on full-time tenure track faculty positions,
and encourage legislators to confer with
the Academic Senate in developing bills directed
towards alleviating the state’s nursing
shortage, and work with the Legislature to
implement some of the remedies proposed in
the Academic Senate paper, Status of Nursing
Education in CCC. (S06 6.06)
New.
Assert its conviction that
any federally imposed standardization of
higher education threatens the high quality,
dynamic and innovative system of higher education
that is a central component of American democracy
and an inspiration to freedom loving people
the world over, and oppose any federal attempt
to standardize higher education, and determine
the most effective manner to convey to the
appropriate legislators, intersegmental groups,
and the federal government the opposition
of our 109 colleges and 58,000 professors
to standardization of higher education. (S06
13.01)
New.
Express its concerns that
the change in the 60% law proposed by SB
847 (February 16, 2006) will have a negative
impact upon faculty governance responsibilities.
(S06 19.02)
New.
Call upon the California
State Department of Education to include
and rely primarily upon the expertise and
knowledge of the Early Childhood Education/Child
Development faculty of the California community
colleges in matters pertaining to the development
of an early learning credential, preschool
learning standards, and education of a workforce
for a universal preschool. (S06 19.04)
New.
Urge the California State
Department of Teacher Credentialing to include
and primarily rely upon the expertise of
the Early Childhood Education/Child Development
faculty of the California community colleges
in the development of the early learning
credential, and strongly urge the California
Department of Education to deploy newly created
funds for program development, student support,
and institutional support in direct proportion
to the number of Early Childhood Education/Child
Development students served by each of the
CCC, CSU, and UC systems. (S06 19.05)
New.
Urge the California State
Department of Education, Child Development
Division to include and primarily rely on
the Early Childhood Education/Child Development
faculty of the California Community Colleges
in the development of preschool learning
standards. (S06 19.06)
New.
2.2
Generate resources for
local faculty
Develop legislative
information for the ASCCC website. (Original
Committee Charge, expanded by direction of
Exec Comm)
Ongoing.
With the assistance of the ASCCC Executive Director and Publications Specialist,
we have developed a legislative web page for local senates and have updated
the information as needed.
Deferred.
Chair will work with ASCCC Executive Director
to work on preliminary analysis of the
resolutions to present to the 2006-07 Committee
for status determination.
2.3
Confirm our focus on
students in our decision-making
2.4
Build relationships
with other groups
Develop and strengthen
relationships with members of the Legislature
and Governor's Office. (Original Committee
Charge)
Ongoing.
Contact has been made with several members of the Legislature and Governor’s
Office through attendance at legislative receptions and conferences. Chair
will work with ASCCC President and Executive Director to establish more
contacts.
Work closely with advocates
from all of the System's constituent groups.
(Original Committee Charge)
Ongoing.
Chair attends weekly meetings of the Legislative Advocates, which includes
members from many constituent groups and allows for the exchange and
interchange of information.
Goal
3: The Academic Senate will provide
leadership and professional development
opportunities to faculty and other constituent
groups
Outcomes: Increased number
of informed faculty Objectives:
3.1
Enhance professional
development opportunities
Status of Work
Hold breakouts
on legislative issues for each Plenary session.
(Original Committee Charge)
Ongoing.
In addition to the breakout on legislative issues at each session, a breakout
on legislative advocacy was presented at the Spring 2006 Session.
