Committee
Charge
The Relations with Local Senates Committee serves
to augment the work of the Executive Committee
in its efforts to provide an opportunity to share
information on issues of concern at the local
and state levels. While members of the Relations
with Local Senates Committee should be conversant
with pertinent statutes and strategies for effective
academic senates, their work will be primarily
as liaisons and conduits for information and
requests for assistance.
Membership
2007-2008
Shaaron Vogel, Chair, Butte College Area A: Julie Bruno, Sierra College and Rick Santos,
Fresno City College Area B: Cathy Cox, Mission College and Laura Lema,
DVC Area C: Tom Rosdahl, LA Pierce College and Eloise
Crippens, West LA Area D: Gary Menser, Victor Valley College and
Cheryl Stewart, Coastline College
Meeting
Dates May 9, 2008: CCC Confer
call 3:00-5:00pm (Minutes)
April 17, 2008: Spring Session
at Westin San Francisco 6:30-8:00pm (Minutes)
March 13, 2008: CCC Confer call 5:00-7:00pm
(Minutes)
February 29, 2008: CCC Confer call
3:00-5:00pm (Minutes)
January 12, 2008: Saturday at Westin San Francisco
12:30 to 4:00pm (Minutes)
December 13, 2007: CCC Confer call
3:00-5:00pm (Minutes)
November 9, 2007: CCC Confer call
3:30-5:00pm (Minutes)
November 2, 2007: Fall Session
at Anaheim Marriott 6:30-8:00pm (Minutes)
October 12, 2007: CCC Confer call 3:30-5:00pm
(Minutes)
September 29, 2007: In Person 11:30-3:00pm
(Minutes)
September 23, 2007: CCC Confer call 7:00-8:00pm
(Minutes)
August 24, 2007: CCC Confer call 3:00-4:15pm
(Minutes) Click
here to see the Relations with Local Senates
minutes archive.
Goals and
Strategic Plan for 2007-2008 (Click
here to download the strategic plan in Word)
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
Res.
No.
Status and
Priority
Publicize successful local
senate activities in Senate publications,
the Senate website and at plenary sessions.
Exec action, 09/04
Ongoing. Moderate
At Leadership and session ask local senate
Presidents for successful activities on
their campus and share this information
in a Rostrum article. This data many help
with other resolutions.
Explore ways to identify or provide experts
on topics (e.g., budget, accreditation,
professional development) as a resource
for local senates, thereby providing much
needed continuity and stability for local
senates.
S05 1.04
Ongoing. High
Explore offering regional meetings to meet
local senates needs without having to
visit each individual college as this
is not feasible. Have offerings at session,
Leadership and Accreditation Institute.
Research and document the
range of assistance available to local senates
for problems in shared governance, fiscal
and legal challenges, and others;
determine where the current needs of local
senates are not being addressed by existing
forms of assistance;
recommend what types of assistance need to be put into place to meet unfilled
needs; and share with local senates the range of assistance and the processes
for requesting each type of assistance.
S06 1.02
In Progress. Moderate
Current committee will get copies of this
survey noted in last year’s report.
(A survey was developed to assess the use
of various resources by local senates,
to identify additional resources, and to
identify unmet needs.) The survey will
be administered in Spring 2008. The results
will be used to update the ASCCC website.
Upon identification of unmet needs, the
committee will determine how to proceed.
Provide guidance to local
senate leaders to ensure that they have the
knowledge they need to participate in governance
effectively at the local level and work with
the groups representing the Chief Instructional
Officers, Chief Student Services Officers
and the College Presidents, and with the
Student Senate for California Community Colleges,
to develop a proactive approach to participatory
governance, such as providing training designed
to highlight the benefits of engaging in
collegial consultation and identifying best
practices that facilitate effective participatory
governance at the local level.
S 07 1.02
In Progress. High
Explore offering joint one day sessions with
key groups who share our interest such
as CEO, CIO, CCCAOE, ACCA, and CCCL. These
could be regional. This would avoid the
image that a ‘tech Assist’ has
for many and yet get the critical information
out there and stimulate dialogue.
1.2
Increase personal contacts with each
campus
Continue the initiative of regular visits
by Local Senate members, as well as Executive
Committee members, to meetings of local
senates in their areas. Special outreach
should be made to newly incorporated senates.
Compile information from these visits and
report to the Executive Committee.
Exec action,
Charge 10.01
S00 17.05
Ongoing. High
A new senate visits list will begin and members asked to participate. Continue
with efforts made to ensure that those colleges not recently visited were given
highest priority.
Update and revise talking points for visits
to local senates.
Exec Action
09/04
Ongoing. High
Will update handout at year’s start
and share with local senates. Ensure handout
is available at our website.
1.3
Reach out to new faculty and new faculty
leaders
Encourage and support local funding for
participation of new senate leaders in
plenary sessions and institutes.
S01 17.01
Ongoing (Standing
Resolution. Moderate
In coordination with President, Executive
Director and Budget Committee, extend support
for participation through scholarships and
discussions with local administrations.
Explore the development of additional
resources and delivery methods for leadership
training.
S06 1.03
In Progress.
Moderate
CCCConfer is being explored as a vehicle
for the delivery of leadership training,
possibly as means of sharing some presentations
from the ASCCC Leadership Institute.
1.4
Affirm the
importance of strong local senates
Research the strengths
and weaknesses of multi-college districts,
particularly as they affect senates, time
and effort of faculty, duplication of governance,
implementation of governance as required
by the Legislature, and other areas; and
collect and report on the effective practices
for functioning in a multi-college district
by the Fall 2007 Plenary Session.
S06 13.05
In Progress. Moderate
Possible survey of multi-college districts
at session to gather data. To be addressed
in a breakout at the Spring 2008 Plenary
Session/or a panel discussion and in a
Rostrum article.
Goal
2: Strengthen our Leadership in Academic
and Professional Matters on behalf of the
Faculty of California's Community Colleges
Outcomes: Increased external
recognition
Objectives:
2.1
Serve faculty
who serve students
Res.
No.
Status and
Priority
Encourage local
colleges to identify mechanisms for involving
students in campus committees early and effectively;
research and share best practices with respect
to facilitating such involvement.
F05 20.01
Ongoing. Low
Work with the Student Senate to generate
ideas and share these at breakouts at the
Student Senate Session, Accreditation Institute,
spring session and in Rostrum article.
Voice opposition to the
attempts to restrict academic freedom by
the Bruin Alumni Association and other organizations;
and notify community college faculty about
the Bruin Alumni Association’s activities,
about Education Code §78907, and caution
faculty to be vigilant to all attempts to
restrict academic freedom at their colleges.
S06 13.02
Ongoing. Low
Work with the AAUP and other groups to monitor
for attacks upon academic freedom. E-mail
local senate presidents of such events.
Encourage letter writing in opposition
to legislature or group who begin such
attacks.
Work to educate local senates,
all other appropriate groups/organizations,
and individuals about its role in appointing
faculty as representatives to statewide committees
that seek a faculty representative in order
to ensure that such representatives are familiar
with the positions adopted by the Academic
Senate as the representative body for the
faculty regarding academic and professional
matters.
S07 1.03
Ongoing. Moderate
Explore which groups are violating this key
principle and offer them an opportunity
to meet with a State Senate representative.
Provide them with materials to help educate
them about the role of the Senate. Possibly
write a letter to repeat offenders.
2.2
Generate
resources for local faculty
Maintain and update the
Local Senates Profile form and spreadsheet,
including the status of delegation of authority
and policies and processes for collegial
consultation. Revise as necessary to increase
accuracy and utility.
Exec action, 09.04
In progress. Low
Ensure forms at website are updates and review
ability to expand data at this site.
Work to provide
summaries and checklists on effective practices
on Senate website.
F05 1.02
Ongoing. High
Utilize our Local Senates Handbook for Effective
Practices and at Leadership and Session
ask local Senates what information would
best help them. Develop a summary/checksheet
that can be placed on the website.
Survey colleges
to investigate different approaches and processes
for how each institution determines faculty
reassigned/released time; and report to the
body at a future date.
F05 1.03
Ongoing. High
Consider a possible survey to research reassign
time and how it is done at local senate
level and do a Rostrum article and breakout
with the results.
Create an easily
accessible online database of sample policies
and procedures developed by individual California
community colleges that includes, but is
not limited to, the following: participatory
governance, academic freedom, professional
ethics of faculty, student conduct and academic
honesty, curriculum development, program
introduction and discontinuance, faculty
hiring, planning and budgeting process, accreditation,
students’ rights and responsibilities;
and ask local senates to submit examples
of some of their best policies and procedures
each fall to share and place in the database.
S06 1.04
In Progress.
Low
Information on policies and procedures was
collected as part of the resources survey
and will be made available on the ASCCC website.
Will ask Michelle for these results. Local
senates were asked to provide URLs for various
documents of interest. F/U on the website
and if colleges are adding URLs. Perhaps
facilitate this process.
Survey local colleges to
determine when they rely primarily upon and
mutually agree on each of the 10+1 academic
and professional matters and report the findings.
F06 1.02
In Progress. Low
Survey local senates at Fall session 2007
with a turn around survey. Do a follow-up
Rostrum article and do more at Leadership.
Conduct research and investigate
good practices for local colleges interested
in forming new local and/or district academic
senates;
create and distribute materials to faculty
at colleges that are developing new colleges
and academic centers that will aid them in
this process; and consider joining with other
statewide faculty and administrator organizations,
and with the Student Senate for California
Community Colleges, to explore developing
instructions to guide local senates in establishing
effective participatory governance policies
at new colleges and academic centers and
bring these good practices back to a future
plenary session.
S07 1.01
In Progress. Low
Explore offering joint one day sessions with
CEO, CIO, and CCLC in regions to address
common issues and questions that arise
when developing new colleges or centers.
Also include the Student Senate in these
presentations.
2.3
Confirm
our focus on students in our decision-making
Encourage local senates
to advocate for the maintenance of both student
equity and transfer data on their student
participants in honors programs; and
Urge local senates to work with administrators
and faculty who oversee these programs to
find ways to encourage all qualified students
to participate in their programs and disseminate
information on best practices regarding honors
programs.
S07 3.01
In Progress. Moderate
Work with the Student Senate to offer breakouts
at both the Student Senate Session and
ASCCC sessions on this issue. Use survey
results gathered by the Diversity committee
on this issue to find colleges with best
practices and share this at these breakouts.
Survey the field regarding
alternative calendars in the most expedient
fashion to aid colleges in their decision
making and provide information on colleges
that have adopted alternative calendars and
their outcomes in a current position paper
to include best practices as soon as possible.
S01 13.04
In Progress. Low
Gather the survey results from previous surveys
about alternative calendars. Consider writing
a white paper or revising the Alternative
Calendars paper (2000) to provide more
guidance in the discussion about this issue.
2.4
Build relationships
with other groups
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
Res.
No.
Status and
Priority
Organizing
and staging the annual ASCCC Leadership Institute
Exec Action
09/04
Ongoing (Standing
Resolution)
Consider making part of the committee charge.
Provide a session
breakout on local senate issues: Empowering
Local Senates
Exec Action
09/04
Ongoing (Standing Resolution)
Consider making part of the committee charge. Sessions will be conducted at both
Fall and Spring Plenary Sessions on effective senates.
Hold training
sessions for new delegates on their roles
and responsibilities at Fall and Spring sessions
Exec Action
09/04
Ongoing (Standing
Resolution)
Consider making part of the committee charge.
Training sessions will be conducted at both
Fall and Spring Plenary Sessions.
