Rostrum

Welcome to the Senate Rostrum! Below is the collection of articles, starting with the most recent.
See a list of our full Rostrum Archive.

Rostrum article deadlines

The deadlines for 2024-25 will be posted shortly.
See our Editorial Guidelines for Rostrum submissions.

Past Rostrum Publications:

February 2024
November 2023
April 2023
February 2023
November 2022
May 2022
April 2022
February 2022
July 2020

Latest Rostrum Articles

Date Title Committee Authors
Apr 2010 Coursework Recency Curriculum Committee
Apr 2010 The Transfer Degree: An Alternate Perspective Transfer and Articulation Committee
Apr 2010 A Tale of Interpretations: Transfer Velocity Executive Committee
Apr 2010 Curriculum and Dominoes: What We Learned about Statewide Curriculum Work through CB 21 Basic Skills Committee
Apr 2010 Minimum Qualifications Equivalency Standards and Criteria – A New Journey Standards and Practices Committee
Apr 2010 Putting Students First: The Solution to the Challenge of Program Discontinuance Curriculum Committee
Apr 2010 The Partnership for Student Success at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC)
Apr 2010 Julie’s Inbox Executive Director
Jan 2010 Transfer Degree Déjà Vu Executive Committee
Jan 2010 Fall 2009 Referred Resolutions – Revising the 50% Law and Response to AB 440: “Transfer Degree” Executive Committee
Jan 2010 It’s Not FSAs Standards and Practices Committee
Jan 2010 Julie’s Inbox…. Executive Director
Jan 2010 A Look on the “Bright Side” of Flex Activities Faculty Leadership Development Committee
Jan 2010 The Master Plan for Higher Education and the Missions of the California Community Colleges President
Jan 2010 Academic Dishonesty and the Faculty’s Right to Assign a Grade: A Test of the Academic Senate’s Authority Educational Policies Committee
Jan 2010 Basic Skills Initiative Work - We Have Gone Far and Deep! Basic Skills Committee
Jan 2010 Basic Skills – The Front Line Faculty are Often Adjuncts; How Do we Support and Involve Them? BSI Steering Committee
Jan 2010 Putting Prerequisites into Context: How We Got to Where We Are
Jan 2010 Ethnic Studies Requirement: Understanding It and Fulfilling It. Curriculum Committee
Jan 2010 Local Control – Who Needs It Executive Committee
Jan 2010 Sharing Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) With Your College Community Accreditation Committee
Jan 2010 “All Senates is Local” Relations with Local Senates Committee
Nov 2009 Institutional Review Boards—An Academic and Professional Matter Educational Policies Committee
Nov 2009 Moving Forward with Basic Skills Strategies Basic Skills Committee
Nov 2009 Updating The Faculty Role in Planning and Budgeting Paper? Accreditation Committee