Plenary Sessions

2023 Fall Plenary Session

Event Type
Featured
Title Breakout Time
Coffee Networking: Meet and Greet
General Session 1
General Session 3
Addressing Part-Time Faculty Inequities in Academic and Professional Matters
Empowering Diverse Inclusive Faculty Leadership: Strategies, Resources, and Communities
Humanizing Students and Advancing Equity in Carceral Systems - Changing Hearts and Minds
Supporting Student Transfer Journeys: Updates and Dialogue
Academic and Professional Perspectives: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations for Generative AI in Teaching, Learning, and Policy Considerations
Advancing Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Efforts through Open Education Resources (OER)
Data! What is it Good For? Absolutely Something!"
Effective Communication Strategies for Inclusive Academic Senate Leaders
Curriculum Updates
Managing Change: Leadership and Strategic Thinking
Saying Ahead: A Faculty-Focused Exploration of ACCJC’s 2024 Accreditation Changes
General Session 4
General Session 5
Challenges and Opportunities in Career Education
Academic Senate Leadership: Leveraging EEO Practices in Faculty Hiring Processes to Recruit, Hire, and Retain Diverse Faculty
Leading with Humility: Bringing Cultural Humility into Academic Senate Work
Centering IDEAA and Cultural Humility in Professional Development and Instructional Design Frameworks
What's Going On With C-ID?
General Session 6
General Session 7

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the 2023 Fall Plenary Session!

2016 Spring Plenary Session

Event Type
Featured
Title Breakout Time
Statewide Curriculum Update: The PCAH, Curriculum Inventory, and Other Hot Topics
Information is Power—A Guide for First Time Attendees and First Time Delegates
Legislation and Advocacy
Basic Skills and Dual Enrollment
Understanding the Research: Student Learning Outcomes and the Accreditation Standards
The Common Assessment is Nearly Here: Is Your College Ready?
Strong Workforce Taskforce: Implementing the Recommendations
Equity in 2016: Changing the Institutional Culture
Developing Healthy and Productive Relations: Faculty and Administrative Leaders
Strong Workforce Task Force Recommendations: Implementation Conversation
The Continuing Evolution of Course Identification (C-ID) System
Regional Coordination
Curriculum—C-ID System
Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative: Indicators 2.0 and Beyond
Disenfranchised Students—Who are They, How Are We Helping Them, and What More Can We Do?
The Online Education Initiative: Believe in Access, Redesign the Systems, and Shift the Culture
Institutional Effectiveness Planning Initiative (IEPI): Integrated Planning—Resources Available Soon!
State of the Senate
How Can We Get the Faculty We Need? Faculty Hiring, Recruitment, and Diversity
General Education—Quantitative Reasoning and the CSU Task Force

 ACADEMIC SENATE FOUNDATION SPRING FLING 2016 at the MIX Downtown Sacramento

2014 Fall Plenary Session

Event Type
Featured
Title Breakout Time
Panel Discussion: The Technology Initiatives and Their Impact on Our Colleges
Welcome to a Brave New World
Supporting Your Students: Mental Health Services
I'm Just a Bill: The Legislative Agenda for 2015
The Online Education Initiative - Get the Latest!
It's the Students, Silly: Professional Development and Student Success
Equity and Accreditation - Using SSSP, Equity Plans, and Enrollment Management Plans in the Accreditation Process
Alternative Pathways: School to College to Career
Cultural Competency in Our Local Senates, On Campus, and the ASCCC
What's Next? An Update on C-ID, TMCs, and Messaging to Students
A Single Assessment for All
Adult Basic Education Course Development and New CDCP Funding: Hopes, Dreams, and Concerns
Academic Senate Representation and Area Structure: "You Want Me to Drive Where?"
State of the Senate
Program Review: A Statewide Conversation about Decision Making and Institutional Effectiveness
Were to Go, What to Be: The Academic Senate Five Year Strategic Plan
Exploring New Possibilities for Student Success Through Noncredit
Education Planning Initiative
You Say You Want a Resolution?
Relations with Local Senates: What have You done for me Lately?
Hiring Diverse Faculty
Sacred Cows or Obstacles to Progress: Reconsidering Statutory and Regulatory Restrictions on Budget Allocation--Can We Do Better?
Update on Bylaws Revision
New Standards in Accreditation
Come Get Your Curriculum Hot Topics Before They Are Gone
Who Are You? Using Regular and Effective Contact to Ensure Academic Integrity and Student Success in Online Courses
Bylaws
Student Success Initiative Implementation: Goals for the CCC System
Gender Equity on Campus
The Who, What, Where, and When of Equivalency
Thriving Through Sanctions aka "Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another?"
Chancellor's Office Discussion: Brown Act Compliance
Chancellor's Office Discussion: Brown Act Compliance

The ASCCC Fall 2014 Plenary Session will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Irvine from November 13-15, 2014. Registration for the event is now open.

2023 Spring Plenary Session

Event Type
Featured

The Academic Senate invites you to attend the 2023 Spring Plenary Session on April 20-22, 2023, held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Anaheim - Orange County! Join us this April to attend impactful breakout sessions, discuss statewide matters, vote on important Resolutions, and to network and engage with faculty across our system. Registration Information Coming Soon!

2022 Fall Plenary Session - Hybrid Event

Event Type
Featured
Title Breakout Time
Building Community and Grounding
General Session 1
General Session 2: Out of a Multitude of Tongues: Academic Freedomand The Importance of Diverse and Inclusive Discourse
General Session 3: Transforming Institutional Use of Data
General Session 4: The Legislative Landscape and You: Using Authentic Voices and Experiences as Impactful Advocacy Efforts
General Session 5: Aligning General Education Pathways
Town Hall Listening Session: ACCJC Standards Review
Developing Faculty Leaders and Empowering Diverse Voices in Local Academic Senate Matters
The Power of Voice: Using Narrative to Advocate for Faculty and Students
Liaisons: How Can They Serve Local Academic Senates and the ASCCC, and What Resources Exist for Them?
Data-informed Planning, Policy Development, and Decision-Making to Strengthen Students’ Success
Open Educational Resources (OER), the OER Initiative, and the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Program – Challenges and Opportunities
Leveraging Noncredit Education for Equitable Student Opportunities
Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Students on Campus
The State of Ethnic Studies Education in the California Community Colleges
Faculty Engagement in Statewide Systems: IEPI, Accreditation, and Statewide Service
General Session 7: Increasing Access to Local Academic Senate Meetings Supports Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Faculty Leadership
General Session 8: Authentic Leadership: Collaboration Between Administration and Faculty Leaders in the California Community College System
General Session 9: Mission Still Possible

Dear Colleagues,

2022 Spring Plenary Session - Hybrid Event

Event Type
Title Breakout Time
New Delegate Information Session
General Session 1 and 2
Going Deep: Using the Cultural Humility Tool in Your Racial Justice Journey
Academic Senate and Unions Unite: Protecting the Future of Academic Freedom During a Time of Significant Change
Is Transfer Broken? Truths and Myths About Transfer
Racial Justice Through Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning in STEM
Unsyncopated Beats: Trying To Grow Enrollment Amid Competing Challenges
Legislation, Regulation, and Guidance…and Academic Freedom?
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Beyond - Creating Equitable Experiences and Opportunitie
Moving beyond Triage: Balancing Academic Freedom, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Strengthening Online Instruction
Digging Deeper and Understanding the Impacts of Race Neutrality and What it Means to Be an Ally
Advancing Authentic Inclusion of Diverse Voices in Governance and Practice
General Session 3
Academic Freedom and Diverse Knowledges— The Role and Application of Critical Race Theory in the Classroom
Achieving Racial Justice Through Managing the Enrollment and Retention of BIPOC Students: Intrusive Student Services
Ethnic Studies in the California Community Colleges: Academic Freedom
I.D.E.A.A. Practitioners- From Theory to Practice
Making It Happen: Collaborating with HR To Hire and Retain BIPOC Faculty

 Registration Cutoff: March 25, 2022

THEME:  Strengthening Teaching, Leading, and Learning through Racial Justice and Academic Freedom

In order to make the event as accessible as possible for all attendees, regardless of the way they choose to attend, ASCCC opted to make one flat fee for the registration, based on the costs identified to put the event together.

2021 Fall Plenary Session - Hybrid Event

Event Type
Title Breakout Time
New Delegate Information Session
General Session 1
General Session 2: Taking the Lead on Legislation that Impacts Teaching and Learning while Maintaining a Focus on Students
All Things Ethnic Studies
Governance in a Hybrid World
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degrees: Establishing a Sustainable Solution to the Challenge of Making Education Affordable
Senate Leadership 101
Legislation that Impacts Teaching and Learning – A Closer Look
Accessibility, Equity, and Online Education
The Role of Senates in General Education
Competency Based Education as a Vehicle for Equity
The Convergence of Online and In-Person: How to Navigate this Space
General Session 3 - Honoring Faculty Leaders, Honorary Resolutions, Faculty Empowerment Leadership Academy
General Session 4 - From Equity Theory to Equity Practice: Activating Our Agency as Practitioners
General Session 5 - Transfer – Clearing the Fog and Taking the Lead
Succession Planning: Passing On The Gavel
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism - A Process for Reviewing and Improving Courses and Course Resources
The Role of Faculty in Tutoring and Learning Centers in the Community College: Highlights from the Paper
Transfer – Leading the Effort to Create Effective Opportunities
Hot Topics for Part-Time Faculty
ASCCC Caucuses
Hiring and EEO Regulations
Partnering with Students: The 9+1 and the 10+1
Equity Driven Leadership 102
Periodic Review of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
Senate and Union Relations in the Age of Covid
Setting a Higher Standard: Partnering with Unions to Embed DEI Expectations in Evaluations

Registration for in-person attendance is now open to all that wish to attend! While we are still capping in-person attendance to 150, to maintain social distancing guidelines, we welcome colleges that would like to send multiple attendees in-person to do so. Register as soon as possible for either in-person or virtual!  

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2021 Spring Plenary Session - Virtual Event

Event Type
Title Breakout Time
General Session 1
Delegates and First-time Attendees
Going Beyond Development: A Philosophical and Practical Approach to Professional Learning
Noncredit, Pre-Transfer, and Community Education in a Post-COVID World
Ujima: Looking Beyond Colonialistic Individualism Towards a More Collaborative and Culturally Responsive Model of Learning
General Session 2
Addressing Equity Gaps by Using Outcomes and Assessment Data as Mirrors to Ensuring Learning
Assembly Bills, Senate Bills, and Trailer Bill Language: Navigating the Legislative Proposals
Decolonizing got Community Colleges: Understanding the History to Imagine the Future: Follow-Up Session
Student Governments and Academic Senates: A Partnership for Student Success
Revisiting the Promises of AB705: What Data Tells Us about AB705’s Impact on Students of Color
Zen and the Art of Assigning Courses to Disciplines
The Economic Imperative: Diversity, Inclusion, and California's Demographic Shifts
Participating Effectively in District and College Governance: An Update of The ASCCC/CCLC Participating Effectively and Scenarios Documents
Empowered Voices at the Academic Senate Table: Utilizing Strategy, Intention, and Personal Power to Impact Change
General Session 3
Equity Committees at CCCs: Best Practices and/or Challenges
Leadership with Empathy: Inviting More Voices and Authentic Stories
Leveraging Guided Pathways as a Framework for Equity: A Suite of Resources
Rethinking Curriculum, Instruction, Student Services and Student Support in Covid-19 and Beyond
Agendizing DEI in Academic Senate-Led Committees
Decolonization & Equity in Remote Learning and Distance Education
Equity-Driven Leadership
FAQs on the Disciplines List and Minimum Qualifications

2020 Fall Plenary Session - Virtual Event

Event Type
Title Breakout Time
Morning Activity - Meet & Greet
Black Caucus
Womyn's Caucus
General Session & Welcome
Delegates and First Time Attendees Information Session
Building Equity Driven Systems: Embracing Anti-Racism
Lessons from the Covid-19 Emergency: How Can We Improve Planning for Addressing Long Term Emergencies That May Require Remote Teaching
Mentorship Programs as a Recruitment and Retention Strategy of Faculty of Color
How can IDEAs Improve Curricular Learning for all Students
Anti-Racism Best Practices for Student Services Educators
Legislation in California: What Should I Know as an Academic Senate Leader?
From the Classroom to the Community: Bridging Culturally Responsive Practices with Counseling and Student Support Services
Ethnic Studies in California Community Colleges
How Can Equity Be Considered in Course Outlines of Record?
General Session 2: Addressing Anti-Blackness in the California Community Colleges: Meet the Summer Special Rostrum Faculty Authors
You Can’t Be What You Don’t See: Diversifying Our Academy Through Equity-minded Model Hiring Principles and Practices
Humanizing Online Teaching & Learning: An Equity-Minded Approach
Grow Your Own Faculty - How to Encourage our Students to Become Community College Instructors
Addressing Anti-Blackness, Microaggressions and Gaslighting
Hallway Conversations in 2020 with the ASCCC President and Vice President
A Guided Pathways Mosaic
Cops, Courts, Corrections and Curriculum: Equity and Justice for All
Transforming Organizational Cultures Through Anti-Racist Policies and Practices
New Horizons: Competency Based Education and the CCC CBE Collaborative
Hiring through an equity lens: Rethinking policies and procedures
General Session 3: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Budget Reduction Considerations
Re-framing Collegial Consultation
Transforming from Eurocentric to Inclusive Curriculum- A Theoretical Approach
Transforming the College Into an Equity-Driven System: The Local Academic Senate Action Plan
Acknowledging the Historical Context of Racism and Assessing and Advancing Effective Anti-Racism Practices for Faculty Professional Development: Highlights from the Paper
Academic Freedom and Equity (with conversation about Paper)
Ensuring Quality and Equitable Online Courses Using the CVC Course Design Rubric and Local POCR
Mindfulness for Leaders: Keeping Yourself and Your Faculty Grounded During a Time of Uncertainties
Protecting our Most Vulnerable Students: How can we assure that students of color and low-income students are equitably served in online and remote learning?
ASCCC Periodic Review for 2020-21
General Session 4: Resolutions Overview for Saturday
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