Rooms must be booked before March 8, 2015 to secure the group rate. The rate, based on availability, is offered three days before and after this event. Call the Westin Central Reservations Office at (888) 627-8404 and ask for the Academic Senate group rate.
The Academic Senate, through resolutions and events, strengthens the core of what faculty do every day for students by tirelessly promoting academic excellence. With new funding available for our system, our insistence that quality instruction and service to students are dependent upon the availability of full-time faculty takes on new hope.
Thank you for participating in Spring Plenary 2012! Presentations and materials can be downloaded by clicking on the respective links to the left.
Did you like the Mira and the Coasters' videos at the reception? Or maybe you missed them? Check them out on YouTube!
Bad Finance: http://youtu.be/XDgmtG3CxwA
Outcomes: http://youtu.be/KfrUwvR2HwI
Greetings!
I’m particularly excited by our theme this time–“Rising to the Challenge: Responding to Disruptive Forces.” We wanted a positive tone to our theme but we also wanted to reflect the fact that, as so often is the case, we are dealing with multiple pressures and often pressures that effectively conflict. We’ve been feeling some of the identified “pressures” for quite some time and others are relatively new. The five “disruptive forces”, as identified by Jeff Selingo, Editor at Large at the Chronicle of Higher Education are:
Welcome to a new academic year especially to those of you who joined us as new senate presidents at the summer leadership institute in June. We hope that you are enjoying a successful start to your term and that you will rejoin your ever growing support network at our 2006 Fall Plenary Session. Mark your calendars to be in Orange County on October 26 thru 28 at the Fairmont Newport Beach.
Thank you for participating in Fall Plenary 2012!