Whereas, The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office launched three major grant-funded initiatives in Fall 2013, with those initiatives being the Education Planning, Common Assessment, and the Online Education Initiatives;
Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has adopted a paper on faculty involvement in the evaluation of administrators;
Resolved, That the Academic Senate hold a breakout in Fall 2002 revisiting the issue of faculty involvement in the evaluation of administrators;
Resolved, That the Academic Senate conduct a survey in the Fall 2002 session on community colleges that have a process for evaluating administrators; and
Resolved, That the Academic Senate provide examples of such processes and share them through a publication.
Whereas, Unprecedented budget challenges are prompting California community colleges to seek alternative funding sources, such as grants, with increasing urgency;
Whereas, Grants are increasingly a de facto part of college planning and budget processes and are used to maintain and/or expand new and existing programs; and
Whereas, Failure to integrate grants development into college planning and budget development processes circumvents, and thus disrupts, those college processes;
Whereas, Unprecedented budget challenges are prompting California community colleges to seek alternative funding sources, such as grants, with increasing urgency;
Whereas, Grants often include provisions for the creation and/or implementation of new policies, processes, and technologies that are within the purview of the local senate;
Whereas, Districts and colleges have well-established processes for ensuring that decision-making is a participatory process and that faculty have primacy in making recommendations related to academic and professional matters; and
Whereas, Unprecedented budget challenges are prompting California community colleges to seek alternative funding sources such as grants with increasing urgency;
Whereas, Grants often include provisions for the creation and implementation of new educational programs and curricula that do not require the students to earn college credit;
Whereas, California community colleges are being asked to use the Accountability Reporting for Community Colleges (ARCC) report to identify areas of institutional strength and weakness and to seek methods of improving areas of institutional weakness; and
Whereas, The data fields reported in the ARCC report are of varying data quality and significance in identifying the most pressing areas for institutional scrutiny and improvement;
Whereas, California Education Code 87357-87359 and Title 5 53200, 53430, and 55002 require that local Governing Boards rely primarily on or reach mutual agreement with their academic senates with regard to (1) curriculum development for both courses and programs, (2) the assignment of courses to disciplines, and (3) the process for establishing equivalency; and
Whereas, The requirement for academic senate consultation is the same for both credit and noncredit curriculum matters and faculty equivalency;
Whereas, In 1999 the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges published a paper called The Role of Academic Senates in Enrollment Management, but changes in both college operations and the faculty role in making decisions that affect course offerings have occurred since that paper was published;
Whereas, Resolution 17.01 F07 called for the Academic Senate to update its paper to address recent variables that now affect enrollment challenges; and
Whereas, Resolution 13.04 adopted at the Fall 2007 Plenary Session asked the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges to "create a document that sets out the basic elements of a higher education institution, particularly within California's community college system"; and
Whereas, Education Code, Title 5, and local policies and procedures are either legal directives or collaborative agreements that should be respected at all levels of the California Community College System;
Whereas, Faculty at the district and local level have been frustrated by administrative violations of such directives and agreements; and