Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges request the Chancellor to recommend to the Board of Governors that the Board develop regulations stipulating that Affirmative Action expenditures as per section 87104 of AB 1725 be augmentations of expenditures for existing affirmative action programs and for new affirmative action programs.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges direct the Executive Committee to publicize at each statewide session the place, date, and time of the next area meeting, and
Resolved that the publicity be directed both to senate presidents and to session delegates.
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges add the Faculty Development, Legislative, and Affirmative Action Committees as standing Senate Committees by amending rule #6 of the Academic Senate Rules to read as follows:
Standing Committees:
A. Educational Policies Committee
B. Research Committee
C. Vocational Education Committee
D. Relations With Local Senates Committee
E. Faculty Development Committee
F. Legislative Committee
G. Affirmative Action Committee
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges add to the Senate Rules the status of Ex-Officio Non-voting Senator, by amending rule #3 of the Academic Senate Rules to read as follows:Ex-Officio Non-Voting Senator Status: Ex-officio non-voting Senator status in the Academic Senate may be granted by the General Session of the Academic Senate.
Whereas new Title 5 regulations require that critical thinking be included in all degree-applicable courses, and
Whereas the position paper on critical thinking, prepared by the Educational Policies Committee, is a valuable contribution to the discussion of critical thinking,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges endorse Critical Thinking Skills in the College Curriculum, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate distribute the paper to all local senates.
Whereas the National Endowment for the Humanities 1984 report To Reclaim a Legacy reveals a decline in humanities education in the United States to the extent that many students are graduating from American colleges and universities without even the most fundamental knowledge of history, literature, philosophy, language, and the arts, and
Whereas the same study disclosed that 8th of all undergraduate credit hours in the humanities are taken in the freshman and sophomore years, and
Whereas the Educational Policies Committee, directed by a resolution of the Academic Senate 1987 Fall Conference, has developed a document to help local senates participate in the movement to improve articulation between schools and colleges,
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges endorse the document produced by the Educational Policies Committee: Improving Articulation Between High Schools and Community Colleges: Activities and Incentives, and
A booklet with suggestions for local senates, includes such issues as setting annual goals, setting an agenda, faculty involvement, committee appointments, relations with collective bargaining and administration.
A study of models for program and services review
What exactly is shared governance? The University of California model would suggest that shared governance means that the Board of Regents delegates authority over certain matters, such as curriculum, to the faculty. When the Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates developed the general education transfer curriculum, and the UC decided to use it as the basis of a UC general education transfer curriculum, a vote of the Senate on May 5, 1988, was sufficient to put the new curriculum into play.