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:

April 2024
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
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
Nov 2009 Herding Cats: Local Senates & the Brown Act Curriculum Committee
Nov 2009 The Categorical Saga
Nov 2009 Why Should We Care About Categoricals? Counseling Advisory Committee
Nov 2009 There and Back Again: Moving Toward Content-Review Based Prerequisites Curriculum Committee
Nov 2009 Julie’s Inbox Executive Director
Nov 2009 Do Career Technical Faculty Stand Alone? Vocational Education Committee
Nov 2009 The Accelerated Learning College, California Leadership Alliance for Student Success, and Embracing Faculty Leadership President
Nov 2009 Transfer Degrees—Elephants in the Room, Lines in the Sand, Hills to Die on, and Dead Horses President
Sep 2009 A Modest Proposal: Simplifying Articulation, Respecting Local Autonomy, and Responding to "Common Course Numbering” Mandates C-ID Leadership
Sep 2009 Resolving the TBA Dilemma: A Tale of Three Memos Curriculum Committee