Rostrum

Welcome to the Senate Rostrum! Below is the collection of articles, starting with the most recent.
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November 2022
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July 2020

Latest Rostrum Articles

Date Title Sort descending Committee Authors
Feb 2015 Previews of Coming Attractions for Spring 2015: Many Paths, Many Voices President
Mar 2004 Principle and Integrity in the Academy Relations with Local Senates Committee
May 2005 Principles and Pragmatism Once More: Three Educational Policy Breakouts Executive Committee
May 2016 Prior Learning Experience for Credit: A Faculty Question Executive Committee
Apr 1998 Problems at Santa Rosa J.C.
May 2011 Processes and Models for Class Section Cuts
Mar 2011 Professional Development (with the emphasis on “Professional”!) Faculty Leadership Development Committee
Feb 2015 Professional Development: A New Chapter? Faculty Leadership Development Committee
Oct 2014 Professional Development: Come One, Come All Faculty Leadership Development Committee
Apr 2022 Professional Learning: A Framework
Apr 1998 Program Discontinuance: A Faculty Issue Executive Committee
Nov 2015 Program Review: From Mandate to Benefit Executive Committee
Sep 2008 Project Empowerment Equity and Diversity Action Committee
May 2005 Promises to Keep President
May 2022 Providing Safe and Inclusive Learning Environments for Neurodivergent Students Aligned with Equity and IDEAA in the California Community Colleges
Oct 1998 Putting Excellence into "Partnership" Executive Committee
Jan 2010 Putting Prerequisites into Context: How We Got to Where We Are
Apr 2010 Putting Students First: The Solution to the Challenge of Program Discontinuance Curriculum Committee
Nov 2015 Quantitative Reasoning at the Baccalaureate Level: How We Arrived at This Moment and the Need for Further Dialog among All Faculty Executive Committee
Sep 2009 Read about Reading Executive Committee
Apr 2010 Reading May Be the Key to Unlocking Basic Skills Success Basic Skills Committee
Dec 2006 Reading the Tea Leaves - Detecting Patterns in the Random (or not so.) Executive Committee
Apr 2023 Realizing the What and Determining the How President
Mar 2009 Reassignment Relations with Local Senates Committee
Apr 2024 Recent Assaults on DEI and Impacts of Limiting DEI in Instruction Executive Committee