richard mahon jane patton. ed code title 5 local policies accreditation
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Richard MahonJane Patton
Ed Code
Title 5
Local Policies
Accreditation
Effective local senates
Senate V. Union roles
Using Resolutions
Documents subject to senate review
Brown Act
Standard IV
“Faculty and administrators have a substantive and clearly defined role in institutional governance and exercise a substantial voice in institutional policies, planning, and budget that relate to their areas of responsibility and expertise. Students and staff also have established mechanisms or organizations for providing input into institutional decisions.”
(IV.A.2.a)
“The best planning will be bottom up in nature” (p. 2)
“Planning should drive budgeting and not vice versa” (p. 8)
Multi-college Districts:
“Budgeting in a multi-college district is the achievement of an equitable allocation formula.”
Paper’s RecommendationsPlanning should drive
budgeting, never the reverse
• Planning should always be for the first-rate
• Planning, in an academic context, should be a bottom-up process
Paper’s Recommendations
Final recommendations of the planning and budget committee(s) should be reviewed by the academic senate, & other campus constituencies.
Formula shall be equitable with respect to each college in the district
Districts should take a “students first” approach to budgeting
Centralized services should be subject to regular review and evaluation
How does today’s climate change the
faculty roles?
Governance
Planning
Budgeting
Yeah, but. . .
When are faculty roles in jeopardy?
When policies or practices are not up-to-date
When policies or practices are not followed
When faculty are not vigilant
When groups squabble (e.g. senate + union)
How to prevent the dilution of faculty roles
In the short and the long term
Symptoms that something is going wrong
Avoiding Summer Surprises
Summer senate meetings
Summer governance committee meetings
Regular interactions with administrators
Senate president is empowered not as a individual but as a representative of senate & its position
Resources
Faculty Role in Planning and Budget
Enrollment Management (1st and 2nd papers)
Program Discontinuance: A Faculty Perspective
Scenarios (& all of your binder contents)
Title 5 and Ed Code
Rostrum
ASCCC office and Exec members
Scenarios
Number 3 ----on reduction of reassigned time
Number 10---- on accreditation
Number 16---- on budget processes
Directions:
Exec members will lead 8 groups of ~8-10
What’s the issue? Citation? Solution?