When Bad Shift Happens To Good Colleges…

Keeping Faculty Leadership Involved in Times of Crisis

Julie Bruno, Sierra CollegeDolores Davison, Foothill College

First: A SurveyStrengths and weaknesses in dealing with the 10 +110+1 Academic and Professional Matters

Policies and Processes for… Notes:

Good to go Needs tweaking Needs overhaul Help! Priority

Enrollment management

Curriculum

Degree and Certificate Requirements

Grading Policies

Program development, viability and discontinuance

Student Preparation and Success

Governance structures

Accreditation

Faculty Development

Program Review

Institutional Planning

Budget development and reductions

Connection between program review, planning and resource allocation

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What are the Big Issues?

Budget Budget Budget Budget…

But what else?

“When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents

opportunity.”

--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What should you be doing as a faculty leader during these times? Enrollment management policies and

procedures: are you part of these decisions? Are other faculty?

Does your college have a program viability/discontinuance policy? If not, you should be involved in its creation (it’s part of the 10 +1)

Is your program review and budget process integrated? If not, begin those discussions.

And…Accreditation

Use accreditation and other external processes to your advantage: the threat of outside bodies may have more impact than your voice alone.

How Else Can Faculty Affect Change?

Resources

Senate Papers: Enrollment Management Revisited (Spring

2009) A Budget Primer for Faculty Leaders (Fall

2009) Faculty Role in Budget (Fall 2001)

Rostrum articles Updating the Faculty Role in Planning and

Budgeting Paper (November 2009) Budget Processes: Maintaining the 10 + 1 in

Budget Crisis (December 2008)