richard mahon jane patton. ed code title 5 local policies accreditation

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?