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What is Academic Senate?

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Who is on the Academic Senate?

  • Each division has their own representative that votes for your interests. You can find your representative on the Academic Senate website. A division with 6 or less full-time faculty members can join with another division if both desire.
  • The Curriculum Chairs and Professional Development Committee Representative serve as committee representatives
  • President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer

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  • Title 5
  • Make recommendations to administration and district
  • The SMCCCD Board of Trustees agreed to rely primarily on the advice of the Senate in these matters

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  1. Curriculum, including establishing prerequisites and placing courses within disciplines.
  2. Curriculum Committee is a sub-committee of Academic Senate and the Curriculum Chair is a voting member of Academic Senate.
  3. Curriculum gives updates to Academic Senate and will put items forward for voting when needed.

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2. Degree and certificate requirements

  • Generally handled in Curriculum Committee, a subcommittee of Academic Senate.

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3. Grading Policies

  • Updating the plagiarism consequences to align with state regulations and district practice

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4. Educational Program Development.

  • Goal for 2018/2019 to continue the work to create a Program Improvement and Viability Process.

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5. Standards or policies regarding student preparation and success.

  • Provide feedback on Institutional Set Standards related to student success.
  • AB 705

The bill requires that a community college district or college maximize the probability that a student will enter and complete transfer-level coursework in English and math within a one year timeframe and use, in the placement of students into English and math courses, one or more of the following: high school coursework, high school grades, and high school grade point average.

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6. District and college governance structures, as related to faculty roles.

  • Recent Faculty Survey
  • Approve faculty representatives to hiring committees, governance committees, and faculty coordinators, etc..

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7. Faculty roles and involvement in accreditation processes, including self-study and annual reports

  • Approve faculty appointments to accreditation groups.
  • Update faculty on progress of accreditation.

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8. Policies for faculty professional development activities.

  • Faculty Professional Development Committee has a voting representative on Academic Committee
  • We appoint representatives to the Professional Learning Committee
  • Approve FLEX day agendas

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9. Processes for program review

  • Delegate oversight of program review to Instructional Planning Committee a few years ago due to workload and desire to have staff and administration better understand program strengths and needs

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10. Processes for institutional planning and budget development

  • Academic Senate President and Classified Senate President are co-chairs of the Planning and Budgeting Council (PBC).

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Other academic and professional matters as are mutually agreed upon between the governing board and the academic senate.