President's Update

Greetings colleagues! This year, the Academic Senate has set a priority to reflect on areas where faculty have agency to increase student access, learning, and success in scheduled classes.

We will pursue this priority by building knowledge about the class schedule with our institutional partners, so the Senate is more aware and so the Senate may reflect on faculty roles in five main areas: (1) departmental scheduling philosophies and practices, (2) teaching in instructional modalities, (3) professional development, (4) long term planning, and (5) administrative policies. We hope all faculty will track this conversation with us.

Here’s a draft of our knowledge-building arc:
9/19 Enrollment Institute Team
10/17 Scheduling Blocks & An Overview of DE Education
11/21 Data Dashboard Look at Access and Success
12/5 Listening Session: Academic Departments' Scheduling Philosophies & Processes
2/6 Conversation with CPC and AAC: What is a Program? 2/20 Course Design and Pedagogy in Instructional Modalities
3/6 Professional Development Planning
4/3 Hiring to support a student-centered schedule: Equivalency and HR Outreach
4/17 The Educational Futures Plan
5/1 The Online Ed Plan
While maintaining this priority, we will sustain our focus on the all the critical academic and professional matters we attend to. As always, please reach out to your representative.