Transcript Developing Faculty Participation and Leadership

From Primordial Ooze to
Vertebrate – Engineering
Faculty Leaders
Cathy Cox
Mission College
Lesley Kawaguchi
Santa Monica College
Michelle Pilati
Rio Hondo College
Evolution of Faculty
Identifying Ooze with Potential
• How do you do this?
• A starting point – identify your
goals
• Who can help you achieve them?
• Are these your future leaders?
Academic Senate Leadership
“Leadership is the art of getting
someone else to do something
you want done because he wants
to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Points to remember..
• Leaders are born – and, more commonly,
developed.
• We are all learning.
• The best leaders are the ones that
continue to learn.
• Learn your strengths and weaknesses and
the areas you need balance in.
• Learn to delegate.
Engineering Leaders
How do you entice
faculty into serving on
committees, and
becoming local senate
leaders?
Solutions – Where are you going?
• Develop goals – your own individual goals
• Develop goals - collegially developed
senate/campus goals
• Place your goals on the senate agenda
with updates
• Create a year-end report and evaluation of
what your senate has achieved
Solutions – Human Resources
• Create lists of faculty
members to choose from
• Don’t rely on those you
know well
• Think broadly
Solutions – Human Resources
• Get suggestions
• Get those who are vocal
involved
• Visit departments and talk
about your plans -- get to know
your faculty
• Ask people in person -- it’s
harder to refuse immediately
Solutions – Human Resources
• Use new faculty orientation to
introduce the senate and shared
governance issues
• Conduct local workshops and faculty
development to generate interest and
enthusiasm
• Match people and their skills to
positions
Solutions – Human Resources
• Encourage older faculty to mentor
the new faculty
• Invite new hires to senate and
committee meetings to observe
• Advertise the “wins” and
accomplishments on committees
• Value and esteem faculty work nominate participants for awards
Solutions - Education
• Demonstrate the value of what the senate
does
• Educate local senators – What are the 10+1?
– Have you neglected any of the areas in
which faculty should have primacy?
– Is your senate really working to ensure
the highest quality education for your
students?
Strategic solutions – (if possible…)
• Try to limit the number of managers on your
committees
• Create faculty co-chairs to foster teamwork
• Work with your bargaining agent to ensure
reassigned time and faculty pay for senate work
during intercessions and summer
• Coordinate with your union so that you do not
duplicate work or overlap areas of responsibility
Other Solutions
• What has worked on your campus?
Local Senate Tools
• Place policies on Senate web site
• Provide a calendar of Senate events
– Area Meetings/Plenary Sessions
– ASCCC Institutes
– Local Senate events
• Forward emails of interest from the State
level to key faculty to develop awareness
of “big picture” statewide
Other Resources
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Review Title 5 and the Education Code
(remember this is changing as we
speak)
Know the senate’s authority - Ten plus
One
• Carry the card
• Add it to your senate agenda
Other Resources
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Use data available at the CCCCO
website http://www.cccco.edu
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FTES
Faculty Obligation Number
Fiscal Data abstract
Other Resources
ASCCC Can Help
• Send faculty to ASCCC institutes and
plenary sessions
• Use ASCCC Website with links
• Contact the Local Senates Committee
• Direct questions or issues to the
ASCCC officers and executive
director