A Perspective on Faculty Responsibilities: Suggestions for Local Senates.

Institution	Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento.
Titel	A Perspective on Faculty Responsibilities: Suggestions for Local Senates.
Quelle	(1995), (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Recht; Stellungnahme; Board of Education Policy; College Governing Councils; Community Colleges; Educational Legislation; Faculty College Relationship; Faculty Development; Peer Evaluation; Policy Formation; Professional Development; Scholarship; School Policy; Teacher Responsibility; Teacher Role; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulrat; Community college; Community College; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Politische Betätigung; Scholarships; Stipendium; Schulpolitik; Lehrverpflichtung; Lehrerrolle
Abstract	Designed for use by local academic senates at community colleges in California, this paper describes faculty involvement in governance at the colleges, cites areas of faculty responsibilities, and provides suggestions for increasing faculty participation. Following introductory materials, a brief history is provided of community college faculty involvement in governance and policymaking from 1963 to 1992, reviewing the foundation of local academic senates in 1963 and other key legislation designed to give faculty a voice in governance. Faculty responsibilities and expectations are defined next, covering legal requirements for faculty involvement in ensuring effective hiring processes, effective evaluation and tenure review processes, effective curriculum processes, and faculty involvement in policy development and implementation. The paper then reviews responsibilities of administrators, academic senates, and collective bargaining agents, and suggests four categories of professional activities which higher education faculty perform beyond classroom responsibilities: individual and collective pedagogical development; local and statewide policy development; scholarship; and student/community service. Finally, suggestions are made for promoting greater faculty participation including: (1) establish professional expectations in relation to the four categories; (2) develop mechanisms to promote faculty fulfillment of professional expectations in tenure review and peer evaluation; (3) implement reassigned time policies; (4) create professional development policies using faculty responsibilities criteria for awarding funds; (5) establish sabbatical leave policies with professional expectation components; and (6) implement policies and practices which support new faculty. Excerpts from state educational legislation, and position statements on collegiality and academic senates are appended. (KP)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC