VCAS Goals 2024-2025

  1. Provide unapologetic strong faculty leadership in the processes for institutional planning and budget development, educational program development, standards or policies regarding student preparation and success and district and college governance structures.

  2. Academic Senate will advocate to increase instructional faculty diversity through advocating shared governance systemic changes such as:

    1. Hiring processes being more transparent to applicants (ex. screening criteria is shared with candidates)

    2. Automatic equivalency based on MQ pre-screening

    3. Consistent practice of pre-screening

    4. Holding faculty accountable to Title 5 requirements for hiring processes

    5. Mentoring a potential diverse faculty pool

  3. The Academic Senate will solicit representation from every division on its committees in order to:

    1. promote diversity of thought in council discussions and decisions.

    2. prioritize transparency and feedback from constituents to be brought to senate council
      ensure actions and decisions are appropriately distributed to divisions

  4. Academic Senate will advocate for data-driven decision-making at the district and college level, listening to VC students and faculty

  5. Work collaboratively with AFT on negotiated issues where our missions overlap including but not limited to: working modality assignment, lab pay equity, DE evaluations, and class caps. Increase frequency and/or prioritization of formal updates from AFT to Academic Senate, and from Academic Senate to AFT.

Senate Goals 2023-2024

1) Provide unapologetic strong faculty leadership in the processes for institutional planning and budget development, educational program development, standards or policies regarding student preparation and success and district and college governance structures.

2) Academic Senate will advocate to increase instructional faculty diversity through advocating shared governance systemic changes such as:

  • Hiring processes being more transparent to applicants (ex. screening criteria is shared with candidates)
  • Automatic equivalency based on MQ pre-screening
  • Consistent practice of pre-screening
  • Holding faculty accountable to Title 5 requirements for hiring processes
  • Mentoring a potential diverse faculty pool

3) Academic Senate will identify and implement opportunities for senators to express opinions in various methods of collecting their information/opinions (ex. various polls throughout the meetings, chat boxes that can be public or private, agree/disagree signals when someone is talking). 

4) Academic Senate will advocate for data-driven decision-making at the district and college level, listening to VC students and faculty

5) Work collaboratively with AFT on negotiated issues where our missions overlap including but not limited to: working modality assignment, lab pay equity, DE evaluations, and class caps. Increase frequency and/or prioritization of formal updates from AFT to Academic Senate, and from Academic Senate to AFT.

 

Senate Goals 2022-2023

1) Provide unapologetic strong faculty leadership in the processes for institutional planning and budget development, educational program development, standards or policies regarding student preparation and success and district and college governance structures.

2) Academic Senate will advocate to increase instructional faculty diversity through advocating shared governance systemic changes such as:

  • Hiring processes being more transparent to applicants (ex. screening criteria is shared with candidates)
  • Automatic equivalency based on MQ pre-screening
  • Consistent practice of pre-screening
  • Holding faculty accountable to Title 5 requirements for hiring processes
  • Mentoring a potential diverse faculty pool

3) Academic Senate will identify and implement opportunities for senators to express opinions in various methods of collecting their information/opinions (ex. various polls throughout the meetings, chat boxes that can be public or private, agree/disagree signals when someone is talking). 

4) Academic Senate will advocate for data-driven decision-making at the district and college level, listening to VC students and faculty

5) Work collaboratively with AFT on negotiated issues where our missions overlap including but not limited to: working modality assignment, lab pay equity, DE evaluations, and class caps. Increase frequency and/or prioritization of formal updates from AFT to Academic Senate, and from Academic Senate to AFT.

 

Senate Goals 2020-2021

 

Goal 1: Update Academic Senate Constitution and Bylaws including but not limited to: clarifying voting committee issue in the Senate Constitution.

Goal 2: Work collaboratively and with respect for each other’s opinions. Implement practices at Academic Senate Council meetings that foster rich, inclusive dialogue among senators.

Goal 3: Practice and promote equity, diversity, inclusiveness and antiracist practices in Academic Senate Council meetings and throughout the campus. Consider resolutions related to racial justice.

Goal 4: Professional development will focus inward on campus culture change through equity-centered professional development. Equity-focused coaching, workshops, institutes, and speaker series will be included as hands-on initiatives that will continually foster practitioner change.

Goal 5: Create a new faculty hiring prioritization process.

Goal 6: Ensure transparency in all things including but not limited to: budgets, evaluations, communications, and committees.

Goal 7: Distribute the local Academic Senate handbook to all faculty and keep the Senate website updated to ensure information is easy to find. Promote 10+1 on campus including but not limited to: hiring committees (increase diversity), tenure review committee makeup, budget, and curriculum considerations (added to program review process).

Goal 8: Work collaboratively with AFT on issues where our missions overlap including but not limited to: lab pay equity, DE evaluations, and class caps. Increase frequency and/or prioritization of formal updates from AFT to Academic Senate, and from Academic Senate to AFT.

Previous Years' Academic Senate Goals

Academic Senate Goals 2014-2015

Academic Senate Goals 2011-2012

Academic Senate Goals 2010-2011

Academic Senate Goals 2009-2010