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.