Be it resolved by the Ventura College Academic Senate that:
Whereas, we have made every effort to partner with our management colleagues both at the District and College level in developing methods to anticipate and prepare for the upcoming budget reductions that the entire California Community College system will see in Fiscal/Academic Year 2011-12 by attending in budget workshops and actively contributing in  participatory District and College governance committee meetings; and
Whereas, our input into college planning systems and resource allocation processes models should be respected and honored regardless, or perhaps especially, in times of financial exigencies and fiscal crises; and
Whereas, we acknowledge the right of management to have the final say on the scheduling for each semester but that the schedule development should always be jointly developed by the department chair and the dean in consultation with discipline faculty; and
Whereas, faculty are the front-line and primary interface with students and know best what courses and services best meet our students’ needs; and
Whereas, as noted in “Recommendation 7” in the recent January 2011 Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges letter, Ventura College “needs to develop a more comprehensive system of campus communication that promotes a climate of open dialogue, broader involvement in an understanding of college planning processes, and increased access to information and institutional outcomes”; and
Therefore Be It Resolved, the process for the development of the instructional schedule be altered to embrace a culture of transparency that includes open, two way communication; and, further, that no irregular or extraordinary tactics, strategies or techniques be employed to effect the discontinuance of a program, or a significant aspect of a program, in lieu of working through existing, regular, open and scheduled development processes; and   
Therefore, Be It Further Resolved, that the Academic Senate work with the College President to develop a Ventura College participatory governance committee on Enrollment Management, effective no later than Fall 2011 and to be operational in advance of the development of the Spring 2012 schedule, that will ensure that informed and principled decisions on enrollment management will be made in open and transparent venues and that prior to its development, schedule development be done by primarily consulting with discipline faculty.

*First Draft by Peter Sezzi (April 4, 2011); Second Draft by VC Senate Exec (April 5, 2011); Presented to the Senate Council for First Reading April 7, 2011 and adopted unanimously without a second reading.