From Primordial Ooze to Vertebrate Engineering Faculty Leaders

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From Primordial Ooze to Vertebrate Engineering
Faculty Leaders

• Cathy Cox
• Mission College
• Lesley Kawaguchi
• Santa Monica College
• Michelle Pilati
• Rio Hondo College

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Evolution of Faculty
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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?

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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

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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.

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Engineering Leaders

• How do you entice faculty into serving on
  committees, and becoming local senate leaders?

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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

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Solutions Human Resources

• Create lists of faculty members to choose from
• Dont rely on those you know well
• Think broadly

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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 -- its harder to refuse
  immediately

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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

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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

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Solutions - Education

• Demonstrate the value of what the senate does
• Educate local senators -
• What are the 101?
• 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?

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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

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Other Solutions

• What has worked on your campus?

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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

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Other Resources

• Review Title 5 and the Education Code (remember
  this is changing as we speak)
• Know the senates authority - Ten plus One
• Carry the card
• Add it to your senate agenda

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Other Resources

• Use data available at the CCCCO website
  http//www.cccco.edu
• 50 law
• 7525
• FTES
• Faculty Obligation Number
• Fiscal Data abstract

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Other ResourcesASCCC 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