Faculty Primacy in Distance Education Instructional Programs and Student Services

Fall
2014
Resolution Number
17.02
 
Contact
Assigned to
Distance Education
Category
Local Senates
Status
Assigned

Whereas, The academic and professional matters identified in Title 5 §53200, including, but not limited to, curriculum development, approval policies, and procedures, educational program development, faculty professional development policies, student success policies, and institutional planning processes are matters of faculty primacy equally vital to ensuring the development and delivery of both quality in-person and distance education instructional programs and student services that promote educational success for faculty and students;

Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommends in its paper Ensuring the Appropriate Use of Educational Technology: An Update for Local Academic Senates (adopted Spring 2008)[1] that “colleges should create a committee structure that ensures that the incorporation of technology into the college is initiated and proceeds from an educational perspective rather than a technological perspective” and “colleges should ensure that their technology infrastructure provides support that promotes educational success for faculty and students”; and

Whereas, The provision of college and district distance education instructional programs and student services may be viewed by some colleges as purely an operational matter, which may result in misunderstandings about the necessary oversight role of college participatory governance structures, and about the requirements for collegial consultation with local academic senates on academic and professional matters in the development of policies and procedures for the development and delivery of quality college and district distance education instructional programs and student services;

Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges affirm that requirements for collegial consultation on academic and professional matters fully apply to college and district distance education instructional programs and student services; and

Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges support local academic senates in their efforts to assert to their governing boards and designees that faculty primacy over academic and professional matters applies fully to college and district distance education instructional programs and student services.