Local Senates

This position paper of the Academic Senate provides the background and scope of enrollment management as it is defined and practiced by educational institutions. Emerging themes in higher education, and enrollment trends in California, are used to frame enrollment management considerations. A variety of strategies for managing over- and under-enrollment are presented. The paper concludes with the role of the academic senate in developing and evaluating enrollment management plans. A glossary of enrollment management key terms is included at the end.

Revised and Updated 2020

Academic senates and bargaining agents both represent faculty. Each has a unique, defined role, but faculty issues often overlap the areas of responsibility of both the senate and the bargaining agent. It is to the best interest of faculty that the two organizations cooperate and collaborate. With the complexity of challenges facing community colleges, it is expected that this would be a common situation in need of well-defined, agreed-upon strategies.

Updated 2020

Local Academic Senate Network (Geoclusters)

The following sections comprise this document:

• Brown Act Do's and Don'ts for Academic Senates
• Open Meeting Laws In California The Brown Act
• Defining And Understanding the Role Of The Academic Senate Excerpts From Title 5

The senate and the local board or its designee (usually the chancellor, or president and senior administration) need to "consult collegially" on the development of a new district policy for board action to implement the new regulations. This policy can be very general (i.e., a statement that the district will operate according to the provisions of Title 5, Sections 53200-53204) or more specific in terms of how the district carries out the regulations. Different boards and districts may include different amounts of procedural detail in district policies.

A checklist for local academic senates to use in determining the relative strengths of their senates.