Rostrum

Welcome to the Senate Rostrum! Below is the collection of articles, starting with the most recent.
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Latest Rostrum Articles

Date Title Sort descending Committee Authors
Jan 2010 Fall 2009 Referred Resolutions – Revising the 50% Law and Response to AB 440: “Transfer Degree” Executive Committee
Jan 1998 Fall Session Elections Elections Operational Committee
Feb 1999 Fall Session Has It All: From Partnership to Drama Transfer, Articulation, and Student Services Committee
Apr 2001 Fall Session: The Firsts and the Lasts Executive Director
Nov 2011 Faster is Not Better; Better is Better Executive Committee
Dec 2010 Federalization of Higher Education and the Expanding Data Bubble
Apr 2024 FELA: Empowering One Faculty Member to Speak Up, Speak Out, and Speak Loudly
Oct 1998 First Annual Technology for Teaching Institute Technology Committee
Apr 2006 First Conference Occupational Education Committee
Sep 2006 First Ever Teaching Institute Technology Committee
Mar 2009 Fishing in the Academic Senate's McElligot Pool Faculty Leadership Development Committee
Nov 2022 Five Years Later and Questions Remain Data and Research Committee
Mar 2009 Fixing" the California Community College System Futures Ad Hoc Committee
Feb 2019 Flexibility, Compromise, and Leadership in Decision—Making: AB705 Regulatory Process as a Case Study President
Sep 2010 Focus on Equity and Diversity (Interviews with Stanback Stroud Diversity Award winner, Nicholas Arnold, and Regina Stanback Stroud) Equity and Diversity Action Committee
Oct 2017 Focus on Transfer: ADTs, UCTP Degrees, and Community College Bachelor’s Degree Programs Executive Committee
Jul 2020 Foreword President
May 2022 Foreword President
Dec 2008 Forging Alliances-Inside and Outside the College Executive Committee
Dec 2004 Four Policy Issues: Fees, Textbooks, Degrees, and Corporatization Educational Policies Committee
Oct 2002 French Fries, Funding, and Student Success: Occasions for Unity Executive Committee
May 2022 From Intent to Impact: Being Antiracist is Not a Passive Endeavor
Feb 2006 From the Ashes of CAN Rises C-ID Executive Committee
Dec 2003 From the Executive Director Executive Director
Nov 2021 From the President’s Desk: Governance in the New Normal President