Rostrum

Welcome to the Senate Rostrum! Below is the collection of articles, starting with the most recent.
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April 2024
February 2024
November 2023
April 2023
February 2023
November 2022
May 2022
April 2022
February 2022
July 2020

Latest Rostrum Articles

Date Title Sort descending Committee Authors
Feb 2023 Assembly Bills, Prerequisites, and Transfer Curriculum Committee
Sep 2016 Asserting the Academic Senate’s Voice: The Importance of Relationships and Education President
Dec 2006 Assessing the Assessors Unassigned
May 2007 Assessment Anxiety in the Air Unassigned
Feb 2015 Automatic Awarding of Degrees and Certificates – Considerations for Local Senates Educational Policies Committee
Nov 2022 Awards Season Is Here Standards and Practices Committee
Apr 2023 Awards Season: Congratulations to Award Recipients Standards and Practices Committee
Apr 2023 Baccalaureate Expansion in the California Community Colleges Executive Committee
Jan 2010 Basic Skills – The Front Line Faculty are Often Adjuncts; How Do we Support and Involve Them? BSI Steering Committee
Dec 2010 Basic Skills 30-Unit Limit – Do We Need a Change? Executive Committee
Mar 2009 Basic Skills and Career Technical Education (CTE )-Contextualized Learning Vocational Education Committee
Oct 2001 Basic Skills Committee Focuses on Instruction Unassigned
Mar 2007 Basic Skills Initiative Basic Skills Committee
Jan 2010 Basic Skills Initiative Work - We Have Gone Far and Deep! Basic Skills Committee
Nov 2005 Basic Skills Students - Do We Really Want Them to Succeed? Unassigned
Feb 1999 Basic Skills Survey Results Basic Skills Committee
Sep 2007 Basic Skills: A Conversation Basic Skills Committee
Dec 2007 Basic Skills: Opportunities for Transformation Basic Skills Committee
Feb 2006 Been There, Done That Unassigned
Dec 2008 Behind the Green Curtain: The Accreditation Visit Unveiled, or Where do Those Accreditation Recommendations Come from Anyway? Accreditation Committee
Feb 2020 Best Practices for Faculty Involvement in Student Equity and Achievement Program Plans Equity and Diversity Action Committee
Apr 2020 Best Practices for Student Involvement in the Student Equity and Achievement Plan and Implementation Equity and Diversity Action Committee
Feb 2015 Best Practices for the Development of New Courses Curriculum Committee
May 2015 Beyond Compliance: Effectively Engaging the Violence Against Women Act Equity and Diversity Action Committee
Mar 2016 Beyond Efficient Curriculum Approval Processes – Timely Catalog Publication Curriculum Committee