Rostrum

Welcome to the Senate Rostrum! Below is the collection of articles, starting with the most recent.
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Past Rostrum Publications:

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
Nov 2009 There and Back Again: Moving Toward Content-Review Based Prerequisites Curriculum Committee
Oct 2014 There and Back Again: Serving on an ACCJC Accreditation Evaluation Team Executive Committee
Sep 2006 There are New Possibilities to Our Perennial Problems: Let's Get Radical! Unassigned
Mar 2009 Things Fall Apart: The Centre Can Hold-Reflections on Accreditation and Faculty Leadership Executive Committee
Feb 2006 Things That Can Go Wrong and How to Prevent Them Relations with Local Senates Committee
Sep 2004 Thinking Outside the Horse ACCJC Liaison
Sep 2011 Three “Takes” of a Course: Limiting Withdrawals and Repetition to Alleviate Substandard Grades Executive Committee
Feb 2008 Three Cups of Coffee Executive Committee
Apr 2024 Thrown Into the Deep End: Tips for Organizing and Leading Meetings President, Executive Committee
May 2022 Time for You to “Touch the Pole”
Apr 2023 Time to Modify Title 5 to Define Academic Freedom Educational Policies Committee
Feb 2019 Title 5 and Distance Education: Is Separate Course Review Enough? Executive Committee
May 2009 To Be MC D Or Not To Be MC D-That Was The Question Relations with Local Senates Committee
Dec 2006 To Diversify Faculty, Interrupt the Usual and Seize Opportunities Equity and Diversity Action Committee
Mar 2011 To Lick It or Click It: That is the Question Standards and Practices Committee
Feb 2022 To Promote or to Prevent Opportunity? Using an Equity-Minded Lens to Dispel Myths in the Equivalency Process Equity and Diversity Action Committee
Apr 2024 To Refer or Not to Refer? That is the Question Resolutions Committee, Executive Committee
Apr 2020 To Serve or Not to Serve: Considerations When Running for the ASCCC Executive Committee Executive Committee
Apr 2019 To Sign or Not to Sign? That is the Question of Every Academic Senate President Executive Committee
Mar 2007 To Teach or not to Teach, Executive Committee
Oct 2017 TOP Code Alignment Project and Impacts on Local Coding Curriculum Committee
Dec 2008 Tracking Legislation: The Two Year Process Legislative and Advocacy Committee
May 2011 Training New or Potential Faculty: Whose Responsibility Is It? Executive Committee
Sep 2011 Training Your Replacement Executive Committee
Jan 2010 Transfer Degree Déjà Vu Executive Committee