Faculty Commitment to Student Learning

Spring
2012
Resolution Number
19.03
 
Contact
Assigned to
President
Category
Professional Standards
Status
Not Addressed
Status Report

I have no idea of what we would do with this one either. 

Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges continues to support Resolution 2.01 F08 opposing the use of student achievement of student learning outcome as a criteria of faculty evaluation;

Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has long recognized—in its resolutions, adopted papers, committee structure, and institutes—that the students we serve are more diverse and varied in background and skills than in any other segment of public higher education and that a changing student population requires reflection on and adaptation of the means used to educate students; and

Whereas, The Academic Senate of California Community Colleges believes that all effective teachers regularly observe and respond to the achievement of their students in meeting course, program, and institutional student learning outcomes;

Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourage local senates to identify means whereby faculty can communicate as efficiently as possible the methods they use from term to term to improve the success of their students as a method of documenting the challenges arising from the educating of an exceptionally diverse student population and the methods faculty use in their pursuit of that goal.

MSC Disposition: Local Senates