ERIC Number: ED275383
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1984
Pages: 36
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Toward a More Effective Senate. Working Draft #2.
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento.
This booklet contains materials designed to assist local academic senate leaders in forming and leading stronger and more effective senates. Section I explains the sources and objectives of the booklet. Section II looks at the role of academic senates in California community colleges, while section III considers the characteristics of effective senate structures. Section IV highlights internal techniques for senate success related to continuity, communication, and leadership development. Sections V through VII discuss the relations of local senates with the statewide academic senate, with boards of trustees, and with collective bargaining agents. Section VIII examines the faculty role in accreditation, and section IX provides a list of state-level organizations concerned with the community colleges. Finally, appendices present state legislation affecting the academic senates. (LAL)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Note: Prepared by the Relations with Local Senates Committee. Section 9 contains small print.