Meeting Announcement: Academic Senate Special Meeting, March 23rd at 1 p.m. in the Diego Rivera Theater
All faculty from all campuses are members of the Academic Senate.
"Special meetings of the Senate or Council may be called in the following ways: (a) by the President; (b) on petition of a majority of the Council; (c) on petition of 100 members of the Senate. No business other than that for which the special meetings are called shall be transacted at such meetings." [Constitution of the Academic Senate, Article VI]
A special meeting of the Academic Senate (all faculty) has been called by petition of 100 members of the Senate for Tuesday, March 23rd at 1:00 p.m. in the Diego Rivers Theater. Please plan to attend.
The agenda will be to consider, deliberate, and take actions regarding the March 25th policy resolution signed by Board of Trustees members Steve Ngo, Chris Jackson, and Milton Marks. Passage of these resolutions would establish a level of micromanaging and interference by an elected political board which will permanently damage every academic department at CCSF and imperil our accreditation and academic freedom. The special meeting will be held in the Diego Rivera Theatre on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, beginning at 1:00 and will be facilitated by Karen Saginor - Library. The meeting will be run under Robert's Rules of Order (Fred Teti - Math, Parliamentarian).
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MEETING FOR THE FUTURE OF ALL DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS AT CCSF — PLEASE ATTEND
Resolutions for consideration at this meeting should be sent to Karen Saginor ksaginor@ccsf.edu by 12 noon, Friday, March 19. Please send as a Word document (Word 2003 preferred) attached to email or as plain text within the body of the email. Academic Senate members are welcome to bring additional resolutions to the March 23 meeting. Proposed resolutions submitted by March 19 may be edited for length or combined with simililar resolutions. Resolutions received by March 19 will be considered first at the March 23 Special Meeting, then --- time permitting --- additional resolutions brought on the day of the Special Meeting on March 23 will be considered.
Look at this: http://stevengo.com
And this: http://ccsfaspres.wordpress.com
And this: http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/content/dam/ccsf/images/shared_governance/bd_resolution.pdf
AND GO TO THE BOARD MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT!
The BOT meeting is Thursday night in the Wellness Center on Ocean: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/VCFA/closed%20sessions/PDF_closed_sessions/2010/March_25_2010_Closed_session_notice.pdf
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Dear Colleagues,
Soon it will be clear that there is no threat to our academic freedom. The Board does not have final say, the Academic Senate does. Once this meeting makes clear and we all can see what has been pointed out to us by our Academic Senate reps and others, let's try to focus on the real, not perceived, threat. In fact, the tragic achievement gap revealed by the Chancellor's Report of 2009––and I urge you to read that report and allow yourselves to be moved by it--is not a threat, it's a reality.
After we get through the "special" meeting, let's return to a sincere and dedicated response to looking at every possible way that we can alleviate the pain caused by the fact that African American, Latino/a, Pacific Islander and Filipino as well as Native American students pass through our sequence at only a 20 % success rate while White and Asian students, though not doing a lot better, pass at a 50% rate.
Let's not forget the students, and the information that we now have that can allow us to reshape our program with a clear and brave focus on eradicating the racism, sexism, and all societal evils that make their way into our institutions. Let's remember that all across our country––and I urge you to just go on the internet and start reading about these same kinds of achievement gaps in all parts of our nation––, we are struggling with the new challenge to educators. In the 60's and 70's our country achieved, through great effort and much sacrifice, access to education for all. Today it's clear that students enter but that the access to completing a degree is possible for only a small number.
Let's not remain only defensive in our response, let's really take on Jim Sauve's "We Can Do Better," and let's all of us participate in framing a proposal that our entire college community will be proud of.
I propose that we, in fact, move the discussions about the Achievement Gap Report to a committee devoted to that alone, a committee that is not confined to only curriculum concerns, but that can address hiring concerns, professional development concerns, etc. A committee that has only 9 voting members is not a large enough venue for taking on the greatest challenge of this department in the almost 40 years I've been a member.
Let's think big, let's think change, let's think about how to take where we are, what we've accomplished to this point and taking it a step further. Let's embrace this challenge. Let's be willing to write one more revision!
Sincerely,
Mary
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