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Developing Faculty Participation and
Leadership:Building a Team of
Leaders
Developing Faculty Participation and
Leadership:Building a Team of
Leaders
Dan CrumpAmerican River College
Stephanie DumontGolden West College
Wheeler NorthSan Diego Miramar College
Academic Senate LeadershipAcademic Senate Leadership
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
Academic Senate LeadershipAcademic Senate Leadership
We are all learning.The best leaders are the
ones that continue to learn.Learn your strengths and
weaknesses and the areas you need balance in.
Learn to delegate.
Academic Senate LeadershipAcademic Senate Leadership
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Problems that limit faculty participationProblems that limit faculty participation
What limits faculty participation in the Academic Senate on your campus?
Personal Reasons for Limited Faculty Participation
Personal Reasons for Limited Faculty Participation
ApathyNo time/too busy alreadyPersonality conflictsHistorical issuesFear/self-doubt about servingOther personal reasons?
Institutional Reasons for Limited Faculty Participation
Institutional Reasons for Limited Faculty Participation
Friction between veteran and new faculty
Constituency representation on committees is not balanced
The same people do everything Committees don’t accomplish
anything Other institutional reasons?
Solutions – Begin with visionSolutions – Begin with vision
"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." -John Erskine, The Complete Life
What is your vision? Where are you going?
"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." -John Erskine, The Complete Life
What is your vision? Where are you going?
Solutions – Develop a teamSolutions – Develop a team
"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." Warren G. Bennis
"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." Warren G. Bennis
Solutions – Where are you going?Solutions – Where are you going?
Develop goals – your own individual goals
Develop goals - collegially developed campus goals
Place your goals on the senate agenda with updates
Create a year-end report and evaluation of what your senate has achieved
Solutions – Human ResourcesSolutions – Human Resources
Create lists of faculty members to choose from
Think broadly– participation across disciplines– student services – instructional– career technical– new and old faculty– diverse faculty– part-time faculty
Solutions – Human ResourcesSolutions – Human Resources
Get suggestions from committee chairs and members for assignments
Get out-lyers involvedVisit departments and talk about
your plans -- get to know your facultyAsk people in person -- it’s harder to
refuse immediately
Solutions – Human ResourcesSolutions – Human Resources
Use new faculty orientation to introduce the senate and shared governance issues
Conduct local workshops and faculty development to generate interest and enthusiasm
Match people and their skills and interests to assignments
Solutions – Human ResourcesSolutions – Human Resources
Encourage veteran faculty to mentor the new faculty
Invite new faculty to senate and committee meetings to observe
Advertise the “wins” and accomplishments on committees
Value and esteem faculty work - nominate participants for awards
Strategic solutionsStrategic solutions
Try to get compensation to recognize the importance of the work done
Publicize compensation opportunities for assignments
Work for appropriate constituency representation on committees
Strategic solutionsStrategic solutions
Create faculty co-chairs to foster teamwork
Work with your bargaining unit to ensure reassigned time and faculty pay for senate work during intersessions and summer
Coordinate with your bargaining unit so that you do not duplicate work or overlap areas of responsibility
Other SolutionsOther Solutions
What has worked on your campus?
Academic Senate LeadershipAcademic Senate Leadership
“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."
Elaine Agather
Other ResourcesOther Resources
Review Title 5 and the Education Code (remember this is changing as we speak)
Know the senate’s authority - Ten plus One (10+1) Carry the card Add it to your senate
agenda
Other ResourcesOther Resources
Use data available at the CCCCO website http://www.cccco.edu 50% law 75:25 FTES Faculty Obligation Number Fiscal Data Abstract ARCC
Other ResourcesASCCC Can Help
Other ResourcesASCCC Can Help
Send faculty to ASCCC institutes and plenary sessions
Use ASCCC Website with links---www.asccc.org
Direct questions or issues to the ASCCC Office
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an Art"
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an Art"