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"