Developing Faculty Participation and

Leadership:A Spoon Full of Sugar

Developing Faculty Participation and

Leadership:A Spoon Full of Sugar

Dan CrumpAmerican River College

Janet FulksBakersfield College

Academic Senate LeadershipAcademic Senate Leadership

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), 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 old and new timers

Non-tenured are advised not to participate

Too many managers on committees 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 A leader is one who turns around to find others following.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 A leader is one who turns around to find others following.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

Don’t rely on those you know well Think broadly

– participation across disciplines– student services – instructional– career technical– new and old faculty– diverse faculty

Solutions – Human ResourcesSolutions – Human Resources

Get suggestions from chair(s) and members of the committee for faculty service

Get complainers involvedVisit departments and talk about

your plans -- get to know your faculty

Ask 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 to positions

Solutions – Human ResourcesSolutions – Human Resources

Encourage older faculty to mentor the new faculty

Invite new hires 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 stipends to recognize the importance of the work done

Be transparent -- publish reassigned time and/or stipends for assignments

Have your senate by-laws require senators to serve on committees

Use service to the college as a factor in earning a sabbatical

Strategic solutionsStrategic solutions

Try to limit the number of managers on your committees

Create faculty co-chairs to foster teamwork

Work with your bargaining agent to ensure reassigned time and faculty pay for senate work during intercessions and summer

Coordinate with your union 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 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

Other ResourcesASCCC Can HelpOther ResourcesASCCC Can Help

Send faculty to ASCCC institutes and plenary sessions

Use ASCCC Website with linksContact the Local Senates

CommitteeDirect questions or issues to the

ASCCC officers and executive director

"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"