When Bad Shift Happens To Good Colleges… Keeping Faculty Leadership Involved in Times of Crisis Julie Bruno, Sierra College Dolores Davison, Foothill College

First: A Survey Strengths and weaknesses in dealing with the Academic and Professional Matters Policies and Processes for…Notes: Good to goNeeds tweakingNeeds overhaulHelp!Priority Enrollment management Curriculum Degree and Certificate Requirements Grading Policies Program development, viability and discontinuance Student Preparation and Success Governance structures Accreditation Faculty Development Program Review Institutional Planning Budget development and reductions Connection between program review, planning and resource allocation +1

What are the Big Issues? Budget Budget… But what else?

“When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What should you be doing as a faculty leader during these times? Enrollment management policies and procedures: are you part of these decisions? Are other faculty? Does your college have a program viability/discontinuance policy? If not, you should be involved in its creation (it’s part of the 10 +1) Is your program review and budget process integrated? If not, begin those discussions.

And…Accreditation Use accreditation and other external processes to your advantage: the threat of outside bodies may have more impact than your voice alone.

How Else Can Faculty Affect Change?

Resources Senate Papers:  Enrollment Management Revisited (Spring 2009)  A Budget Primer for Faculty Leaders (Fall 2009)  Faculty Role in Budget (Fall 2001) Rostrum articles  Updating the Faculty Role in Planning and Budgeting Paper (November 2009)  Budget Processes: Maintaining the in Budget Crisis (December 2008)