1. Fall 2018 Overview from Curriculum Regional Meeting (11/17)
Hot Topics
AB 705 and Title 5
Roles of the Local Academic Senate/Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Union
Noncredit Curriculum Streamlining and AB 705
UC TCA, Articulation, and UC Transfer Pathways
Certificates, Degrees, and Curricular Processes with the Student Centered Funding Formula

2. Effective practices
Mutual understanding of roles/responsibilities and genuine respect between Academic Senate and Union
Participation of all faculty (including part-time)
Direction from local board policies, administrative procedures, and contract
Written agreements between Senate and Union
Generate when both bodies are not stressed by conflict or other major concerns

3. AUTHORITY OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
Ed Code 70901(b)(1)(E) Minimum standards governing procedures established by governing boards of community college districts to ensure faculty, staff, and students the right to participate effectively in district and college governance, and the opportunity to express their opinions at the campus level and to ensure that these opinions are given every reasonable consideration, and the right of academic senates to assume primary responsibility for making recommendations in the areas of curriculum and academic standards. Ed Code 70902(b)(7) Establish procedures that are consistent with minimum standards established by the board of governors to ensure faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to express their opinions at the campus level, to ensure that these opinions are given every reasonable consideration, to ensure the right to participate effectively in district and college governance, and to ensure the right of academic senates to assume primary responsibility for making recommendations in the areas of curriculum and academic standards.

4. Salary and Working Conditions
Authority of a Union
Salary and Working Conditions
California Government Code section 3543 (a)
(a) Public school employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations.  Public school employees shall have the right to represent themselves individually in their employment relations with the public school employer, except that once the employees in an appropriate unit have selected an exclusive representative and it has been recognized pursuant to Section or certified pursuant to Section , an employee in that unit shall not meet and negotiate with the public school employer.

5. Collective bargaining AGENT (Union) – Areas of authority
a. School calendar b. Compensation c. Wages d. Hours of employment e. Terms and conditions of employment – health/welfare benefits f. Leave g. Transfer and reassignment policies h. Safety conditions
i. Class size
j. Procedures for evaluation of employees
k. Organization security
l. Procedures for processing grievances
m. Layoff procedures
n. Alternative compensation or benefits for employees adversely affected by pension limitations
o. Additional compensation or salary schedule based on criteria other than years of training and experience

6. Possible areas of overlap
Academic Calendar
Faculty Evaluations
Tenure Review Process
Faculty Hiring Procedures
Enrollment Management
Program Viability/Discontinuance
Office Assignment
Textbooks
Professional Development

7. Enrollment management
Senate
Determining curricular offerings fall under the “10+1”:
Curriculum and prerequisites
Processes for planning and budget
Processes for program review
Policies for student preparation and success
Union
Workload issues surrounding
Class size
Staffing
Academic calendar
Teaching schedules
Compensation
Other…

8. Certificates summary Units Certificate Name 16 semester or more
Must be submitted to CCCCO for chaptering, counts in SCFF
Certificate of Achievement
8 semester/ to less than 16 semester/
May be submitted to CCCCO for chaptering, does not count in SCFF
Certificate of Achievement if and only if submitted to CCCCO for chaptering
Less than 8 semester
May not be submitted to CCCCO for chaptering, does not count in SCFF
Skills Certificate, Certificate of Accomplishment, or other locally-named certificate
0 - Noncredit
Must be submitted to CCCCO for chaptering, does not count in SCFF
Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Competency

9. Student Centered Funding Formula
Student Success Allocation—Measures
All Students
Promise Grant Premium
Pell Grant Premium
Associate degrees for transfer granted 4 6
Associate degrees granted (excluding ADTs) 3
4.5
Baccalaureate degree granted
Credit certificates (16 units or more) granted 2
Completion of transfer-level mathematics and English courses within first academic year of enrollment
Successful transfer to four-year university
1.5
2.25
Completion of nine or more CTE units 1
Attainment of regional living wage