ACADEMIC SENATE
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The Academic Senate for El Camino College fosters the effective participation by community college faculty in all academic and professional matters; develops, promotes, and acts upon policies responding to collegewide concerns; and serves as the official voice of the faculty of El Camino College in academic and professional matters.
"In order to have a formal and effective procedure for participating in the formation and implementation of district policies on academic and professional matters, we, the Faculty of the El Camino Community College District, do hereby establish a representative organization, known as the Academic Senate of El Camino College. The Academic Senate shall be fully empowered to act as the representative and executive arm of the Faculty, acting for all the members of the Faculty on an elected basis."
"To provide an organization through which the faculty will have the means for full participation in the formulation of policy on academic and professional matters relating to the college including those in Title 5, Subchapter 2, Sections 53200-53206. California Administrative Code. Specifically, as provided for in Board Policy 3605, the Board of Trustees will normally accept the recommendations of the Academic Senate on academic and professional matters as . . . listed below:
- Curriculum, including establishing prerequisites and placing courses within disciplines
- Degree and certificate requirements
- Grading Policies
- Educational Program development
- Standards and policies regarding student preparation and success
- District and college governance structures, as related to Senator roles
- Faculty roles and involvement in accreditation process, including self-study and annual reports
- Policies for faculty professional development activities
- sp; Processes for program review
- Processes for institutional planning and budge development, and
- Other academic and professional matters as mutually agreed upon between the Board of Trustees and the Academic Senate."
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