Faculty Senate 2023-2024 Goals

Goal 1: Keep the faculty of Palomar College informed through intentional communication and providing opportunities forfaculty voices to be included.

• To ensure faculty stay informed about important work being discussed and implemented through shared governance, all Committee Chairs or Senate Representatives will provide monthly reports to the FacultySenate.
  • Once a month, the senate will send out a newsletter to faculty to share information from the reports, as wellas, topics of importance from the senate.
  • Once a month, all reports will be reviewed and discussed as a Senate Agenda Discussion Item
• As a large-scale impact to the college, the chair of the AB 928/1111 committee will be provide an update to thefaculty senate monthly through a Senate Agenda Discussion item.
• To connect the work of the Palomar faculty senate to the work of ASCCC, ASCCC resolutions and ASCCC liaisons will be incorporated into regular meetings as agenda items.
• To ensure there is continual opportunity for faculty to share their thoughts and feedback with faculty leadership, thesenate will work with the PFF to develop an annual Faculty survey to inform the ongoing work of the senate andPFF.

Goal 2: Bring clarity regarding faculty responsibilities

• To address equity among the workload and amount of reassignment time of faculty reassigned time positions, the senate will conduct an analysis of the roles, responsibilities, committee membership, and overall workload of the senate reassigned time positions and provide a report to the faculty senate for discussion.
• To address questions and concerns around faculty responsibilities for office hours, syllabi content, and participation in shared governance, the faculty senate will work with the PFF to draft language tocommunicate responsibilities to all faculty.
• To better understand faculty participation in shared governance and possible opportunities for improvements, the senate will conduct an analysis of historical participation of FT and PT Faculty in shared governance.

Goal 3: Work with EEDCC and the CDO to clarify the role of the faculty senate in the completion of College DEIAAinitiatives.

• To ensure the faculty senate is taking the appropriate actions to support and implement the colleges’ DEIAA initiatives, EEDCC will provide the Faculty Senate with clear and specific recommendations based on the 10+1 of the senate’s roles and responsibilities in supporting Colleges’ DEIAA initiatives.
• Work with CDO to help develop college wide DEIAA goals.