WHEREAS, Faculty Senate believes that Academic Department Assistants (ADAs) are an irreplaceable source of support for students, serving frequently as a first point of contact as students navigate their academic experience at Palomar College;
\nWHEREAS, ADAs provide unparalleled support for Faculty in their innumerable out-of- classroom tasks including supporting Department Chairs in fulfilling their duties;
\nWHEREAS, the plan presented to Faculty Senate on November 13, 2023 and November 27, 2023 did not include any mention of a plan to eliminate all ADAs and replace them with one additional Divisional Academic Assistant (DAA) per division and six new schedulers to be shared among all divisions;
\nWHEREAS, Faculty Senate expressed support on December 11, 2023 for an academic restructuring plan with the proviso that several important questions, including a question of adequate classified staff support for the proposed structure, were addressed and satisfactorily answered by the District;
\nWHEREAS, the District still has not provided answers to those questions to Faculty Senate;
\nWHEREAS, Faculty Senate leadership joined leadership from PFF and CCE in strongly objecting to a reorganization plan to eliminate all ADAs and replace them with one additional Divisional Academic Assistant (DAA) per division and six new schedulers to be shared among all division and requested greater transparency from the District regarding the academic restructuring plan;
\nWHEREAS, from the information provided by the District in the May 3, 2024 campus email, it is understood by the Faculty Senate that the District will not eliminate ADA positions.
\nRESOLVED, Faculty Senate asserts that ADAs are a critical contributor to student, faculty, and department success and further asserts any Department who desires to keep the long-time ADA structure in their department must be allowed to do so;”<\/p>\n
“RESOLVED, Faculty Senate urges the District to ensure that every department that wants an ADA to support student, department, and faculty success will have at least one ADA (or more) based on ADA workload;
\nRESOLVED, Faculty Senate urges the District to provide responses to the questions and concerns raised in provisio with our initial support of the academic division restructure plan;
\nRESOLVED, Faculty Senate asserts that real transparency, collaboration, and trustworthiness are necessary to move the College forward in meaningful ways;
\nRESOLVED, Faculty Senate asserts that the Faculty Senate be included in all future discussions regarding any restructuring that impacts faculty to ensure faculty voice is
\nheard.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"