Yearly Highlights

SCE Academic Senate Highlights 2003/04

Submitted by Andrea Sibley-Smith, SCE Academic Senate President

1. Marsha Elliott, faculty and coordinator of the High School Program, was named the Teacher of the year for 03/04,.Congratulations Marsha!
2. Kathryn Fay, DSPS faculty/counselor, decided to retire after 26 years of service and devotion to DSPS students and SCE. She will be missed by all!
3. Barbara Bennett was congratulated for her 3 years of service as the United Faculty President and has worked long and hard to serve all the full-time faculty at NOCCCD.
4. The SCE Senate hosted the very successful Jan. 04 Joint Senates/Joint Faculty Unions meeting which was held at Anaheim Almost 100 participants composed of faculty, managers, administration and several board members spent the day on numerous topics : accreditation issues, budget issues, and a review of shared governance. Guest speakers included Alan Frey from CCA, Greg Gilbert from the ASCCC Executive Committee, and Kate Clark, ASCCC President. The day also included a panel discussion of the Full-Time Faculty Obligation issue and a showing of Benjamin Zander’s film “Leadership-An Art of Possibility” .
5. SCE Senate members participated in the ASCCC Conferences in Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
6. The SCE Senate worked on a number of items for the SCE Strategic Plan including completing the Orientation Handbook for Faculty, the SCE Senate webpage was finished, and adjunct faculty email addresses were collected as a means to communicate faculty issues.
7. The SCE Senate President worked very closely with the other faculty groups all year  to deal with the issue of the Full-Time Faculty Obligation recalculation proposal. The faculty groups were able to come up with a position that was advantageous to both faculty and the District.
8. SCE Senate members, under the leadership of President Sibley-Smith, and in conjunction with the other constituent groups, reviewed Board Policies and Procedures all year as a part of the complete review being undertaken by Chancellor’s Cabinet.
9. SCE Senate members participated in 18 SCE and District shared governance committees in 2003-04.