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Academic Senate

Academic Senate Governing Council 2009-2010

Officers:

• Martin Partlan, President partlanm@smccd.edu
  David Clay, Vice President clayd@smccd.edu
• Monica Malamud, Secretary malamudm@smccd.edu
• David Patterson, Treasurer pattersond@smccd.edu

Standing Committee Liaisons:

• Sharon Finn, Curriculum
• Denise Erickson, Professional Personnel

Division Representatives:

• Doug Hirzel, Science and Technology
  David Meckler, Humanities and Social Sciences
  Ana Miladinova, Business, Workforce and Athletics
  Karen Olesen and Kathy Sammut, Student Services

The Academic Senate-Governing Council provides for the effective participation of faculty in governance and assumes primary responsibility for making recommendations in the areas of curriculum and academic and professional standards.

2009-2010 Meetings

Academic Senate meetings are the 2nd and 4thThursday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Building 3, Room 104.

A discussion board has been set up to promote discussion among the Cañada faculty about issues facing the Academic Senate.

The following documents are available in pdf format which requires that you have Adobe Reader, available free from Adobe, installed on your computer.

Academic Senate Documents

• Constitution
• By Laws
• Professional Expectations Statement, Adopted 1998

• Agendas	Minutes
  	Minutes 8/27/09
  	Minutes 9/10/09
  	Minutes 9/17/09

Useful links:

http://www.smccd.net/accounts/academicsenate/

http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/

The Brown Act: 
http://www.cfac.org/Law/BrownAct/Text/ba_text.html

Calfornia Education Code:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-in/calawquery?codesection=edc&codebody=&hits=20

AB 1725:
http://www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us/LocalSenates/AB1725.htm

Title V:
http://government.westlaw.com/linkedslice/default.asp?SP=CCR-1000

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