Handbook Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Welcome from the Academic Senate President Fellow Educators, our academic and professional lives are inextricably bound by our students and by the challenges sent to us by the state. We may not be into politics, but politics are definitely into us. We must converse.
Adjunct faculty are welcome, too.
The academic senate is a representative body of faculty who meet to discuss and act on educational issues which affect the quality of teaching and learning. This organization is designed to represent the needs of faculty and accept input from a campus constituency interested in academic and professional matters. The Senate's primary function is, as the representative body of the faculty, to make recommendations to the administration of the college and to the Board of Trustees with respect to academic and professional matters. The short story of the Academic Senate is that it is the legal embodied representative of faculty on all academic and professional matters. With disciplined minds, going beyond maintenance and seeing more courageous creativity, we will contribute towards strengthening this delicate democracy we are living in.