ASCCC Resources
The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) plays a vital role in representing faculty across the state's community colleges. It advocates academic and professional matters, ensuring that faculty voices are central in shaping policies that affect curriculum, governance, and student success. This page provides essential resources from the ASCCC to support faculty development, governance, and best practices across the college.
Below, you will find essential ASCCC resources organized by category.
Faculty Senate
- Local Senates Handbook
- Scenarios to Illustrate Effective Participation in District and College Governance
- Developing A Model for Effective Senate/Union Relations
- The Senate and Union Relationship: Understanding Their Roles and Working Together
- Budget Processes and the Faculty Role
- Protecting the Future of Academic Freedom During a Time of Significant Change
- Minimum Qualifications Handbook & Disciplines List
- Ensuring Effective Curriculum Approval Processes: A Guide for Local Senates
- Glossary of Terms
Faculty Evaluations
Curriculum
- Curriculum Committee: Role, Structure, Duties and Standards of Good Practice
- Noncredit Instruction: Opportunity and Challenge
- Setting Course Enrollment Maximums: Process, Roles, and Principles
- Program Discontinuance: A Faculty Perspective Revisited
Online Instruction
Program Review
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
- Guiding Principles for SLO Assessment
- Student Learning Outcomes Glossary
- SLO Symposium Collective Works
Faculty Development
Part-Time Faculty
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