DS-CITY_COLLEGE-ACADEMIC_SENATE

Welcome to the Academic Senate

San Diego City College Academic Senate Logo: Equity, advocacy, transparency. Since 1914

This Canvas site is a place where we will house resources and information related to Academic Senate that may be helpful to our campus community. It's a work in progress and a lot of information to organize, so please let us know how we can make it more useful through this google form Links to an external site. - what should we add? what should we change? what should we delete? 

To navigate the site:

  • Click on the roles at the bottom of this page to get started.
  • Read through the information on the tabs below for an overview of the Academic Senate.
  • Find resources and information using the navigation menu on the left.

Reach out to us if you have questions or need guidance!
-Your Academic Senate Exec Team

 

In 1963, an Assembly Concurrent Resolution asked the State Board of Education (which at that time had a junior college bureau) to establish academic senates “…for the purposes of representing [faculty] in the formation of policy on academic and professional matters …” While there were at the time local academic senates, this resolution gave senates legal recognition and a specific jurisdiction—academic and professional matters. In 1967, legislation was enacted to create the Board of Governors and the Chancellor’s Office for the California Community Colleges.

In 1968 Norbert Bischof (Math and Philosophy, Merritt College), called the first statewide meet­ing of local academic senate presidents to explore ways to create a state senate to represent local senates at the Chancellor’s Office and before the Board of Governors. A constitution was drafted in May 1968, ratified statewide, and approved by the Board of Governors in October 1969; the Academic Senate incorporated as a nonprofit organization in November 1970.


Additional Resources