Academic Senate News

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

April is typically a month of abundant rain (not in Southern California). However, April does bring a “shower” of activity to Academic Senate.

Pay attention, as many board policies and administrative procedures come through the last few meetings of the year. These provide the WHAT & HOW of our college business. All the Academic Senate subcommittees provide either written or oral reports at the April 15th meeting. Learn about what has transpired over the year and what is in store for next year.

All members of the MiraCosta College community are invited to join our meetings via zoom; or listen as it is streamed live.

Lastly, watch your emails for announcements around the Great Committee Call and the Office Derby (full-time faculty only).

In unity,

Luke

Luke Lara, Ed.D.

my pronouns: he, him, his, él

Email: llara@miracosta.edu
Website: miracosta.edu/governance/academic-senate

-The ASG dedicated our Senate meeting on 3/11 to Jim Gonzales to celebrate him and all his hard work at MiraCosta. Though we mourn his passing, we honor his legacy at MiraCosta every day with his inspiration of working with passion. Student Life & Leadership is sponsoring the '‘Jim’ Gonzales Emerging Leader Scholarship." You can donate that effort through this Donor Form.

-ASG Applications for elected positions are now open! Students can visit miracosta.edu/Engage to find the application for 2022-2033. DEADLINE is April 10th

-The ASG's San Elijo Workgroup drafted a letter to send to the city of Encinitas advocating for bike safety around the San Elijo campus. This letter was approved by Student Senate.

-The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee presented a hate crimes resolution at Student Senate in response to the recent hate crime against Jewish peoples in one of the Oceanside high school district. This resolution proposed a new student-led organization should be started on campus to support the targeted community.

-Student Senate approved the recommendations from Legislative Affairs committee for resolutions that will be presented at this year's SSCCC assembly.

-Student Senate approved two funding requests

1. Commencement speaker & poet + runners-up to receive a gift of cap, gown, tassel & diploma frame ($500.00)
2. Purchasing of Phi Theta Kappa stoles for students who cannot purchase one ($925.00)

And as always, all ASG Committee and Senate meetings are in engage! https://miracosta.campuslabs.com/engage/

At the Academic Senate meeting on 4/1/22, the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) team consisting of Ben Gamboa, Delores Loedel, and Donny Munshower, presented information related to CPL and requested feedback from the Senator's constituents.

Click on the image for a link to the presentation materials. Slides 1-5 cover a summary of CPL. Slide #6 includes a link to the CPL Implementation Framework and slide #7 includes the feedback that the team is looking for from faculty members.

• Join Thao Ha and Denise Stephenson on Friday, April 22 at 1 pm for an interactive discussion of the campus read: Equity Talk to Equity Walk. https://miracosta-edu.zoom.us/j/97833864512
• The AS has researched equity-based data coaching and votes as this newsletter goes to press on a request for a proposal from PDP. Conversations with the Cultural Curriculum Collective, Strong Workforce Institute, VPI Denée Pecarmona, IPRC and RPIE will be needed to envision how a data coaching program can be institutionalized at MiraCosta.
• PDP and DEqCC are reviewing two Cultural Competence trainings proposed by Charlie Ng as onboarding for all MiraCostans.
• Throughout this academic year, PDP has been exploring mentorship in collaboration with DEqCC and TREC. Specifically, PDP is considering what revisions would improve the Lodestar and First Friday tenure faculty orientation pieces. But the question of how to better support associate faculty is also in the mix. If you have ideas, please send them to Denise Stephenson.
• PDP is looking for the next coordinator--is that you? See email from Luke Lara 3/28.

• In April, MOE is making it a priority to revise its committee charter and practices to reflect and exemplify the equitable and anti-racist priorities and practices we want in our online education environments.
• MOE meets 2nd and 4th Fridays, 9:30-11 am in Zoom. Please feel free to join us!

• The Awards Committee will be losing key member Victoria "Vicky" Noddings to retirement. We will miss Vicky's contributions, and ask that you to consider joining the committee; We need you!
• You are invited to join in the Awards Committee meeting on April 27th at 7:30 a.m. where we will continue our discussion on Associate Faculty recognition for years of service, plan on how to increase campus participation in nominating colleagues and programs for the awards offered and consider options on sponsoring awards specific to our Librarians and Counselors. The meeting will be held in hyflex format, live in room OC 3101 and on zoom.

The DEqCC committee will meet on April 22, 2022 via zoom:

https://miracosta-edu.zoom.us/j/93437323106
Meeting ID: 934 3732 3106