Meeting observation of community college faculty senate

Meeting observation of community college faculty senate

Introduction

Community college faculties have always limited autonomy or nonexistent in regard to human resources, property management and Heritage, funding, staffing and selection of students, tuition and the size, composition and terms of reference governing bodies. Owing to this fact they face many problems regarding planning for the long-term governance in post-secondary education. The college I visited was also facing certain issues regarding governance principle in post-secondary education and in order to resolve those issues a meeting was held between the faculty members of community college. In this paper, a reflection upon that meeting is given.

Discussion

The meeting was attended by all the faculty members of the community college and was presided by the faculty chair of the senate. In the meeting different strategies to attain the long-term planning goals were discussed by all the members.

The first discussed in the meeting was about increasing the corporation between full-time and part-time faculty in order to raise the integration of school community. Upon inquiring by the faculty chair one faculty member highlighted that within institutions of higher education, a fundamental challenge on the reform modes of governance and management is the attitude of administrative staff and academic. Owing to this fact, it has been recognized that a major change can be achieved training sessions and interactions among the full-time and part time staff. In some of the universities visited, this has helped break down barriers between units previously strictly separated but between both kinds of staff.

Addressing student financing is one of the most pressing issues facing by the post-secondary education system in the community and was discussed on priority to be resolved. One of the members informed the faculty chair and rest of the members that higher-than-average tuition costs colleges have led to large debts for many students and discouraged others from attending the colleges. One of the proposed strategies was that financial issues are generally highly regulated with only a small part of the college budget for strategic investment. Even where financial responsibility has been delegated, the scope was minimal since the detailed conditions of the grant are determined by the donor funds. They come in large part of the costs of tuition, contracts and projects. The situation varies "who has" such income, college or faculties. A sign of this changing power of colleges is more convenient more common to ...