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Developing Faculty Participation and Leadership

Discover strategies to promote faculty leadership and increase their participation in committees and decision-making processes. Address both personal and institutional obstacles to create a more engaged and impactful faculty community.

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Developing Faculty Participation and Leadership

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  1. Developing Faculty Participation and Leadership

  2. Faculty Leadership “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

  3. On Leadership • We are all learning. • The best leaders are the ones that continue to learn. • Learn your strengths and weaknesses and the areas you need balance in. • Learn to delegate.

  4. Personal Reasons for Limited Faculty Participation • Apathy • No time/too busy already • Personality conflicts • Historical issues • Fear/self-doubt about serving • Other personal reasons?

  5. Institutional Reasons for Limited Faculty Participation • Friction between old and new timers • Non-tenured are advised not to participate • Too many managers on committees • The same people do everything • Committees don’t accomplish anything • Other institutional reasons?

  6. Solutions – Develop a team "Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."   Warren G. Bennis

  7. Solutions – Where are you going? • Develop goals – your own individual goals • Develop goals - collegially developed campus goals • Place your goals on visual place with updates • Create a year-end report and evaluation of what has been achieved

  8. Solutions – Human Resources • Create lists of faculty members to choose from • Don’t rely on those you know well • Think broadly • participation across disciplines • student services • instructional • career technical • new and old faculty • diverse faculty

  9. Solutions – Human Resources • Get suggestions from chair(s) and members of the committee for faculty service • Get complainers involved • Visit departments and talk about your plans -- get to know your faculty • Ask people in person -- it’s harder to refuse immediately

  10. Solutions – Human Resources • Use new faculty orientation to educate faculty on shared governance issues • Conduct local workshops and faculty development to generate interest and enthusiasm • Match people and their skills to positions

  11. Solutions – Human Resources • Encourage older faculty to mentor the new faculty • Invite new hires to committee meetings to observe • Advertise the “wins” and accomplishments on committees • Value and esteem faculty work - nominate participants for awards

  12. Strategic solutions • Try to get stipends to recognize the importance of the work done • Be transparent -- publish reassigned time and/or stipends for assignments • Use service to the college as a factor in earning a sabbatical

  13. Strategic solutions • Try to limit the number of managers on your committees, create faculty co-chairs to foster teamwork • Work with your bargaining agent to ensure reassigned time and faculty compensation • Coordinate with your union so that you do not duplicate work or overlap areas of responsibility

  14. Other Resources • Review Title 5 and the Education Code (remember this is changing as we speak) • Know the senate’s authority - Ten plus One • Understand your Role as faculty Leader

  15. Other Resources • Use data available at the CCCCO website http://www.cccco.edu • 50% law • 75:25 • FTES • Faculty Obligation Number • Fiscal Data abstract

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