Senate Projects
Academic Senate sets annual goals while also working on significant multi-year initiatives. Below is a link to the current annual goals as well as past annual goals since the 2022-23 academic year.
At the bottom of the page is a list of ongoing and completed multi-year projects. The project links include more documentation than can be provided by meeting minutes.
If you would like to suggest a new goal or project, please contact an Academic Senate officer or representative or come to one of our Senate meetings.
| Project | Description |
| Class Cancellation Guidelines | Guidance on how to work with faculty and factors to consider before canceling a class. |
| Faculty Survey | Survey measuring faculty attitudes related to evaluation, transparency, and other issues on campus . |
| Arts at Cañada | Conversations about how to support and grow the arts at the college. |
| Class Enrollment Maximums | This project aims to create policy and faculty-driven procedures for setting course enrollment maximums. |
| Online Education | Conversations and decisions regarding the opportunities presented by the Online Education Initiative. |
| Enrollment Management | Discussion regarding processes of strategic enrollment management. |
| Professional Development | This initiative aims to re-envision professional development to serve faculty, staff and administrators |
| Program Development & Discontinuance | This initiative aims to define processes for new program development and for PIV |
| Program Review & Planning | This project aims to refine the Annual Planning and Program Review forms and process for instructional programs. |
| Reassigned Time Allocation | This project aims to create a transparent process for allocating non-instructional assignments to faculty. |