Rostrum

Welcome to the Senate Rostrum! Below is the collection of articles, starting with the most recent.

See a list of our full Rostrum Archive.

Rostrum article deadlines

March 3, 2024.
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Past Rostrum Publications:

November 2023
April 2023
February 2023
November 2022
May 2022
April 2022
February 2022
July 2020

Latest Rostrum Articles

Date Title Committee Sort descending Authors
Oct 1998 Ventura District Reviews Committee Structures, Develops Shared Governance Agreements President
Feb 2006 The Devil's in the Pragmatism President
Apr 2006 We Can, We Should-It's Right, It's Our Job President
Feb 2007 The Rules of the Game - And When to Break Them President
Dec 2010 Faculty Are Progressive! (Despite What You May Hear) President
Nov 2011 Perspectives on 1143 and 1440 President
Mar 2011 Enrollment Management in Very Challenging Times: What the LAO Says and What Faculty Should Do President
May 2011 Shift Happens President
Apr 2010 The Need for Full Time Faculty (again) President
Sep 2010 It Really is Like Making Sausage (Sacramento Update) President
Sep 2011 Perspectives on Student Success President
Sep 1997 The Academic Senate Faces Many Challenges President
May 2008 Taking Back the Concept of Accountability President
Sep 2008 The Statewide Academic Senate and Local Academic Senates President
Dec 2008 The Never-ending Question President
Mar 2009 Jumping on the Opportunity President
May 2009 A is for Accreditation: The New Scarlet Letter President
May 2009 On the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Academic Senate President
Sep 2009 How Does the Budget Situation Really Affect Us? President
Sep 2007 Change is in the Air President
Jan 2010 The Master Plan for Higher Education and the Missions of the California Community Colleges President
Nov 2009 The Accelerated Learning College, California Leadership Alliance for Student Success, and Embracing Faculty Leadership President
Nov 2009 Transfer Degrees—Elephants in the Room, Lines in the Sand, Hills to Die on, and Dead Horses President
May 2005 Promises to Keep President
Mar 2005 Taking AcCount: On Sacred Cows and Other Stock President