10+1
Faculty designing new courses in Cybersecurity or Biotechnology are engaging in this part of the 10+1.
What is Curriculum (Area #1)?
This is the legal act that governs meeting documentation and agenda notice requirements.
What is the Ralph M. Brown Act?
This governing body has the ultimate legal authority over the college/district.
What is the Board of Trustees?
Faculty setting placement standards for Math and English are operating under this area.
What is standards for student preparation and success (Area #5)?
Adding a new noncredit ESL program would fall under this part of the 10+1 purview.
What is educational program development (Area #4)?
This state organization provides leadership, training, and resources for all local Academic Senates.
What is the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC)?
Title 5 requires governing boards to “consult collegially” with this body on academic and professional matters.
Whether Incomplete grades should automatically turn into an F after a certain time is governed here.
What is grading policies (Area #3)?
The Senate and Administration consult about how faculty engage in professional development because of this part of the 10+1.
What is Policies for Faculty Professional Development Activities (Area #8)?
Local Senates often pass these formal statements to record positions or actions.
What are resolutions?
This is the CCSF Board Policy and Administrative Procedure that covers participatory governance at the college.
What is BP 2.07 and AP 2.07 Participatory Governance?
If the Senate is aligning its course outlines of record with C-ID descriptors for transfer, they are working under this 10+1 area.
What is Curriculum (Area #1)?
If the Senate weighs in on how many office hours faculty should provide for students, or how much time a course should require outside of class, they are working under this 10+1 area.
What is Standards or Policies Regarding Student Preparation & Success (Area #5)?
Each community college’s Academic Senate can send delegates to this statewide event held twice a year.
Faculty deciding how to appoint senators or representatives to district-level committees are working under this part of the 10+1.
What is governance structures related to faculty (Area #6)?
Revising an existing nursing program to meet new state licensure standards is part of this area.
What is educational program development (Area #4)?
If the College and Senate agree to work together implementing a new policy or procedure that requires mutual agreement, they are working in this part of the 10+1.
What is the “+1” (Other academic and professional matters as mutually agreed upon)?
This guiding principle ensures faculty are central to decisions about curriculum, degree requirements, and student success.
What is faculty primacy in academic and professional matters?
This state law established the framework for shared governance in California community colleges in 1988.
What is AB1725?
If the Senate recommends adding a local graduation requirement - they are working in this part of the 10+1.
What is Degree & Certificate Requirements (Area #2)?