1. Developing Faculty Participation and Leadership

2. Faculty Leadership
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy ( ), 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
50% law
75:25
FTES
Faculty Obligation Number
Fiscal Data abstract