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Dear Campus Community and Academic Senate delegates,

Our Academic Senate is eager to work and collaborate with our faculty, our administration, our district and the ASCCC (Academic Senate of Californina Community Colleges).

The Academic Senate's primary fuction is to make recommendations with respect to academic and professional matters specified on the 10+1. 

  1. Curriculum including establishing prerequisites and placing courses within disciplines
  2. Degree and certificates requirements
  3. Grading policies
  4. Educational program development
  5. Standards or policies regarding student preparation and success
  6. District and college governance structures, as related to faculty roles
  7. Faculty roles and involvement in accreditation processes, including self-study and annual reports
  8. Policies for faculty professional development activities
  9. Processes for program review
  10. Processes for institutional planning and budget development                                             
  11. Other academic and professional matters as are mutually agreed upon between the governing board and the academic senate

Our senate meetings are every other Monday from 2:30 to 4:30pm at MS-140. The meetings are public and everyone is welcomed! The more engagement from our faculty, the more powerful our senate becomes. Senators have a crucial role as they represent their departments/ programs when voting on issues presented at the senate.

We are eager to be able to engage in these meaningful and debatable matters that fall under the purview of our 10+1. 

In unity,

María-José Zeledón-Pérez, Ed.D - Academic Senate President 


2022 - 2023 SDCC Academic Senate Executive Committee: Started Fall 2022

President: Maria-Jose Zeledon-Perez mzeledon@sdccd.edu
Past President & Comittee on Committees Chair: Mona Alsoraimi-Espiritu malsorai@sdccd.edu 
President of Chairs Cabinet: Soon-Ah Fadness sfadness@sdccd.edu 
Secretary: Norell Martinez nmartinez@sdccd.edu
Treasurer: Nick Slinglend nslingle@sdccd.edu 
Part-time Faculty Officer: Robert Chambers bchambers@sdccd.edu
Curriculum Review Committee Chair: Jen Boots jboots@sdccd.edu 

2022-2023 SDCC Academic Senate Meeting Dates

GENERAL MEETINGS ARE HELD IN MS 140

Fall 2023

  • Academic Senate General Meetings from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room MS-140: 9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/23, 11/6, 11/27, 12/11
  • Academic Senate Executive Committee Meetings from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room A-305a. Days and times may vary: 8/28, 9/18, 10/2, 10/16 (3:15pm-5:15pm), 10/30, 11/13, 12/4

Spring 2024

  • Academic Senate General Meetings from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room MS-140: 2/12, 3/4, 3/18, 4/8, 4/22, 5/6, 5/20
  • Academic Senate Executive Committee Meetings in Room A-305a. Days and times will vary: 2/5, 2/26, 3/11 (3:15pm-5:15pm), 4/1, 4/15, 4/29, 5/13

Department Senators

At-Large

Elizabeth Norvell

enorvell@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Behavioral Sciences

Marie St. George

mstgeorg@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Black Studies

Alazar Tesfamariam

atesfama@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Business Studies

Tania Serhan

tmustafa@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Chicana/Chicano Studies

Octavio Garcia

ogarcia@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Communication Studies-- COMM, DJRN, DMPR, RTVF

Erin Engstrom

eengstro@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Consumer and Family Studies

Denise Blaha

dblaha@sdccd.edu

 

Counseling

Crystal Rodriguez

crodriguez@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Disability Support Programs and Services -- DSPS

Darren Walters

dwalters@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Engineering and Technologies

Alexandra Perry

aperry@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

English and Humanities-- ESOL, ENGL, PHIL, LABR, HUMA

Paul Lopez

mplopez@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

EOPS/CARE/Next Up

Isabel Gutierrez

igutierrez001@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Health and Exercise Sciences

Paul Greer

pgreer@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

History and Political Science

Pete Haro

pharo@sdccd.edu

 

Information Technology

Tania Serhan (Proxy)

tmustafa@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Languages

Jaime Estrada-Olalde

jestrada@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Learning Resource Center

Carol Withers

cwithers@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Life Sciences

Gabi Mansfield

gmansfie@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Mathematics

Brenda Long

blong@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Student Health Center

Diana Hernandez

dhernandez001@sdccd.edu

Fall 2022 - Spring 2024

Nursing Education

Vasugi White

vwhite001@sdccd.edu

Spring 2022 - Fall 2023

Physical Sciences

Gerardo Scappaticci

gscappat@sdccd.edu

 

Visual and Performing Arts

Katie Stone

kstone@sdccd.edu

 

School Part-time Faculty Senators

Arts, Humanities, and Communications

Behavioral & Social Sciences, and Consumer & Family Studies

Business, Information Technology, and Cosmetology

Engineering & Technologies, Mathematics, Sciences, and Nursing

Health, Exercise Sciences, and Athletics

Student Development/Matriculation

Jodi Cilley

Jennifer Cosio

Charlotte Rankin

Becky Wheelock

Nick Skvarna

Jose Enriquez

jcilley@sdccd.edu

jcosio@sdccd.edu

crankin@sdccd.edu

rwheelock@sdccd.edu

nskvarna@sdccd.edu

jenriquez@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Spring 2023 - Fall 2024

Spring 2022 - Fall 2023

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025


Academic Senate Office Administrative Assistant

Ellyzah Lemus elemus@sdccd.edu

(619) 388-3578
Room A-305A


 

Shared governance, sometimes referred to as participatory governance, is the method in which campus constituent groups makes recommendations and participate in campus decision-making processes. As outlined in the statutory framework below, faculty have a specific role to play within the decision-making process as it pertains to academic and professional matters.

 

THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS

Faculty representation on committees is a vital part of shared governance. The SDCC Academic Senate has a Committee on Committees that appoints faculty to committees at the campus, district, or other affiliate level, which includes appointments to ad-hoc committees and to hiring committees for positions other than faculty. Per the Senate Bylaws, membership in newly-established committees as well as vacancies on existing committees are to be filled in this manner. A log of committee appointments is kept by the Academic Senate Committee on Committees. All faculty members on any committee are appointed by the Academic Senate (Part-time and Full-time). 

Please review the different types of requests before submitting your forms: 

Please have faculty interested in being on a hiring committee contact whomever is recruiting for that hiring committee (dean, chair of hiring committee, department chair, other designee) in order to be considered for the committee. All faculty need to have their EEO training completed before submitting their name to be in the hiring committee. 

The Academic Senate Committee on Committees will review the final list as submitted by the department chair of the faculty position in question. 

    • EEO REPRESENTATIVE

      Any Contract employee who has completed the EEO & Diversity Training for Screening Committee Membership within the past three years may volunteer to serve in the specific role as EEO Representative for any committee regardless of recruitment classification or campus location. We strongly encourage you to consider volunteering at least once per year for this important role on a screening committee.

      As you consider volunteering specifically in the EEO Representative role, please remember the following:

      1.     You may not serve as an EEO Representative on any screening committee for which your immediate supervisor, or their supervisor is the Chair of the Screening Committee.

      2.     You may volunteer with HR to serve as the EEO Representative only after you have obtained your immediate supervisor’s approval to serve on the committee.

      3.     EEO reps must be contract employees. Adjuncts are, however, welcome and encouraged to serve as screening committee members.

  • For those chairs of committees (including search committees for positions other than faculty hires) seeking faculty appointees: go to our Committee Request Form to initiate the recruitment process.

Timeline: The Committee on Committees intends to fill your request within two weeks of your initial request date. A solicitation notice with the information you've included on the form will be sent to all City College faculty via email, usually on Mondays (holidays excepted).

  • For faculty (full-time and part-time) wishing to be appointed to a committee (other than to a faculty hiring committee-- see above): watch for emails announcing the request for faculty to fill committee appointments. Usually these will go out on Mondays, except holidays. A link to a Google form application will be included in the email for you to complete and submit electronically, usually due by the end of the same week on Friday at 5:00 p.m.

Timeline: A decision should be made by the Committee on Committees within a week of the Google form application's due date.

Curriculum Review Committee:
Chair: Jennifer Boots

Distance Learning Committee:
Chair: Aileen Gum

Elections Committee:
Chair: Erin Engstrom

Professional Advancement Committee:
Chair: Lisa Will

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
 At-Large - Selam Gebrekristos
 Apprenticeship - (Representation is vacant)
 Behavioral Sciences - Marie St. George
 Black Studies - Alazar Tesfamariam
 Business Studies- Tania Mustafa
 Chicana/Chicano Studies - Octavio Garcia
 Communications - Erin Engstrom
 Consumer and Family Studies
 (Child Development/Education) - Denise Blaha
 Cosmetology - Gary Waddy
 Counseling - Andre Sanz
 DSPS - Kari Crawford
 Educational Cultural Complex #1 (Representation is Vacant)
 Educational Cultural Complex #2 (Representation is Vacant)
 Engineering and Technologies - Vacant
 English and Humanities - Paul Lopez
 Health Exercise Sciences - Paul Greer
 History/Political Science - Pete Haro
 Information Technology - Richard Pelletier
 Languages - Jaime Estrada-Olalde
 Learning Resource Center - Carol Withers
 Life Sciences - Sarah Hawkins
 Mathematics - Brenda Long
 Nursing Education - Vasugi White
 Physical Sciences - Gerardo Scappaticci
 Student Health - Diana Hernandez
 Visual/Performing Arts - Katie Stone

Arts, Humanities, and Communications

Jodi Cilley

jcilley@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Behavioral & Social Sciences, and Consumer & Family Studies

Jennifer Cosio

jcosio@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Business, Information Technology, and Cosmetology

Charlotte Rankin

crankin@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Engineering & Technologies, Mathematics, Sciences, and Nursing

Becky Wheelock

rwheelock@sdccd.edu

Spring 2023 - Fall 2024

Health, Exercise Sciences, and Athletics

Nick Skvarna

nskvarna@sdccd.edu

Spring 2022 - Fall 2023

Student Development/Matriculation

Jose Enriquez

jenriquez@sdccd.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

OTHER REQUESTS

  • Questions or Concerns Associated with 10+1 for the Senate Exec Committee - Inquiry/Concern 
  • Considering Agenda Items for Senate Executive and/or General AS Meeting - Agenda Request