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Summer & Fall 2013
WebSMART Registration
By appointment, 5/9 - 6/16
Final Exams
Saturday, 5/18 - Friday, 5/24
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Academic Senate
Goals: 2013-2014
Governing Council has identified the following areas as priorities for faculty in the 2013-2014 academic year: 
  • Professional Development 
  • Professional Engagement
  • Cross-Campus Communication: Breaking down the silos
  • Addressing Student Success Task Force Recommendations

At future Governing Council meetings, we will refine each as we develop specific objectives, action steps, and measurable outcomes to guide and track our progress in support of student learning, the revised college mission and diversity statements, and Institutional Priorities (as well as current college initiatives).

Goals: 2011-2013
Highlights of goals and priorities through Spring 2013:

ASGC leadership and faculty driven initiatives (Mission/Curriculum/Programs/Courses)
Acting in support of student learning and the college mission and diversity statements as well as college initiatives, ASGC has revised program review documents and processes in collaboration with the Institutional Planning Committee and college administration. We created an ad hoc Learning Support Centers Coordination Committee to effectively align student support services, and we are organizing and developing our academic senate Center for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which has included selecting and appointing two co-coordinators. Our BSI Committee collaborated with the Learning Center to fund and institutionalize two programs (summer bridge and peer mentoring) for first-time, underprepared students, and we advocated for a third (peer tutoring). We also actively promoted and advocated for implementing the Puente Project, and we led the creation of a unique, interdisciplinary Honors Project, which incorporates undergraduate research in support of transfer.     

Budget reduction (2011-2012)
ASGC worked effectively with college administration to responsibly address pressing budget reductions and recommendations for program discontinuance.

SB 1440 (AA-T/AS-T, Transfer Model Curriculum—degree alignment with CSU)
College of San Mateo has a 100% compliance rate, keeping on track with AA-T and AS-T degrees as they are approved statewide. Additionally, CSM faculty have been proactively representing their disciplines in statewide discussion and vetting processes to create and approve AA-T and AS-T degrees for the California Community College system.  

Ongoing SLO assessment
As part of our program review revision and thanks to the ongoing work and commitment of our College Assessment Committee, we've created tools to help align course, program, degree, and General Education (GE) SLOs. And we are currently considering the feasibility of implementing ePortfolios as an additional tool to use in assessing student learning. 
 
Measure G funding
We continue to work collaboratively with college administration to allocate funding to programs and services in order to maintain the highest quality service to CSM students.