Principles and Policies. Papers of the Academic Senate, the California State University, Volume I

Table of Contents Foreword January 1999....................................................................................................................................iii Executive Committee.......................................................................................................................................iv Senate Chairs 1963-1998..................................................................................................................................v Foreword [As originally published in Volume I, 1988]...................................................................................vi Section I............................................................................................................................................................1 Section II.........................................................................................................................................................19 Section III........................................................................................................................................................59 Section IV.....................................................................................................................................................187 Section V.......................................................................................................................................................245 i ii Foreword January 1999 Ten years ago the First Edition of Principles and Policies appeared under the able editorship of David C. Cohen of CSU Bakersfield. That volume, familiarly known as the Blue Book, has been a valuable guide to generations of members of the Academic Senate of the California State University (ASCSU) and of campus senates on a variety of issues, including collegiality, the roles and responsibilities of academic senates and on other important positions taken by the ASCSU on academic policy matters. While the original edition of the Blue Book has served its purpose for these ten years, it was always the intent of the Senate to update it; consequently, the present editor undertook the responsibility, in consultation with the members of the Executive Committee of the ASCSU, of making the Blue Book more current. In this volume, all the text from the First Edition has been included and has been augmented with policies judged significant by the editor and the Executive Committee ASCSU (1998-99). These policies were adopted by the Academic Senate CSU through spring 1996. There will also be an even more current version of Principles and Policies available through the Senate’s Web site: http://www.calstate.edu/acsenate, and this version will be updated annually. The preparation of this volume has only been possible through collaboration, over time, of previous Executive Committees ASCSU. Harold Goldwhite Editor iii Executive Committees 1998-1999 Gene Dinielli, Chair Vincent Buck, Vice Chair Hal Charnofsky, Secretary Cristy Jensen, Member-at-Large Dick Williams, Member-at-Large James Highsmith, Immediate Past Chair 1997-98 James Highsmith, Chair Marshelle Thobaben, Vice Chair Walter Oliver, Secretary Gene Dinielli, Member-at-Large Judy Stanley, Member-at-Large Harold Goldwhite, Past Chair 1996-97 James Highsmith, Chair Marshelle Thobaben, Vice Chair Hal Charnofsky, Secretary Gene Dinielli, Member-at-Large Gary Hammerstrom, Member-at-Large Harold Goldwhite, Past Chair 1995-96 James Highsmith, Chair Marshelle Thobaben, Vice Chair Hal Charnofsky, Secretary Allison Heisch, Member-at-Large Rosemarie Marshall, Member-at-Large Harold Goldwhite, Immediate Past Chair iv Senate Chairs 1963-1999 Leonard Mathy CSC Los Angeles 1963-64 Samuel Wiley CSC Long Beach 1964-65 John Livingston Sacramento State 1965-66 Jesse Allen CSC Los Angeles 1966-67 Sol Buchalter San Fernando Valley State 1967-68 John Stafford San Fernando Valley State 1968-69 Jerome Richfield San Fernando Valley State 1969-70 Levern Graves CSC Fullerton 1970-71 David Provost Fresno State 1971-72 Charles Adams CSU Chico 1972-75 Gerald Marley CSU Fullerton 1975-77 David Elliott San Jose State 1977-79 Robert Kully CSU Los Angeles 1979-82 John Bedell CSU Fullerton 1982-84 Bernard Goldstein San Francisco State 1984-87 Ray Geigle CSU Bakersfield 1987-90 Sandra Wilcox CSU Dominguez Hills 1990-93 Harold Goldwhite CSU Los Angeles 1993-95 James Highsmith CSU Fresno 1995-98 Gene Dinielli CSU Long Beach 1998- v Foreword [As originally published in Volume I, 1988] As the Academic Senate of the California State University completes its 25th year of representing the faculty, its Executive Committee believes that important documents reflecting on Senate history and representing recent achievements of the Senate should be provided in a format accessible to those who wish to understand the role of the Senate in CSU academic governance. With minor editing for consistency in style and to reduce redundancy, the papers which follow provide personal perspectives on the Senate’s history and reprint several of its most significant recent actions. The Executive Committee of the statewide Academic Senate, led by the Senate Chair, organizes the activities of the Senate and is principally responsible for representing the Senate in its dealings with many groups, including the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor and her staff, the California State Student Association, the CSU Alumni Council, statewide policymakers, and the public. With offices at the CSU Headquarters in Long Beach, the Senate operates throughout the year as an agency of CSU faculty governance. Information about the documents reprinted here or about any other activities of the Senate may be obtained from that office. The Senate will compile additional volumes in this series from time to time and welcomes a wider audience for its work. Permission to reproduce and quote from these documents is hereby granted. While the thoughtful contributions of many persons are reflected in these documents, editorial responsibility for this publication resides in the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the California State University. Executive Committee, 1987-88 Ray Geigle, Chair Frieda A. Stahl, Vice Chair Peter H. Shattuck, Secretary Paul S. Spear, Member-at-Large Becky W. Loewy, Member-at-Large Bernard Goldstein, Immediate Past Chair vi Section I From the History of the Academic Senate of the California State University........................................3 Remarks to New Senators.........................................................................................................................3 Constitution of the Academic Senate of the California State University................................................11 1 2 Section I From the History of the Academic Senate of the California State University This section of the Papers consists of presentations which selectively provide a perspective on the history of the statewide Academic Senate. The first paper is a brief social history of its early development. An orientation luncheon for new members of the Senate on September 11, 1987, provided Professor Peter H. Shattuck an opportunity to help prepare those Senators for their new roles. Shattuck approached this occasion as an historian (at CSU Sacramento since 1965), as a former Chair of the Faculty Senate at that campus, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate CSU. Following Professor Shattuck’s speech are the remarks of seven former Chairs of the statewide Academic Senate at a January 9, 1986, Senate symposium commemorating the 25th anniversary of the California State University. Their presentations, addressing the challenges they see facing the CSU and the Senate, are based on experiences spanning nearly 20 years. Their remarks demonstrate that many initial concerns of the faculty have persisted virtually unchanged to the current era, while the CSU has grown to be an institution of enormous complexity, with great challenges for those who would participate in its governance. The wisdom and wit of these faculty leaders are evident in their statements. Remarks to New Senators Peter H. Shattuck September 11, 1987 This is not a chronicle of the Senate; I will not go into the begats (Mathy begat Wiley who begat Livingston), nor will I trace the Senate’s wanderings in the desert (from Wilshire Boulevard to the Hollywood Roosevelt to the Pacifica to the Long Beach mud flats, with occasional excursions to Sacramento). Instead, I’ll try to explain a few of the mysteries about the Senate, and give you some sense of where we come from. On May 14, 1988, the Academic Senate of the CSU will celebrate its 25th birthday. Born of the altogether unlikely couple of Glenn Dumke and Al Rodda, the Senate has survived a difficult childhood and a frustrating adolescence to emerge as a mature institution, still not entirely sure of its role in an academic world which refuses to remain static. Historians tend to search for ways to chop the seamless web of time into manageable chunks: the history of the Academic Senate may appropriately be divided into the period of origins, the pre-HEERA years, and the post-HEERA epoch, otherwise known as the present. Prehistory of the Academic Senate The California state colleges can trace their origins to 1857, the year of the establishment of Minns’ Evening Normal School in San Francisco. After a century, the normal schools had become 3 teachers colleges, which in turn had metamorphosed into state colleges. Administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction,

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