A Crucial Task

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A Crucial Task

• Collegiality and Shared Governance
• Jackie Kegley, Chair
• CSU Academic Senate

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The Reality

• He regularly raised petty dislikes more than
  important issues proved overbearing, rude,
  intimidating, and threatening.

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The Reality

• Things are small, mean-spirited, lame

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Shared Values

• Free, unfettered inquiry
• Research and data
• Evidence and argument
• Variety of ideas
• Standards of judgment

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Modeling Values

• Actions speak louder than words
• Shared governance best exemplar of these values
• Why dont we do it?

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Why Important

• Tradition in CSU
• Trustee Statement- Collegiality
• Legislative-Higher Education Employer Employee
  Act (HEERA)

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Central- Academy

• Linked to Academic Freedom-reinforce each other
• Essence of quality education

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Academic Freedom

• Affirmative authority to shape environment
• Academic criteria primary
• Faculty expertise-decisive

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Quality Education

• The values and skills of shared governance are
  the values and skills essential to a quality
  education-the model

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Best Process

• Command leadership obsolete and silly
• Good for flexibility and response.
• Need know-how, ideas,creativity of workforce.

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Making it Work

• Relational conditions of shared governance
  concern attitudes, behavior and the power to
  persuade

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Trust Respect

• Good faith actions are a shared responsibility.
• Key commandment- Do not bash.

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Expectations

• Set high expectations and expect everyone to live
  up to them.
• Trust but verify.
• Expect the best of each other.

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A Socratic Spirit

• Let ideas be tested
• Disagree with open mind
• Distinguish disagreement and misunderstanding.
• Cannot know motives- do not attribute motives.

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The Key Power

• In a community of discourse, important power is
  power to persuade.
• Establish culture of evidence and argument

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Need Structures

• Must facilitate shared governance with consensus
  on good structures and processes.

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Expectations

• Participation in shared governance a shared
  professional (faculty administrative)
• expectation.
• Opportunities for all short and long term

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Accountability

• Ability to foster shared governance should be
  criteria of hire and of evaluation for deans and
  provosts and other academic administrators.

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Expectation- All

• Faculty in governance should give best to tasks.
• Accountability-normal expectation for everyone in
  shared work of the institution.

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Clarity a Key Also

• Clarify common goals and values
• Clarify roles and authority of each role.
• Tasks and problems should be clear- no hidden
  agendas.

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Communication

• Open communication at all levels is critical.
• Communication is responsibility of all.
• Communication after fact not shared governance.

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Each Must Do It

• Numerous voices and persons are needed to
  facilitate and take part in order that shared
  governance succeeds.

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Build a Community

• Good Luck.
• It is worth it.