ASCCC Spring Plenary Session, April 19-20, 2024

By Dan Crump, Liaison, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) held its Spring Plenary Session in April at the Marriott Hotel in San Jose. The theme of Session was “Radicalizing Spaces of Possibility: Faculty Leadership in Vision 2030.” As ASCCC President Cheryl Aschenbach noted in her February President’s Update, “The future of teaching, learning, and leading must be focused in practices that challenge Eurocentric structures and elevate liberation. In her work Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, feminist teacher, scholar, and activist bell hooks urges teachers to see the classroom as “radical space of possibility” where student and faculty partnerships can disrupt systemic barriers through collaboration, disruption of power structures, and the centering of compassion and social justice. Sessions will highlight opportunities to create radical change through efforts included in Vision 2030.”

Session information, including the program, resources, and presentation materials, are available on the ASCCC website.

In addition, the Session delegates adopt resolutions that guide the work of the ASCCC. The resolutions cover a wide range of topics relating to “academic and professional matters” (the ASCCC 10+1).  You can view all the approved resolutions on the ASCCC website under "Adopted Resolutions."

Elections for 2024-25 ASCCC Executive Committee were held on the Saturday of Session. I am sorry that I was not there as I would have been able to give a big hug of congratulations to “one of our own!” Stephanie Curry (Librarian, Reedley College) was elected to the officer position of Secretary. Stephanie has served for six years as both a North and Area A representative on the Executive Committee and chaired a variety of committees---Accreditation, Curriculum, Relations with Local Senates, Resolutions, Transfer, Articulation and Student Success (TASSC), CTE Leadership, and Part-Time Faculty Committees and is currently chairing the Educational Policies Committee and the new Awards and Recognition Committee. Congratulations to Stephanie on this new step in her ASCCC leadership walk!