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​Spring 2020 Updates
Academic Senate has had a busy Spring. Throughout this semester the Academic Senate has been hard at work representing the faculty body in all aspects of the participatory governance process. Senators and Senate Leadership have offered input and support for addressing Remote Instruction Certification, grading policies in the time of a crisis, district planning for reinstatement of face-to-face courses, support for faculty professional development planning, and streamlining campus access for faculty & staff. With all this work behind us, we wanted to make sure our faculty had quick access to the following forms and policies.

Spring 2020 - Covid-19 Crisis Documents

Student Forms / Policies​​​​​​​​​​​

• Excused Withdrawal Guidelines & Policies
• Pass / No-pass Policies (Covid-19 updates)

Faculty Forms / Policies

• ​Campus Access SoP
• (Redlined) RSCCD Reinstate Instruction Plan (Approved with Friendly Amendment - 052620).docx
• Distance Education Remote Certification Information​​​​

• Seek formal and informal feedback from faculty as decisions affecting them are being made

• Communicate clearly about changes in procedures and include rationale for those changes.  Continue this clear and reasoned communication to students, staff and faculty for each significant change
  

• Develop in consultation with faculty a process for how decisions about the format of Fall classes will be made (how will decisions be made about which courses meet on campus and the measures to be used (social distancing, size limitations, cleaning, PPE, split-classes etc)
  

• Develop plans in consultation with faculty for a transition back to campus aligned to the Governor's four stage plan (or subsequent plan) that addresses which classes would end remote instruction at each stage and what format would be used at that time
  

• Communicate the above plan to students before each semester starts, so they aren't surprised by an unexpected class format.  (They've dealt with their share of surprises already.)​