The Academic Senate met on Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Student Center Conference
\nroom to choose new committee members, create a Faculty Hiring Priority List to be
\nsubmitted to the college president, enact policies and receive status update reports.
\nOf these agenda items the most dynamic involvement from the audience was
\nthe Faculty Hiring Priority List. With only 3-minute presentations, department
\nrepresentatives provided 13 presentations of what full-time positions needed to be filled
\nand why.
\nOne presentation was for the creation of a new job-creating program rather than a job
\nposition. This program proposed to create a Musical Instrument Repair program.
\nAn instrument repair program would create jobs not only across the entire west
\ncoast region, but also for the Bay Area. Presently only two businesses try to meet
\nthe overwhelming needs of high school music departments, marching bands, private
\nmusicians, orchestras and professional organizations.
\nThe second most original presentation was for a new Theatre Technical faculty
\nmember. This position and subsequent classes would create marketable job skills
\ncrucial to running conferences, conventions and theme parks in the Silicon Valley.
\nSkills absolutely necessary and used by hundreds of local corporations such as: Apple,
\nGoogle, Facebook and Steve Wozniak\u2019s annual Comicons.
\nThe most impassioned speech came in the form of a filibuster by the ESL program.
\nThe most disquieting presentations were made for counselors across three programs:
\nCrisis Mental Health, mainly for suicide prevention; DSPS, right now the ratio is one
\ncounselor per 800+ students and Veteran Affairs, a program that has jumped from 30 to
\n300 served per year.
\nThe one that left everyone scratching their head was the Real Estate program existing
\nwithout a Full-time faculty. Everyone knows that Real Estate is a high commodity in
\nthe valley.
\nStudents must achieve broker and\/or state occupational license within a two-year
\nperiod. Presently, SJCC has to send students to other colleges to finish their education.
\nSJCC\u2019s participation in the Career Technical Education (CTE) program should be
\nparamount. The program has a 45 percent increase in student enrollment.
\nProbably the most concerning reality of the entire list is simply that more than half of
\nthe 13 positions were not properly prepared for by HR and Administrators because they
\nare retirement vacancies not being refilled.
\nThe next meeting is Nov. 1 in the Student Center room 204 at 2:10PM. Check the
\nSJCC website for more information.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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