SHARED GOVERNANCE TASK FORCE
REPORT OF EVALUATION OF SHARED GOVERNANCE PROCESS
FOR 2008-2009
The Shared Governance Task Force believes that the shared governance process at
LAMC has had much growth and success this past year. Based on the hard work and the
many accomplishments of the committees and their self-evaluations, the process appears
to be healthy and functional. Review and evaluations from the first year resulted in
changes in the makeup and structure of the task force, which should facilitate increased
communication, support, and collaboration among the shared governance committees. In
addition, the scope and function has been refined to clarify our role in college
governance.
The Shared Governance process is still evolving, and we should continue to take great
care to ensure that the process takes hold and becomes a vital and established system on
campus.
Below are the recommendations from 2007-8 and our progress towards each:
o Unit assessments be completed for all other units on campus in the next year to
ultimately establish a clear link between budget and planning. This will better
enable the Budget and Planning Committee to fully incorporate budget allocation
processes.
This has been undertaken, and validations are in progress for Administrative
Services and Student Support Services.
o A regular meeting be established of the co-chairs of all the shared governance
committees. This will assist in understanding the relationships between the
committees. Currently the linkages between the shared governance committees
are not clearly delineated and are somewhat uncertain.
There is now a scheduled meeting of co-chairs of the shared governance
committees, and this group is now serving as the Shared Governance Task
Force. The structure and attendance must be formalized and strengthened.
o Each committee should continue to be vigilant in monitoring memberships. The
replacement or reappointments of the one-year terms should be completed by
June 15th.
This system needs to be formalized. At the May meeting of each committee,
membership terms must be reviewed and contacts made with constituency
leadership for appointments/reappointments.
o College Council should be responsible for monthly committee updates to the
campus community indicating any action items that have been adopted by college
council.
This has been done periodically, but must be done consistentl.y
o The Co- Chair of College Council should be in place before the beginning of July.
This has been done.
o College Council should also prepare a self-evaluation of this past year to be
placed in the Task Force files.
This is underway.
Our recommendations for 2009-2010 are:
o Revise the self-evaluation tool to include a report on progress on
recommendations from the SGTF, and a report on membership attendance at
meetings
o Formalize and enhance the structure of the SGTF (former meeting of shared
governance committee co-chairs) to promote consistent attendance and
participation