That fact that administrators were moving so fast, the resolution said, suggested that they are \u201cmore attuned to the pressures of outside forces than to the needs of its students and continuing faculty efforts to meet those needs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s the real issue with all this. Well-meaning state officials pressure the Chancellor’s Office. They could politely respond<\/p>\n
We trust our campus faculty to design curricula which meet the needs of local employers and reflect the campus and community’s values and needs. California is a big state; artificial uniformity is superficially attractive but risks lasting harm to the state and its workforce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But instead they make broad and sweeping changes to the entire system in order to demonstrate good faith progress on these officials’ well-meaning, but naive priorities.<\/p>\n
That’s the calculus we must find a way to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s an article in the LA Times discussing the Statewide Academic Senate resolution (AS-3304) which calls for EO1100 (revised) and EO 1110 to be put in abeyance and the implementation deadline be extended to Fall 2019: http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-cal-state-trustees-meeting-20170919-story.html Here’s another article in EdSource: https:\/\/edsource.org\/2017\/csu-faculty-rebel-against-changes-in-remedial-and-math-education-calls-for-delay\/587650 I’m glad that the LA Times article picked up on this part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,12,6,73,69,63],"tags":[3,71,72,56],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ascsu","category-board-of-trustees","category-csu","category-eo1100","category-executively-ordered","category-gi2025","tag-bot","tag-eo1100","tag-general-education","tag-leaders-behaving-badly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/facultypresident\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}