Company Profile
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
Company Overview
Formed in 1970, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is a 501(c)6 nonprofit organization. Created for the promotion and advancement of public community college education in California, its general purposes are:
To strengthen local academic senates and councils of community colleges;
To serve as the voice of the faculty of the community colleges in matters of statewide concern;
To develop policies and promote the implementation of policies on matters of statewide issues;
To make recommendations on statewide matters affecting the community colleges.
Company History
The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has its roots in Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 48 introduced by Assemblyman Charles Garrigus. ACR 48 adopted in 1963 asked that the State Board of Education (which at that time had a junior college bureau) provide for the establishment of academic senates “. . for the purposes of representing [faculty] in the formation of policy on academic and professional matters ...”. At that time there were already local academic senates, but this resolution gave senates legal recognition and a specific jurisdiction: academic and professional matters. In the early 1960’s there were several statewide faculty organizations: the unions, CTA and CFT and what is now FACCC (then called CJCFA- the California Junior College Faculty Association). There was also CJCA, the California Junior College Association, now CCLC, the Community College League of California, which had a faculty component. Many of these organizations supported the formation of local senates, according to Chet Case in a 1971 research paper. In 1967 legislation was enacted to create the Board of Governors and the Chancellor’s Office for the California Community Colleges.