Policy 3.2 Avenues of Communication
Adoption Date: January 27, 2016 - Revised
The college district depends directly upon the effectiveness of employees as it seeks to continually improve its quality of service to its community. The effectiveness of employees is directly related to their attitudes relative to maximized motivational and environmental conditions. In order to maximize effectiveness of college employees, there must be an integration of college and employee goals. In an effort to insure wholesome motivational and environmental conditions and to create an atmosphere for integration of college and employee goals, the college provides certain avenues of communication. An informed and involved employee can be more effective in his/her respective assignment. The following practices as well as others not listed are implemented to fulfill this principle.
INTERNAL
Continuous Quality Improvement
The college provides avenues of input for employees through the Continuous Quality Improvement Process. Employees are encouraged to submit CQI enhancement requests. Request forms are available on the HC intranet under Forms/Documents. The requests are forwarded to the administrative cabinet for review and appropriate action. In some instances, CQI teams will be formed to address certain enhancement requests. Membership on a CQI team is voluntary. Responses to CQI requests are posted on the intranet. CQI enhancement requests relating to a specific employee are shared with the cabinet member for distribution to the employee and supervisor.
Communicaiton Schedule
The college president annually schedules meetings with various employee groups on each site to solicit input, provide information, and answer questions. Responses are provided as appropriate.
Presidential Roundtable
The college president schedules a meeting each semester with students on the various sites to solicit input, provide information, and answer questions. Each meeting begins with a summary of actions relative to issues presented in the previous meeting.
Faculty Senate
In the fall of 1984, a faculty senate for the college district was organized. The senate membership is composed of all full-time faculty members with senators elected to represent division and/or sites as specified in the Faculty Senate Constitution. Meetings are held as needed. The senate makes recommendations to the administration in the areas of curriculum, instruction, evaluation, and other professional faculty matters. The adopted Faculty Senate Constitution is included in the appendix of this handbook.
Student Government Association
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