General Meeting Information

Date: March 9, 2026
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: MLC 255

Joint Academic Senate Meeting Agenda

2:30-4:00 PM

Toyon Room, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

This week’s meeting was a joint senate meeting with Foothill

Dolores Davison, District Academic Senate President, chaired the joint meeting

Call to Order

(Didn’t apply to this meeting due to joint session)

Approval of Agenda

(Didn’t apply to this meeting due to joint session)

Public Comment

(Didn’t apply to this meeting due to joint session)

Designing the Future of Learning and Society

Joint Senates discussed proposed updates to the district strategic plan.

SECOND DRAFT - Updated Strategic Plan (March 4, 2026)

Presentation on Updated Strategic Plan (2nd Draft)

Gohar Momjian, Vice Chancellor for Strategy, Institutional Effectiveness, presented the updated Strategic Master Plan.

• Overview of timeline and different stakeholders involved during the process. 
• Refreshing the districtwide strategic plan is the natural next step as they
• collaborate towards accomplishing a collective mission and vision.
• Focus on execution of the plan and a strategy to achieve the stated goals
• The draft document of the Strategic Master Plan is 10 pages and intentionally short to get into the habit of implementation and execution. 

The Plan includes five district wide strategic priority priorities:

• Equity by design
• Learning, innovation and liberal arts education
• Digital transformation and AI readiness
• Career pathways & economic opportunities
• Global citizenship & Civic Innovation

These five priorities translated into “Five Wildly Important Goals.” Both colleges will be working toward the same ultimate goals.

Comments and questions from AS members after presentation:

AS members highlighted that one college with two campuses is not the direction faculty would like to pursue in the future.  

More opportunities for seniors to take classes at both campuses. 

Consultation with Equity Offices at both colleges; how equity is perceived; consideration for population experiencing impact, like veterans, the disabled to inform the current Strategic Plan

Goal 2 Learning: Create 5 academic pathways for dual admissions articulation with UC/CSU transfer institutions 

Goal 4 Ensure all CTE programs are aligned with labor market demand

Goal 5 Every student enrolled in Area 4 (CalGETC) will engage in civic and community engagement 

Focus on an iterative process, measuring goals and progress.

The next AS conversation about the current Strategic Plan draft will be at the 4/6 joint meeting. Vice Chancellor Gohar Momjian will return to get feedback and approval for implementation

Committee members have 4 weeks to read and review the plan for further discussion.

Guidelines around RSI and Accessibility on J1B/J1C

RSI Document

Alison Meezan, Nicole Gray explained the Guidelines around RSI and Accessibility on J1B/J1C 

Joint Senates discussed proposed language for guidelines around RSI and Accessibility on the J1B / J1C. 

Having consistent guidelines will be helpful for people serving on tenure committees and doing evaluations. 

RSI Guidance

• Goal: Create a shared understanding of what meets legal standards
• How are instructors being evaluated?
• Help guide the conversation between evaluator and instructor being evaluated
• Has a rubric with guidance

Accessibility Guidance 

• Goal: Shared responsibility between faculty and college
• Guidelines for seven major categories/areas of accessibility (digital accessibility)
• Support faculty with the training and guidance needed to create accessible materials
• Accessibility benefits all learners. Features like captions and heading structure provide greater clarity in a document
• Has a rubric with guidance for “The Big Seven”

Will come back to the senate for another read on April 6. The guidelines need to go through the senates for feedback, and then through FA for negotiation before final approval.

Good of the Order 

District equivalency

• Discussion of the equivalency process will start this week
• Dolores will be meeting with Chancellor Rose, HR

Conversion from quarters to semesters

• No information available, 
• Being discussed, nothing will happen in the short term
• Who’s pushing for this change? Chancellor’s office, the idea is that semesters would align better at the state level 

Moving to 11-week quarters vs 12 weeks. 

• FA calendar discussion under negotiation
• Explore taking colleges to 11 quarters, 33 weeks for the academic year; more flexibility with breaks, holidays and cultural observance 
• Would be an easier change than a semester conversion
• Will need to add class time during each session to make up for the loss of a week (55 minutes vs 50 minutes)

Statewide academic senate ASCCC spring plenary

• Resolutions will be available soon. To be discussed at the next joint meeting on April 6.

Adjournment

The joint meeting adjourned.