SENATE COMMITTEES & COUNCILS B EING AT THE TABLE = LIBRARY VALUE.

SENATE COMMITTEES & COUNCILS

BEING AT THE TABLE = LIBRARY VALUE

WITHOUT FACULTY STATUS

… the integration of LAUCI Representatives into the Faculty Senate mix arguably becomes even more critical

… we are at the table with an opportunity to listen, learn, and contribute to essential campus dialogues

… over time we establish relationships with campus community members that would otherwise not exist

… campus governance viewed through this prism is clearly a path to a holistic library inclusion

HARDLY NEW

“Campus governance is another very important place for librarian involvement, if at all possible. Active participation on the campus Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Committees, and campus advisory groups brings a greater understanding by faculty of librarians and what they have to offer.

Librarians have a much greater say in the direction of the campus and can inform others, in particular, about issues where we have deep knowledge and expertise including intellectual and academic freedom, copyright, and scholarly communications, to name a few...”

Dewey, Barbara I. "The Embedded Librarian: Strategic Campus Collaborations." Resource Sharing & Information Networks 17.1/2 (2004): 5-17, 10.

FACULTY SENATE

CAMPUS GOVERNANCE

THEMES LARGE & SMALL

The Council on Education Policy (CEP) may focus on the exceptionally narrow -- critiquing draft changes to course descriptions by departmental administrators, as example.

At other times, the issues are broad and impactful – What is the UC System wide strategy toward online education? How are we as a campus responding to the growth in enrollment of foreign/international students?

INFORMATION LITERACY

Council on Educational Policy (CEP) CEP considers all matters related to undergraduate education including academic policy. During the 2006-2007 year, the Council revised UC Irvine’s Plan for General Education. As a direct result of a LAUC-I member on the Council, the General Education Plan for UC Irvine undergraduates specifically articulates "gathering, "gathering, interpreting and evaluating information from a interpreting and evaluating information from a variety of sources" variety of sources" (a basic component of information literacy) as a goal of the general education requirements.

CEP AND INFORMATION LITERACY CONTINUED The section entitled "Practical Abilities" states "The CEP General Education Plan proposes that all students who graduate from UCI should have a basic set of abilities in writing, information information literacyliteracy, quantitative or computational reasoning, and language other than English."

CEP AND INFORMATION LITERACY CONTINUED In addition, the description of the General Education learning outcomes for writing includes this statement: "After completing this GE requirement, successful students should be able to do the following: Lower-division writing: demonstrate rhetorically effective, accurate academic writing and communication across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media using appropriate stance, genre, style, and organization; develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading texts; develop abilities in critical reading across a variety of genres and media; and and demonstrate information literacy skills by locating, demonstrate information literacy skills by locating, evaluating, and integrating information gathered from evaluating, and integrating information gathered from multiple sources into a research project.multiple sources into a research project.

CEP AND INFORMATION LITERACY CONTINUED Upper-division writing: demonstrate rhetorically effective, discipline-specific writing for appropriate academic, professional, and public audiences; demonstrate, at an advanced level of competence, use of discipline-specific research methods, genres, modes of development, and formal conventions; and demonstrate and demonstrate advanced information literacy skills by locating, advanced information literacy skills by locating, evaluating, and integrating information gathered evaluating, and integrating information gathered from multiple sources into discipline-specific writing."from multiple sources into discipline-specific writing." (http://www.editor.uci.edu/12-13/intro/intro.13.htm#GE) The General Education plan was overwhelming approved by UC Irvine's Divisional Assembly on June 8, 2007 and went into effect for students entering UCI beginning Fall, 2008.

NEW ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Council on Educational Policy (CEP)

Council on Planning and Budget (CPB)

Graduate Council (Grad Council) The result of our long-term involvement with these three councils was a statement from the Library that became pro forma for all proposals for new academic majors, programs, and units.

UC OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Council on Educational Policy (CEP)

Council on Planning and Budget (CPB)

Council on Research and Computers and Libraries (CORCL)

Graduate Council (Grad Council) LAUC-I members actively participated in discussions about the Open Access policy and provided definitions and insight into the changes in publishing.

INTEGRATION

Council on Undergraduate Admissions & Relations with Schools (CUARS)

The LAUC-I representative learned that the 1st annual Graduate Student Symposium was looking for faculty judges. LAUC-I took the opportunity to offer our services as judges. The result: LAUC-I members will serve as judges alongside the faculty.

PRESENTED BY

Brian Williams Education & Outreach

Research Librarian for Criminology, Law & Society

U.S. & California Government InformationActing Interim Research Librarian for Psychology & Social Behavior and

Cognitive Psychology

[email protected]

Cynthia Johnson

Head, Reference and the Grunigen Medical Library

[email protected]