FACCC - Faculty Association of California Community Colleges -

FACCCTS Topics

Immigration and its Effect on California's Community Colleges
Faculty Involvement: It’s More Than Just Waiting Until You Retire
Intellectual Stimulation and Job Satisfaction: Hope for the Walking Wounded
Creating a True Faculty: Some Thoughts on Teamwork, Collegiality, and Good Teaching
Let’s Do Some Research: Not in our Mandate, but Without It We All Become Like Yesterday’s Bread: Stale.
Neural Aerobics: What’s Good for the Mind is also Good for our Students
Staying Alive Through Tenure and Beyond
Faculty collegiality
Dealing with workplace issues: sexual harassment, discrimination, faculty rights in the workplace
Advice to new faculty from an experienced instructor, counselor or librarian
Faculty fashion
Academic freedom
Taking a sabbatical
Mentoring new faculty
Travel experiences
How new faculty juggle teaching and family life

Classroom management techniques
Teaching psychologically disabled students/disabled students/students with learning disabilities
The challenges of teaching vocational education with outdated equipment
Integrity: Keeping personal biases out of the curriculum, particularly political leanings
Student evaluations of faculty
Teaching today’s students
Faculty study groups, book clubs
Collaborative learning/Team Teaching
Being sensitive to diversity and race in the classroom
Legal limitations in the classroom
Writing capabilities of college students
Students’ excuses (humor)
Assessment of programs at different community colleges
How is your college or district (or you) improving students' success?
Teaching tips
Information competency

Tell us your story! Now collecting first-hand accounts of "a day in the life" to feature insight into the lives of FACCC full- and part-time faculty.
Part-time by choice/Part-time not by choice
Why full-timers should stand up for part-timers
Pro-rata pay

Online resources for teachers
Preventing Internet plagiarism/maintaining integrity
Creating online courses and addressing access challenges for students with disabilities.
How technology funding has affected particular colleges
The philosophical questions of distance education
Teaching in computer labs
Is educational technology working?
Damages credibility of instruction?
Where do the community colleges fit in? How can we compete with UCLA?
Intellectual property rights
Perspective of a faculty member who supports technology in the classroom
Perspective of a faculty member who opposes technology in the classroom
Personal experiences teaching different types of distance ed courses
Is technology in general working in the California Community Colleges?
Making courses available to fit students’ lives
Does distance education work only for certain subjects?
Perspective of instructors who use software that allows students to chat, e-mail, and foster community
in online classes

Does everyone need a bachelor’s degree? (Societal dilemma: What is it to be an educated person?)
How are the colleges doing in trying to be all things to all people?
Savvy about industry, marketing
Clientele, distance education
How we serve a wide range of ages, backgrounds, diverse interests
Workforce development
CalWorks
Lifelong learning
Economic development
What skills does the workforce of the future need?

The proliferation of proprietary schools such as MTI and University of Phoenix and their impact on
community colleges

FACCCTS Topics