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Disagreement Over Term White Supremacy At Academic Senate Meeting

Disagreement Over Term “White Supremacy” At Academic Senate Meeting

Fares Abdullah, Staff Reporter June 4, 2021

The Mt. SAC Academic Senate met for their regularly scheduled meeting on June 3 via Zoom to debate on the term “white supremacy” that prompted backlash among faculty offended by the phrase. The Senate...

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Academic Senate Debates Test-Proctoring Software

Fares Abdullah, Staff Reporter May 21, 2021

The Mt. SAC Academic Senate met for their regularly scheduled meeting on May 20, via Zoom, to discuss the potential hiring of a controversial test proctoring company, pass a new Fossil Fuel Divestment...

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COVID-19 Town Hall Assures the Safest Return to Campus

Theodora Green, Staff Reporter May 10, 2021

Mt. SAC leadership hosted a virtual COVID-19 Town Hall Thursday afternoon and addressed concerns from community members regarding vaccinations, precautionary measures, classroom instructional planning...

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Academic Senate Champions Project to Uplift Latinx Students

Jianping Cao and Jaylen Minnich Hall May 10, 2021

On Thursday, May 6, 2021, the Mt. SAC Academic Senate held their regularly scheduled meeting via Zoom where they were presented with the progression of the newly achieved Title V grant. This title awards...

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Academic Senate Emphasizes Air Filtration

Fares Abdullah, Staff Writer April 26, 2021

The Mt. SAC Academic Senate met for their regularly scheduled meeting on April 22 via Zoom to discuss the efforts by the leadership and the school at large with regards to climate policies, changes to...

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Pandemic Grading Options Extended Through Fall

Jaylen Minnich Hall, News Editor April 2, 2021

On Thursday, the Academic Senate held their regularly scheduled meeting via Zoom. Besides one item that was postponed to the next meeting, all action items were passed. The extension of the excused...

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Academic Senate Planning for Fall 2021 On Campus

Jaylen Minnich-Hall, News Editor March 5, 2021

Yesterday the Academic Senate held their regularly scheduled meeting via zoom, where they discussed the fall semester schedule and a new ethnic studies requirement. The Student Preparation Equity and Achievement...

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Senate passes Pass/No Pass Grading Option

Monica Inouye, Politics Editor December 4, 2020

The Mt. SAC Academic Senate met Thursday for their bimonthly meeting via Zoom to pass an item that would extend the Pass/No Pass grading system to the spring 2021 semester to accommodate students throughout...

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Anti-Racist Campus Discussed at Academic Senate

Govan Wike, Student Writer November 16, 2020

During their regularly scheduled meeting held on Nov. 12, the Mt. SAC Academic Senate debated the class size guideline proposals, discussed the Student Equity Committee goals and function statement and...

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Faculty Speak Out Against Class Size Increase

The Mt. SAC Academic Senate met on ZOOM on Thursday, Oct. 15 for their regularly scheduled meeting and voted on the future of increasing class sizes. During the senate’s meeting on June 4, the senate...

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Faculty Show Up with Concerns

Abraham Navarro, Editor in Chief October 2, 2020

Mt. SAC Academic Senate met during their regularly scheduled meeting via ZOOM on Oct. 1. During the meeting, Faculty raised concerns regarding issues such as class sizes, meeting times and the addition...

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