Veteran Chair Explains Collegial Governance, Its Role on Campus and Current Challenges
BY VALERIE ORLEANS
From Dateline (November 11, 2004)
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Jack Bedell, professor of sociology and 2004-05
chair of the Academic Senate, presides over a recent meeting
of the faculty advisory body. The veteran faculty member has
served in the leadership position for three previous terms:
in 1976-77, 1988-89 and 1989-90. A member of the campus community
since 1969, Bedell has served in several capacities, including
department chair, head of the statewide Academic Senate, acting
associate vice chancellor for the CSU, acting associate vice
president of academic affairs and acting director of the Faculty
Development Center. Last month, Bedell served as moderator of
the Issues That Divide town hall on “Same-Sex Marriage”.
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Last spring, when Jack Bedell, professor of
sociology, was elected to a fourth term as chair of the Academic
Senate, he became the first faculty member to be elected four times
to the leadership position. Recently, Bedell discussed the role
of the Academic Senate and what he anticipates will be some of the
challenges facing senators this year.
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