Standing Committees
Standing Committees
A standing committee is a permanent committee that meets regularly. The standing committees for faculty to join at Red Rocks Community College are listed below.
Academic Standards
The Academic Standards Committee reviews, analyzes and makes recommendations to the Vice President of Academic Affairs on matters pertaining to the following: Academic policies/procedures that affect academic learning environment and contribute to the maintenance of high academic standards AND Procedures for changing, developing, or deleting instructional policies or procedures.
Assessment Council
The Assessment Council is a faculty-led organization, comprised of faculty, administration and staff, who coordinate efforts to improve teaching and facilitate improvement and understanding of student learning at RRCC. The scope of the Assessment Council’s work includes building sustaining a culture of inquiry by supporting faculty through the academic program review process and continuous quality improvement. Through mentoring and coaching, faculty engage in best practices related to assessment of student learning at the course, program, and institutional levels. Meetings are open to all RRCC employees although voting rights are restricted to official members.
Campus Safety Advisory Committee
The RRCC Campus Safety Advisory Committee's mission is to advance social equity and ensure equitable treatment of systemically non-dominant groups by ensuring dialogue and identifying opportunities for collaboration involving public safety.
Collaboration Council
Collaboration Council has the training and delegated authority to set annual priorities and make recommendations for the resources needed to achieve the priorities in alignment with the mission and vision of the college.
Current Chair: Derek Grubb
Curriculum Committee
The Curriculum Committee will review, analyze, and make recommendations to the Vice President of Academic Affairs on matters pertaining to the following: Substantive changes, additions, and deletions in all instructional courses and programs offered, courses and programs to be entered in the course Master File, AND Forms, curriculum, and policies as needed.
Equity and Inclusion Council
The Equity and Inclusion Council’s mission is to create a community that values and respects our similarities and differences. We are a group of staff, faculty, students and community who support and promote issues and concerns regarding diversity on campus and throughout our local communities.
Faculty Senate
Serve as the Faculty group in the Shared Governance structure and a channel of communication between the Faculty and the Administration on matters of interest or concern.
First Year Experience Committee (FYE)
Honor's Committee
The Honors Committee is a standing committee of faculty, staff and administrative members that works with the director and is involved in honors curriculum, governance, policy, development, and evaluation deliberations. The composition of that group represents the colleges and/or departments served by the program and also elicits support for the program from across the campus.
Housing and Food Insecurity Council
The purpose of the Housing and Food Insecurity Council is to identify the housing and food insecurities of RRCC students and work toward alleviating the impact of those barriers on student success by connecting students, faculty, and staff to resources and educational opportunities
Instructional Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC)
It provides direction and sets priorities for the use of instructional technologies that support the learning and teaching environments at Red Rocks Community College. The goal of the committee is to gather and evaluate information about how instructional technology can enhance instruction and make recommendations to Academic Affairs on implementation.
Online Advisory Committee
Open Education Resources Committee
The mission of the OER Advisory Committee is to build the structure, culture, and assessment of Open Educational Resources at RRCC.
Strategic Enrollment Management Council
The focus of the Enrollment Management Team's work is to define and maintain targeted enrollment levels that sustain the College's budget. There are 3 subcommittees within this group focused on recruitment, retention and data and analytics.
Veteran Advisory Council
The Veteran Advisory Council advises the Veteran Services Office, provides input on Veteran-related decision making, and supports Veteran student initiatives.
Web Accessibility Committee
To develop and oversee direction, strategies, resources, and plans for implementing the Presidential Procedure SP3-125g and the Red Rocks Web Accessibility Plan.
Minutes Access: https://www.rrcc.edu/campus-accessibility
Special Committees
A special committee is created for a limited period of time to perform a particular study or investigation. The special committees for faculty to join at Red Rocks Community College are listed below.
Catalog Committee
The Catalog Committee reviews submissions to the catalog and works with the Marketing Director on preparing each year’s catalog.
Endowed Teaching Chair Committee
The Endowed Teaching Chair Committee meets to review applicants and conduct interviews for the Endowed Teaching Chair award offered through the Red Rocks Community College Foundation Office.
To hear an appeal by a faculty member facing suspension or dismissal.
Joint Committees
Joint Committees are committees comprised of multiple organizations. The joint committees for faculty to join at Red Rocks Community College are listed below.
Colorado Faculty Advisory Council (CFAC)
The purpose of the Colorado Faculty Advisory Council is to advise the ColoradoCommission on Higher Education, and other appropriate state agencies, on matters affecting higher education statewide.
State Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC)
The State Faculty Advisory Council shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Board and to the President of the System and shall act in a liaison capacity between the college faculties and the Board. The Faculty Council shall advise and make recommendations to the System President and the Board on polices and other matters of interest and concern to state system community and junior college faculty.
State Faculty Curriculum Committee (SFCC)
Oversee CCCNS and CCCS classes. Review and approve/decline proposed curriculum revisions, deletions and new curriculum submitted by all schools in the community college system. Review GT submissions and make suggestions before sending them on for GT Review. Organize annual 2:2 meetings.
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