THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATIONS

MEETINGS

Next Administrative Association Executive Committee Meeting - Friday, May 23, 2008, Virginia Beach Campus, location to be announced at 9:00 a.m., proposed Agenda.

purpose statement

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."Joel Barker

The administrators of Tidewater Community College establish the Administrative Association as a collective voice for the college's administrators. The Association exists to influence positive change in college affairs and to promote professional opportunities for leadership, training, and mentoring for its members. It emphasizes the responsibility of administrators at all levels to demonstrate ethical leadership in the exercise of their duties and provides recognition of stellar work and dedication to the college community.

The Administrative Association addresses issues affecting administrators, enabling them to play a substantive role in shaping and advancing the mission of Tidewater Community College. The Association fosters clear communication across boundaries of campus and function while nurturing the professional renewal of its constituency.

The Administrative Association is dedicated to promoting a collegial community focused on excellence in teaching and learning.

The Administrative Association, a constituent group of the TCC Governance System, invites you to learn more about collegial governance and the vital role it plays in our future.

From the draft of the collegial governance plan of Tidewater Community College, we learn that

• It is founded on the belief that the internal constituencies of the institution -- administration, faculty, classified, employees, and students -- are to be genuinely represented and have a meaningful voice in the decisions affecting the operation, policy development, and strategic planning of the college. The purpose of the governance structure is to define the roles that trustees, administrators, faculty, classified and students should play in shared responsibility and cooperative action.
  
  
• The design adheres to two basic operating principles -- that people's time is a precious commodity which should not be wasted, and that people do their best work when there is a high expectation that their work will matter. Mutual trust, good faith, support and commitment to the institution and its students are essential to the success of shared governance. Because shared governance is intended to serve the entire college, it is incumbent upon all that representation from all areas of the college be fair, timely and inclusive.

In a fall '99 governance orientation meeting with the President, Dr. DiCroce spoke of

"the need for a strong collegial governance system as part of TCC's vision as the strategic community college of the millennium. It will provide for better, more informed decision making and employees will have ownership of the process."

As a constituent group of the Governance System, from its Constitution, the Administrative Association

• is dedicated to promoting a collegial community focused on teaching and learning.
  
  
• is established by the administrators of TCC to serve as a voice for the members and to exercise the authority of the administrators in college affairs.
  
  
• exists to provide an organization to address issues affecting the college's administrators, enabling them to contribute in a meaningful way to advancing the college's mission and goals.
  
  
• shall operate as a vehicle for regular communication among administrators, the classified staff, and the faculty.
  
  
• shall provide support for those college and campus committees that the college deems necessary for the efficient and effective operation of the college.