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Department and Divisional Structure
There are more than 50 academic and vocational departments
at Santa Barbara City College. Each department has a chairperson
who provides leadership for activities such as evaluations, scheduling
and budget. Departments develop their own curriculum according
to the majors, certificates or competencies embodied in the discipline.
Chairs interface with the Deans and other administrators on matters
of departmental management. Each department has a Dean who oversees
administrative matters and represents the department's interests
to the administrative team.
Each department belongs to one of 11 Divisions,
composed of several loosely related departments. For the purposes
of shared governance, each Division has one or two Senators -
depending on the size of the Division - that represent the perspectives
of the Division's faculty on the Academic Senate and who convey
issues before the Senate back to their respective Divisions. Functions
of the Academic Senate are explained in the subsequent section
on Governance.
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