The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) The Master Plan for Higher Education and the Missions of the California Community Colleges (Jane Patton); (2) Academic Dishonesty and the Faculty's Right to Assign a Grade: A Test of the Academic Senate's Authority (Mark Wade Lieu); (3) Basic Skills Initiative Work--We Have Gone Far and Deep! (Janet Fulks); (4) Basic Skills--The Front Line Faculty Are Often Adjuncts; How Do We Support and Involve Them? (Kathy Molloy); (5) Putting Prerequisites into Context: How We Got to Where We Are (Mark Wade Lieu); (6) Ethnic Studies Requirement: Understanding It and Fulfilling It (David Morse and Pamela Watkins); (7) Local Control--Who Needs It (Dianna Chiabotti); (8) Sharing Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) With Your College Community (Lesley Kawaguchi and Joan Sholars); (9) "All Senates Is Local" (Dan Crump); (10) Transfer Degree Deja Vu (Beth Smith); (11) Fall 2009 Referred Resolutions--Revising the 50% Law and Response to AB 440: "Transfer Degree" (Michelle Pilati); (12) It's Not FSAs (Wheeler North); (13) A Look on the "Bright Side" of Flex Activities (Jon Trianon, Jeff Lamb, and Kathy Sorensen); and (14) Julie's In box. Individual articles contain references and sources.