Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

 

 April 17, 2008

 

 

Present
Business..............................................	Marcus Wilson, Nancy Woolridge
Counseling...........................................	Flor Huerta, Heather Halvorson
Fine Arts..............................................	Chuck Ketter, Steve Pliska
Humanities...........................................
Library.................................................	Mike Fitzsimmons
Math/Computer Science........................	Scott Malloy
Natural Sciences..................................	Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Rick Lozinsky
Part-Time Faculty.................................
Physical Education...............................	Scott Giles, Pamela Lewin
Social Sciences...................................	Chris Lamm, Ricardo Salas
Student Services..................................	Sylvia Pimentel
Technology/Engineering.......................	Rosa Molina, Doris Wright
At-large................................................	Paul McKinley
Associated Students............................	Ethan Morse
President.............................................	Ken Collins
Interim Vice President...........................	Miguel Powers
Secretary.............................................	Jane Troop
Treasurer..............................................	Karen Markley
At-large, Curriculum Chair......................
Guests:   Larry Buckley, Lily Espinosa, Peter Fong, Chris Kiger, Ken Meehan
Absent
At-large................................................	Peg Berger, Deborah McQueen
Humanities...........................................	Rosa Arceo, Ruth Egigian, Robert Lundergan, Jeff Rodine
Math/Computer Science........................	Robert Diaz, Greg Nguyen
Part-Time.............................................	Jim Book
Senate Exec........................................	Jennifer Combs

 

 

I.          CALL TO ORDER

         The meeting was called to order at 3:05 p.m. by Dr. Collins.

II.         APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

                 M/S/U (Wilson/Markley) to approve the Minutes of the April 3, 2008 meeting.

 

III.        APPROVAL OF AGENDA

 

         M/S/U (Wilson/Markley) to approve the agenda for this meeting.

 

 

 

IV.       PUBLIC COMMENTS

 

iTunes University —Bob Jensen  announced iTunes University, set for 5 p.m. today.  Geared for student engagement, this would be a pilot project which features student content.  Those interested should e-mail Bob Jensen.

 

District Softball Challenge —The District has issued a softball challenge for a game to be played Friday, May 9. 

 

Earth Day —Associated Students will be celebrating Earth Day on the Quad.  Ethan Morse , the current A.S. President, will be serving as the Student Trustee next year. 

 

Student Success Summit II —Peter Fong  announced the Student Success Summit II.  More students and fewer faculty members have signed up to attend the second summit compared to the first.  The event will be held tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon with a continental breakfast at 8:30. 

 

Tartuffe —The play opens next Thursday.

 

Faces of Fullerton —Chris Lamm announced that the upcoming Faces of Fullerton event will be held in the park and museum area.  It will feature a pancake breakfast as well as Korean barbeque. 

 

Lily Espinosa —The new director of the Cadena Transfer Center , Lily Espinosa, introduced herself and requested input from faculty.

 

V.      EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

        

         Chancellor Candidates —The three candidates for the Chancellor’s position will be on campus Monday and taking questions from faculty.  President Collins gave a brief background of each of the candidates and facilitated the formulation of questions to pose of those candidates. 

 

         DPC, District Allocation Model —A grid has been developed for a model for budget allocations and costs for the campuses. Fred Williams  put forth a budget proposal for next year that would cut FTES one percent below the current targets. This cut will affect the two colleges but not SCE and is based on assumed budget shortfalls. The colleges grew and used their resources to do this.

A committee is still working on the allocation. A complaint was voiced that Cypress College  is unfairly given less money than Fullerton in spite of the fact that it has very expensive programs such as nursing.  Senators were urged to e-mail their input to the Board of Trustees concerning the priorities for budget.

 

         Dynamic Fund —Proposals for this fund will be discussed at PAC at its next meeting.

 

         Treasurer’s Report

 

         Treasurer Markley reported that the Senate has $339 for travel and $320 for supplies.  She thanked those responsible for refreshments.

 

 

VI.     CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

 

         Proposals for 2009 should be launched in CurriCUNET  by May 7.  Approvals will be done by August 18.

 

VII.    NEW BUSINESS

 

         Campus Climate Survey Preliminary Results —Ninety individuals participated in the survey and about twenty-five percent of the faculty has responded.  Responses are not very favorable for the most part. This raises the question of what the Senate would like to do about the survey. 

Several options were presented about what action to take relative to the data. One possibility is to take the results to the PAC and then to the Board of Trustees. Some of the questions reflect on the Senate itself. Another option is to have the Senate Exec. discuss this information with the college president.

This will be put on the next Senate agenda and discussed. 

 

 VIII.  ELECTIONS

 

A second call has gone out for at-large positions.  Three two-year terms are available with no nominees.  One one-year term is available with two nominees.  Miguel Powers will ask if one of the nominees for the one-year term would serve a two-year term instead.  These are due on April 24. 

 

Following is the result of the election held in the Senate today.

 

Student Learning Outcomes Equity Committee ...................................................... Jan Chadwick  

Student Learning Outcomes Equity Committee........................................................ Doug Eisner  

Student Learning Outcomes Equity Committee..................................................... Karen Markley  

Student Learning Outcomes Equity Committee..................................................... Miguel Powers

Student Learning Outcomes Equity Committee....................................................... Cindy Zarske  

 

One of the Dynamic Fund proposals is to fund an SLO coordinator  with 100 percent reassigned time.  This would be for a faculty member.

 

IX.    OLD BUSINESS

 

Basic Skills Initiative Action Plan Follow-Up —When the Faculty representative on the BSI committee was at the last Senate meeting, Dr. Collins asked her about the self-assessment study. She answered that the plan was optional and that the college decided not to do it because of time constraints. Juan Cruz , of the State Chancellor’s Office , advised Dr. Collins not to sign the ESL/Basic Skills Proposal (which the Senate President must do). This is because the action plan is based, in part, on the self-assessment. The BSI Committee had done a mini version of the self-assessment study before completing the action plan, so the State Chancellor’s Office advised that it will be acceptable if we complete the self assessment before submitting our plans to the state.

 

Two administrative policies were then discussed.

 

AP 4020 —This policy has to do with program and curriculum development. A copy of this has already been given out at the last Senate meeting.  It was decided that we should demand the changes we already discussed.

 

 

 

 

AP 3720 —This has to do with computer and electronic communication and has already been distributed.  There was some concern about how the word obscene would be defined and how discussion of politics would be handled. 

 

Guidelines for Disruptive Behavior and Assisting Students in Crisis/Distress —This is a draft on which faculty can provide input.  Senators were asked to share this with faculty members in their divisions. A Senator urged that phones be installed in the classrooms in order to save lives in case of emergency.

 

Clickers —The matter of clickers (personal response systems) in classrooms was discussed.

 

M/S/U (Chadwick/Wilson) that the Senate recommends adopting a campus-wide standard for personal response systems and that the college enter into an agreement with e-instruction,  but not requiring faculty to use this particular device nor to preclude the use of other devices.

Basic Skills Initiative Expenditure Plan —The allocation numbers came from the makers of the proposals that were submitted to the Basic Skills Student Success Committee. Thirty-eight proposals were submitted. Each proposal was categorized and the percent of the entire amount will be allocated based on the category percentages from the proposals. About 18 percent of the proposals for funding were for program and curriculum planning and development. It was determined by the committee that they would allocate about 18 percent of the money in that category. About three percent would be spent on student assessment. 

 

These proposals are merely on the table now, and they will be discussed further and prioritized on April 25.  It is possible that there will be sufficient money to accommodate every one of the 38 proposals. This is because money is also available from other years.  The committee has not made the spending decision yet.  The state merely has to be told the areas where we wish to spend it.  None of the proposals address articulation, but some money was set aside for this. 

 

Block Scheduling in the Natural Sciences —A question was raised from Natural Science concerning the block scheduling model previously presented to the Senate. Dr. Buckley  mentioned that the block scheduling plan for the Natural Sciences has too many problems in it and is now dead. It could have possibly cost us FTES.

 

Continued Discussion of Senate Priorities —Program review is considered a priority of the Senate.

 

         Program Review —Dr. Meehan  addressed the Senate and gave an overview of Program Review. Several years ago the six-year cycle of program review was changed to one year and included student services. A set of indicators was developed by PCC that are used to review each program. These primarily include outcomes such as transfer, completion rate, and so on. It was reported that each year the divisions get five years worth of data to help them review their programs and plan. The data has been compiled for all programs. Dr. Meehan was recently asked to create an executive summary for each division that compares programs both internally and externally.

To better do program review, a revised form is being developed. This will be tied to both short-term and long-term plans as well as indicators. Dr. Meehan will continue to meet with Divisions

to review the performance indicators. It was stressed that this process must be faculty driven. The State Academic Senate  has written a paper outlining how faculty should participate in program review.  

 

 

X.      LIAISON REPORTS

         Associated Students —No report.

 

United Faculty —Voting on the salary settlement will be finished Friday.  If the settlement is approved, the Board of Trustees will vote on it at its next meeting.

 

Adjunct Faculty United —No report.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 5:23 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted, 

 

 

Jane Troop, Secretary