Approved
Minutes
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Present |
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Business........................................... |
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Ruth
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Mike
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Math/Computer
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Jan
Chadwick, |
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Part-Time
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Scott
Giles, Pam Lewin |
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Student
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Technology/Engineering...................... |
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At-large............................................. |
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Associated
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President........................................... |
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Interim
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Secretary.......................................... |
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Treasurer........................................... |
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At-large,
Curriculum Chair................... |
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Absent |
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Peg Berger, |
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Chuck
Ketter |
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Rosa
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Senate
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I.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at
II.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/P (Wilson/Lamm) to approve
the Minutes of the
III.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Wilson/Book) to approve
the agenda for this meeting with one change.
IV.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Dia de los Muertos—
Career
Development Event—Flor
Huerta announced the Career Development Event to be held from
V. EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
PAC—At the last PAC meeting, it was proposed by the faculty
representatives that every other PAC meeting be dedicated to campus planning
issues.
Dynamic Fund and Approved Goals—A
sheet listing goals to be used in evaluating dynamic fund allocations approved in March of this year were
distributed by President Collins. He
stated that the Budget Development Committee has recommended that the Dynamic Fund
allocations for 2008-2009 be based on these goals.
DPC/Chancellor’s Cabinet—The
discussion on the proposed Academic Freedom policy continued in Chancellor’s Cabinet. The
proposed Adjunct Hiring Policy was withdrawn by the District for further
development and will be presented at a future meeting. It was suggested that a
subcommittee of the Chancellor’s Cabinet be formed to go through this hiring
policy before it comes back to the Cabinet for further discussion.
President
Collins mentioned that last year the Senate elected two people to serve to
review Adjunct Hiring processes and that it would be useful if these people
helped review this policy. It was mentioned that only one of the two
individuals on this committee,
Case for the Community College Initiative (Prop. 92)—It
was announced by the President that the Community College Initiative has
qualified for the November ballot as proposition 92. This proposal will
establish more secure funding for the community colleges. It is being opposed
by CTA but is supported by CCA.
The community colleges are being asked to support this proposition and college
employees are being asked to contribute money to the campaign. It is estimated
that educating the voters about this proposition will require about $5 million.
The faculty association will probably ask that faculty each give $100 donations
to this initiative.
Basic Skills Initiative—The
Governor has given ongoing money to this initiative. Colleges must submit a
plan to the State by May 1 indicating how they will spend the money. These
funds are categorical and are e
Currently a plan
has not been developed. It is estimated that our District will receive about
$250,000 to 300,000 a year.
Compressed Calendar—The
Compressed Calendar Committee has looked into other schools’ calendars and is e
The United Faculty President stated that the committee will create a model
calendar which will then be presented to Faculty for a
vote. If Faculty vote to accept the calendar, it will be negotiated. If Faculty
reject the calendar and prefer to stay on the current 18-week format, the new
calendar will not be negotiated.
It was indicated that
some programs, such as Administration of Justice and Cosmetology,
have mandated times and cannot fit into a 16-week format. It was also indicted
that come physical education classes that involve team sports must meet outside
the 16-week format. Early start and late start classes are possibilities to
accommodate sports teams and other special circumstances.
Composition of the Chancellor’s Hiring
Committee—It
was announced that the Chancellor’s Hiring Committee is being formed. The
committee is composed of 17 people. Of
these, one will come from each Senate. A District memo was sent requesting that
three names be submitted by the Fullerton Senate and that the representative on
the Hiring Committee will be selected from among these three names. The
District rationale was to ensure diversity on the committee.
It was felt that with a committee this size,
diversity could be reached without requiring the faculty groups to submit three
names each instead of merely giving the name of one designated representative
per body as they have done in the past.
It was the sense of the Senate that only one name be submitted in
keeping with our regular election procedures. President Collins indicated that
he would put out a call to all Faculty for volunteers to serve on this hiring
committee and that the Senate would select the representative.
Treasurer’s
Report
The Senate will be
spending money to send people to the state-wide Senate session.
VI. CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE REPORT
No report.
VII. ELECTIONS
No elections were
held at this meeting.
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
Curriculum
Issues—All unsigned curriculum has been signed by
the President because class sizes were adjusted, or further justified to her
satisfaction. A
letter was sent out from DCCC about proposed changes in
how DCCC functions as the District curriculum coordinating committee. United Faculty has submitted the
curriculum issue to legal counsel for an opinion. Once United Faculty gets
that, it will take it to the Senates.
Disabled
Student Accommodations
M/S/U
(Wilson/Pimentel) to accept the motion that was on the floor at our last
meeting regarding adding a section to The Disability Support Services
Accommodation Complaint Resolution Procedure and editing the document to be
consistent with the language in Title V.
Faculty
Allocation— Seventeen positions were proposed by the Deans. The Faculty Allocation Committee recommended
fourteen of them, and three were tabled.
Of those tabled, one was from
proposed that another division use this opening now. Later, when this position is needed by
Business/CIS, it could be “traded back.”
IX. NEW
BUSINESS
Counselor/Librarian
Workload Issue—Cypress
College is circulating petitions in the divisions
there regarding this issue.
M/S/U
(Halverson/Fitzsimmons) that the Senate endorse the distribution and collection
of the petitions for signatures regarding counselor/librarian
workload and load banking in the divisions.
It was announced by United Faculty that the surveys recently distributed to Faculty concerning the three contract articles are being returned. At present, about 40 percent of all faculty have returned the survey, and the results will be distributed to all faculty. Some general indications from the survey show widespread concern about the Board of Trustees