Approved
Minutes
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Present |
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Business........................................... |
Marcus
Wilson, Nancy Woolridge |
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Counseling........................................ |
Heather
Halverson, Flor Huerta |
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Fine
Arts........................................... |
Michelle
Coletta |
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Humanities........................................ |
Ruth
Egigian, Robert Lundergan |
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Library............................................... |
Mike
Fitzsimmons |
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Math/Computer
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Robert
Diaz, Scott Malloy, Greg Nguyen |
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Natural
Sciences................................ |
Jan
Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Rick Lozinsky |
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Part-Time
Faculty............................... |
Jim
Book |
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Physical
Education............................ |
Scott
Giles, Pam Lewin |
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Social
Sciences................................. |
Chris
Lamm, Ricardo Salas |
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Student
Services................................ |
Sylvia
Pimentel |
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Technology/Engineering...................... |
Rosa
Molina, Doris Wright |
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At-large............................................. |
Peg
Berger, Paul McKinley, Deborah McQueen |
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Associated
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Ethan
Morse |
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President........................................... |
Kenneth
Collins |
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Interim
Vice President........................ |
Miguel
Powers |
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Secretary.......................................... |
Jane
Troop |
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Treasurer........................................... |
Karen Markley |
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At-large,
Curriculum Chair................... |
Jennifer
Combs |
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Guests Darlene Jensen, Chris Kiger |
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Absent |
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At-large............................................. |
Gayle Cebrian, Mike Moore |
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Humanities........................................ |
Rosa
Arceo, Jeff Rodine |
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I.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at
II.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/U (Wilson/Book) to approve
the Minutes of the
III.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Book/Wilson) to approve
the agenda for this meeting.
IV.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Nancy Woolridge expressed concern that the N.O.C.,
which contains important servers and routers, would be moved in the middle of
the semester. President Collins will ask Vice President Portolan to come to the next Senate meeting to discuss
how the N.O.C. will be moved.
Scott Giles brought up parking problems for faculty. President Collins will ask Emilio Perez to come to the next Senate meeting with a copy
of the parking policy to discuss issues of faculty parking. The Senate may consider forming a parking
subcommittee.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
REPORTS
President’s Report
Faculty Allocation—Eighteen
faculty positions are now available. President Collins also mentioned that the
faculty allocation list from the Deans Council was not ranked.
Petitions—Cypress
College Senate brought its petitions to the Board of Trustees last meeting.
The
Chancellor’s Forum—Benoosh
Armani has asked that the Senate put on the agenda for the Board of Trustees meeting a presentation on what counselors
do. President Collins asked Senators to
e-mail him if they wanted to have this presentation sent to them.
Faculty Hiring Policy—Last
year Robert Lundergan and Danielle Fouquette were asked to serve on the faculty hiring
policy committee. President Collins will
send out their suggestions.
DPC—The DPC did not meet on Veterans’ Day.
Board of Trustees Meeting—The Cypress College
annual report was given at the last meeting.
The Fullerton report will be given at the next meeting.
New Vans—President Collins mentioned
that, in fact, four 12-passenger vans will be bought to replace the current set of
15-passenger vans. This has been a long-time goal of the Physical Education
faculty.
Two-Year Calendar Proposal—President
Collins referred to the October 18 Senate meeting where Carol Mattson addressed the Senate on behalf of the District
Management Association requesting support for the adoption of a
two-year calendar and an adoption of the academic calendar no later than June
1, 2008 for the academic year 2009 and respectively each year thereafter. The
Senate took no position since negotiating the calendar falls under the
purview of United Faculty.
Provisions for Emergencies—President
Collins will be discussing funding for provisions for emergencies relative to
the college vans.
Treasurer’s
Report
The
total budget is $4,253, of which $400 is earmarked for supplies and $3,853 for travel.
VI. CURRICULUM
COMMITTEE REPORT
All proposals for fall, 2008, are signed, “blessed”
by DCCC, and approved by the Board of Trustees. More pieces of curriculum
are coming.
Dr. Combs is currently working on
procedures to prevent the recurrence of situations similar to that just
experienced. It will probably be finished by the end of the semester. The
curriculum meetings are currently being devoted to defining the role of
Fullerton Curriculum Committee as related to the college President and the DCCC
and how to deal with problems.
The Curriculum
Committee has started processing the curriculum
proposals for the fall 2009 catalog. Dr.
Combs requested that changes to curriculum be put
into Curricunet by Faculty as soon as possible. The last date to prelaunch IGETSE is February 13 for the UC system and March 26 for inclusion in the CSU catalogs as
well as the 2009 fall Catalog.
President Collins
mentioned that he had received the written explanation from the Board of
Trustees President of why our curriculum was rejected.
VII. ELECTIONS
The following was the
result of the election held at today’s Senate meeting:
Hiring
Committee for NOCCCD Chancellor.................................................................. Ken
Collins
The Senate will
be sending forward only one name.
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
Grade
Appeal Committee—It was felt that the
Senate needs a standing subcommittee for grade appeals. Discussion ensued as to who will represent
the Senate on this committee.
M/S/U
(Wilson/Markley) that the Senate be represented by its President and either its
President-elect or Past President or a designee to serve on the Grade Appeal
Committee.
IX. NEW
BUSINESS
Joint Senate/Union Meeting—This year the
meeting will be held on January 10. The
Fullerton College Senate will serve as host, United Faculty will provide the lunch, and AdFac will furnish the snacks.
It was felt that there are more pressing and practical
issues before the Senate than SCE’s suggested topics (Title V Regulations, What Changes
do Faculty need to know about? and
Credit-Noncredit Collaboration:
Effective Practices at NOCCCD!) as posed by Andrea Sibley-Smith. They,
therefore, received no support. Discussion ensued, and the Senate approved the
following topics:
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The Collective Bargaining Process and
the Role of the Faculty in Political Action Committees (PACs)
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Empowering Faculty Senates: Best Practices in Shared Governance
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Presentation and Discussion of the
Compressed Calendar Model Currently being Developed by Committee
Student
Success Summit—This
was tentatively rescheduled for January 25.
Dr. Sanabria will share information about this at the next
Senate meeting. This summit would be to
put together a plan to enhance student success.
After the Senate, it will be presented at PAC.
Dr. Collins has asked Dr. Hodge when we will begin the self
assessment planning for the Basic Skills Initiative but has not, as yet, received an answer. Adam
O’Connor informed Dr. Collins that we will be getting
$507,000. The Senate President stated that to his knowledge there have been no
public meetings about how to spend this money where Senate representatives have
attended.
A letter from the State outlines the requirements and
conditions for receiving and using the Basic Skills funding. The money is
categorical and can be spent in program and curriculum development, student
assessment, counseling and guidance efforts, supplemental instructional
support, articulation, and instructional resources and equipment as long as it
is related to basic skills.
By May 1, the college must submit a plan to spend this
money. No faculty members have been asked to participate in discussions.
M/S/U
(Wilson/Markley) that the Faculty Senate request the College President report
to us by our next meeting her plan for developing a process for allocating
these funds and outlining the role Faculty will play in these plans.
College
Plans and Goals—PAC
now dedicates one session a month to planning.
The first such meeting was held this week where the members discussed
the process to be followed.
The Vice Presidents and Deans have taken each of the goals
and objectives in the bound edition of the college’s planning documents and
added more from their own areas. None of
these, however, refers to the college goals.
It was, therefore, suggested that the Deans refer back to these goals.
It was decided that last year’s goals will be designated as
this year’s goals so that they can be used for the Dynamic Fund this year with the caveat that the objectives
can be tweaked as they go along. It was noted that those planning documents
that are not in the bound edition can be found on the J drive. Fullerton College’s goals are conformed to
those of the District.
X.
LIAISON REPORTS
Associated Students