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........................................... |
Steven Pliska (alt.) |
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Humanities........................................ |
Ruth Egigian, Robert Lundergan,
Jeff Rodine |
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Library............................................... |
Mike Fitzsimmons |
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Math/Computer Science..................... |
Robert Diaz, Scott Malloy, Greg
Nguyen |
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Natural Sciences................................ |
Jan Chadwick, Jeff Feaster, Carolyn
Heath, (alt.) |
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Part-Time Faculty............................... |
Jim Book |
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Physical Education............................ |
Scott Giles, Pam Lewin (alt.) |
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Social Sciences................................. |
Chris Lamm, Ricardo Salas (alt.) |
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Student Services................................ |
Sylvia Pimentel |
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Technology/Engineering...................... |
Rosa Molina |
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At-large............................................. |
Peg Berger, Paul McKinley, Debbie
McQueen |
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Associated Students.......................... |
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
Albert Abutin, Dana Rose Crystal, Darlene Jensen, Carol Mattson |
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Absent |
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At-large............................................. |
Gayle Cebrian,
Mike Moore |
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Natural Sciences................................ |
Rick Lozinsky |
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Fine Arts........................................... |
Chuck Ketter |
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Humanities........................................ |
Rosa Arceo |
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Social Sciences................................. |
Leonore Monreal |
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Technology........................................ |
Doris
Wright |
I.
CALL
TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President Collins.
II.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
M/S/P (Wilson/Book) to approve the Minutes of the September
27, 2007 meeting.
III.
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
M/S/U (Wilson/Book) to approve the agenda for this
meeting with two changes.
IV.
PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Campus Edition 6 Software Upgrade—Callista Lee requested that the Senators advise their
faculty colleagues who teach online that they need to check their files that
have migrated to CE6 (Campus Edition 6). This system will be in effect Spring 2008.
She also announced that there will be three opportunities for learning the new
system: online courses, the training
being conducted by Staff Development, and a live, four-week course in
February.
One Book/One Campus—Miguel Powers, at the request of
Kimberly Orlijan, mentioned the one book/one campus concept. This was in reference to the concept
that a single book would be integrated into the curriculum of courses within
different divisions. Interested parties should contact Ms. Orlijan at extension
26314. He emphasized that this is not a
book club.
V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
Leadership
Retreat—This retreat, sponsored by the campus,
resulted in recommendations on the structure of PAC and the proposal that there
needs to be a meeting devoted to planning.
Compressed
Calendar—The committee is currently
examining and evaluating other schools’ calendars. This committee includes
representatives of Cypress, Fullerton, and United Faculty. The purpose of this
committee is to develop a model 16-week calendar to be presented to faculty.
Faculty
Allocation Committee—The Senate examined the list of ranked faculty vacancy
recommendations developed by the Deans’ Council.
This list will go to the Faculty Allocation Committee which will be developing its own
recommendations for the 17 replacement positions for the coming year. Once the
Senate Faculty Allocation Committee has made it’s recommendation, both lists
will go forward to Dr. Hodge.
President’s
Weekly—It was announced that the President’s Weekly electronic
newsletter is being provided by an outside service that has the capability of
tracking who opens this publication and who discards it.
Dynamic
Fund—It was announced that a tentative
timeline for the Dynamic Fund process has been established. Anyone interested
in addressing any of the questions was advised to send an e-mail to Miguel
Powers.
Growth
beyond Extended Day—Funds are awarded for growing
beyond extended day. A suggestion was made that the Senate form a task force to
examine proposals to spend this additional money. Pam Lewis, Bob Lundergan, and
Jan Chadwick volunteered to serve.
Past
Senate Presidents—A suggestion was made that the
Senate President convene an ad-hoc set of meetings with past Senate Presidents
to provide suggestions and perspective to current activities. This suggestion
met with strong approval from the Senate body.
New
Vans—It was announce that 12 new Vans
were purchased for use by the Physical Education Department to replace the
current set of vans. This has been a long-time goal of the Physical Education
faculty.
Treasurer’s Report
No report.
VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT
Jennifer
Combs, Curriculum Chair, reported that since August 29 the Curriculum
Committee has processed over one hundred proposals destined for the next
catalog. In completing this monumental
task, Dr. Combs indicated that the new Curricunet program, in which proposals
can be submitted and reviewed online, has been a critical element in fostering
such curricular efficiency. The Curriculum Committee will meet to once again to
examine the Physical Education courses which have not been signed by the College
President. Despite this, Dr. Combs indicated that Dr. Hodge has been very
cooperative in working with the committee to resolve concerns over the unsigned
classes and, after justifications and/or adjusting the course sizes, Dr. Hodge has
added her signature to several previously unsigned classes.
The
Curriculum Chair also reported that DCCC clearly wants to intervene
if curriculum comes to that committee without the College President’s
signature. It was pointed out by several Senators that the College President
now has virtual veto power over curriculum, which has been awarded to her by
virtue of the Board of Trustees’ refusal to sign curriculum that does not have
the President’s signature.
The three
Senate Presidents met with the Chancellor regarding curriculum. This
did not violate the previous Senate motion to prevent the Fullerton College
Senate President from meeting with the Chancellor alone since other faculty
were present. The Chancellor feels that he will not recommend that curriculum
be approved without the signature of the College President. Furthermore, the
Chancellor feels that he has the support of the Board of Trustees that that, in
the Chancellor’s opinion, the curriculum process includes DCCC and the
signature of the Chancellor.
Members
of the Senate and various Senate visitors expressed serious concern about the
curriculum process being hijacked by the College President and this action being
supported by the Board of Trustees. Despite the statement that the College
President has been, of late, working with the Curriculum Committee, it was
pointed out that such apparent cooperation is much like negotiating with a
burglar to return part of the goods stolen from your house. Such negotiations
do not mitigate the initial act and could be seen as aiding and abetting
further similar behavior.
VII. ELECTIONS
The following are the results of the elections held in the Senate:
Position.................................................................................................... Successful Candidate
Accreditation Writer......................................................................................... Sean
Chamberlain
Key Return Policy and Exit Procedure Workgroup........................................................ Ken
Collins
Key Return Policy and Exit Procedure Workgroup.................................................... Miguel
Powers
Matriculation Committee................................................................................... Angela
Henderson
Student Equity Committee................................................................................... Jeanne
Costello
Student Learning Outcome Coordinator............................................................. Danielle
Fouquette
Study
Abroad Committee Faculty Representative.................................................. Leonore Monreal
Study
Abroad Committee Faculty Representative................................................. Richard
Lozinsky
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
Academic Freedom—Kevin Sampson distributed a draft of the Board Policy
regarding academic freedom. This policy is being discussed at Chancellor’s
Cabinet and has been under review for the last four years. It was indicated by
Mr. Sampson that it is critical for faculty to maintain a separation between
issues of discrimination and academic freedom. Although most of the current
legal cases involve discrimination, there are still cases that don’t. Only
excepting discrimination cases is not adequate.
Curriculum Processing—After accepting additional
justification, the College President approved the courses that she had not previously
signed. It was Dr. Collins’ feeling that the Senate has lost control over
curriculum, despite the apparent cooperation of the College President. Dr.
Hodge has been working with the Senate to “solve” the problem but not until
after the Board of Trustees rejected all unsigned curriculum. It is now clear
that the College President is asserting her “rights” to control a critical part
of the curriculum process.
The United
Faculty President indicate that UF will move forward
and seek legal counsel’s opinion on whether the Board of Trustees has a right
to ignore faculty’s input in this area, despite existing legal statutes. Although not often used, it was
indicated by the UF President that the time may be at hand to start strictly
enforcing the Faculty Employment Contract, which gives UF the right to formally
grieve board policy and past practice.
It was stated
by the Chancellor that (in his interpretation) the campus curriculum process
(as covered by the contract) includes DCCC and the College President’s
signature. This expansion of the traditional campus curriculum process is at
the heart of this issue, and it appears to be an attack by the Chancellor and
the Board of Trustees on faculty rights and duties.
On the
campus level, Dr. Collins asked Dr. Hodge if the Senate and the College
President could work out an agreement concerning the limits and rights of the
College President concerning curriculum. Dr Hodge indicated that this should be
done “after things have cooled down a bit” and indicated that March of next
year would be a good date for such a discussion. It was noted by several Senators that this
would be after the midterm accreditation report will be submitted.
It was also
pointed out by several Senators that since the curriculum process has been
radically altered and since the previous accreditation report mentioned the
“outstanding” curriculum process in place at Fullerton College, it might be
necessary to inform the Accreditation Team of the current changes to the
curriculum process and invite the team members to reexamine our college in
light of this change.
Dr. Collins
felt that, at the campus and District levels, the Senate has to get people to
discuss how we can keep this situation from happening again. The Senate would
like to resolve this at the campus level.
Dr. Combs felt that, in the big picture, the Senate needs a process in
writing that involves the Curriculum Committee and the College President.
M/S/U (Wilson/Lewin) that the Faculty Senate go on
record as supporting the efforts of United Faculty to pursue investigating potential legal action
against the Board regarding the curriculum process.
It was the
sense of the Senate that the Senate Exec. ask the College President to delimit
what the campus curriculum process is
and clarify the implications of her not signing proposed curriculum. The matter of writing a statement regarding
the curriculum process on which to reach agreement with a deadline before the
end of the semester was referred to the Curriculum Committee.
IX. NEW BUSINESS
Disabled Student Accommodations—Paul McKinley addressed the Senate
regarding accommodating disabled students.
A proposed motion was tabled that adds Senate support to the addition of
an addendum (a Section 5) to the DSS Accommodation Complaint Resolution
Procedure regarding a faculty/staff complaint procedure.
Books on Reserve—AS
President Ethan Morse requested that more copies of books be put on reserve in
the LLRC.
Two-Year Calendar Proposal—Carol Mattson addressed the Senate
on behalf of the DMA regarding a proposed two-year calendar.
M/S/P (Morse/Wilson) that the Senate encourage all
faculty to make books available to their students whenever possible on library
reserve.
X.
LIAISON
REPORTS
Associated Students—AS Vice
President Nagata reminded the faculty of homecoming and fund raising for the needy in developing
countries.
United Faculty—The United Faculty President reminded the
faculty to fill out the negotiations interests survey. This is important
because UF needs input from faculty concerning negotiations. Indications are
that the Board of Trustees is willing to impose contract language on faculty
and UF needs to hear faculty concerns in this area.
Adjunct Faculty United—No report.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:17
p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Troop, Secretary
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