Approved
Minutes
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Present |
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Business........................................... |
Marcus
Wilson, Nancy Woolridge |
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Counseling........................................ |
Flor
Aguilera-Huerta, Heather Halverson |
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Fine
Arts........................................... |
Michelle
Coletta, Steven Pliska |
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Humanities........................................ |
Ruth
Egigian, Jeff 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, Rick Lozinsky |
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Adjunct
Faculty.................................. |
Jim
Book |
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Physical
Education............................ |
Scott
Giles, Pam Lewin |
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Social
Sciences................................. |
Chris
Lamm, Karen Markley, Leonor Monreal, 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, 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........................................... |
Vacant |
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At-large,
Curriculum Chair................... |
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Guests Adela Lopez |
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Absent |
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At-large............................................. |
Gayle Cebrian, Paul McKinley, Mike
Moore |
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Fine
Arts........................................... |
Chuck
Ketter |
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Humanities........................................ |
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Senate
Exec...................................... |
Jennifer
Combs |
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Social
Sciences................................. |
Leonore
Monreal |
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Technology........................................ |
Rosa Arceo |
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 (Wilson/McQueen) to
approve the agenda for this meeting with one change.
IV.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Adela Lopez announced that Bienvenidos will be held Thursday, September 13, from
V. EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE REPORTS
President’s Report
Class Size—President
Collins discussed the class size issue and its impact
on curriculum. In the last academic year, Physical Education had quite a bit of curriculum, part of which
was not signed by Dr. Hodge because of the class sizes. The Physical
Education Division and Curriculum Committee attempted to resolve Dr. Hodge’s
concerns, but could not reach an agreement.
Consequently the Curriculum Committee sent the courses forward to the
Board of Trustees without the President’s signature. The Trustees, however, were not comfortable
approving this curriculum. The Board
wants to look into the broader issue of class size itself, and Chancellor
Hunter now wishes to negotiate class size instead of
going through the curriculum process. The Board of Trustees has now tabled this curriculum.
AB 1725 lays out procedures and transactions about the
groups on campus and gives the primary responsibility for curriculum to faculty.
It has been this way since the 1980s.
We are in the process of working with the union in planning how the
Senate will handle this. Dr. Hodge has now failed to sign more pieces of
curriculum. We believe that her
signature should be merely an acknowledgement that the President has seen it.
This will be an issue for the Senate this year.
Study Abroad— Study Abroad
Committee Chairperson Patricia Thomas has resigned because of changes imposed on the
committee over the summer that did not involve shared governance. These changes were (1) the Chairperson was no
longer to negotiate contracts, (2) the Chairperson was not to be the exclusive
visitor to potential sites, (3) the Chairperson was assigned clerical duties,
and (4) the Chairperson was limited in her ability to make copies. Vice President Larry Buckley assured Dr. Collins that these were miscommunications and that he merely made suggestions to the
committee.
The Dynamic Fund—Dr.
Collins distributed a handout illustrating the levels
of funding for various proposals drawing money from this fund. Monies were awarded as follows:
Source Amount
on-going $ 1,368
one-time $ 319,917
institutional $ 15,500
Treasurer’s
Report
Due to the
resignation of former Treasurer Callista Lee, there was no report.
VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT
No report.
VII. ELECTIONS
M/S/U (Powers/McQueen) to elect Jim Book, Greg Nguyen,
and Nancy Woolridge to the Elections Committee.
The results of the
elections held in the Senate today are as follows:
Position.................................................................................................... Successful
Candidate
Senate
Elections Committee........................................................................................ Jim
Book
Senate
Elections Committee............................................................................. Nancy
Woolridge
Senate
Elections Committee................................................................................... Greg
Nguyen
Transfer
Advisory Committee................................................................................... Greg
Nguyen
Transfer
Advisory Committee............................................................................. Nancy
Woolridge
Campus Bond
Oversight Committee....................................................................... Jan
Chadwick
Campus
Diversity Committee............................................................................... Leonor
Monreal
Comprehensive
Evaluation Committee for Dorothy Whitehurst................................. Marcus
Wilson
Compressed
Calendar Committee......................................................................... Marcus
Wilson
District
Equivalency Committee........................................................................... Kenneth
Collins
Honors Program
Advisory Committee................................................................... Leonor
Monreal
Honors Program
Advisory Committee................................................................ Robert
Lundergan
Men and Women
of Distinction Committee............................................................ Sheilah
Stokes
Men and Women
of Distinction Committee............................................................... Ruth
Egigian
Staff
Development Committee.................................................................................. Adela
Lopez
Student Equity
Committee.................................................................................. Kenneth
Collins
Student Equity
Committee.................................................................................... Karen
Markley
Student Equity
Committee....................................................................................... Adela
Lopez
Student Equity
Committee................................................................................ Debbie
McQueen
Transfer
Advisory Committee......................................................................... Flor
Aguilera Huerta
Transfer
Advisory Committee............................................................................... Sylvia
Pimentel
Transfer
Advisory Committee........................................................................... Heather
Halverson
VIII. OLD BUSINESS
Natural
Sciences Bond Project—The
Board of Trustees voted to proceed with the project in spite of
the Senate’s resolution urging it not to continue. The architects have reworked the plans to
make them better. Cost projections for the
IX. NEW
BUSINESS
Focus
the Nation Teach In—Sean
Chamberlin addressed the Senate regarding this event that
will take place on
M/S/U (Wilson/Markley)
that the Faculty Senate support the concept of a “Focus the Nation Teach In” on January 31 and form an ad hoc
committee chaired by Sean Chamberlin.
Staff Development Leadership Retreat—One
of the Staff Development goals set last year was to support a campus leadership
retreat. It was supported by Dr. Hodge,
and Carol Mattson was assigned as the administrative resource. Over this past summer the plans were
developed for this two-and-a-half-day function.
It will be held at the Aliso Creek Inn in
It was felt that
although Staff Development engendered the idea of the retreat, it was not
involved in its planning and budgeting which took place over the summer. The Senate was asked what it would like to do
about the process and how it should choose the participants. Discussion
ensued.
It was felt that
Staff Development money should be allocated as much as possible to improve
faculty classroom teaching skills. A possible solution was introduced wherein
Dr. Hodge may be willing to put up money from her
presidential funds for the retreat. The Staff Development Committee should
discuss whether the plan and budget proposed by Carol Mattson meets its approval. The Senate will support the decision of the
Staff Development Committee on the planning and funding of this activity. Thirty-five people will be sent. This issue will come before the Senate again
at its next meeting.
Senate
Minutes of April 19, 2007—SCE Senate‘s Andrea Sibley-Smith, CSEA’s Rod
Lusch, and Cypress College Senate’s Steve Gold took exception to Dr. Joumana McGowan’s
President’s Report in our Minutes of April 19, 2007 in which she briefly
outlined the events of the most recent Board of Trustees meeting.
Dr. McGowan accepted a job as a Dean at
Ms. Sibley-Smith, Mr. Gold, and Mr. Lusch requested that our
Senate pull its Minutes of April 19 from our web site. Our current Senate President, Dr. Collins,
declined on the grounds that our Minutes are correct—they reflect what was
discussed in the Fullerton College Faculty Senate meeting. Consequently, Sibley-Smith, Gold, and Lusch
took exception to Dr. Collins’
decision. The issue went “back and forth” in June.
In an effort to clarify what Ms. Sibley-Smith, Mr. Gold, and
Mr. Lusch said at the Board of Trustees meeting, Cherie Dickey,
M/S/P (Wilson/Book)
to post the partial transcript of the Board of Trustees meeting on our Senate web site and to send a
link to the Cypress Academic Senate, SCE Senate, the United Faculty Board, and the CSEA Board.
Increasing Divisional Budgets
with Last Year’s COLA
The proposal to be brought forward to PAC is to increase on-going divisional budgets by last year’s COLA (5.92%) which
has already been given to the college. A discussion ensued concerning the
process for setting divisional budgets and it was pointed out by the Senate President
that the amount of money given to Divisions is based on history and not any
type of needs-analysis.
M/S/P (McQueen/Book)
to accept the proposal to augment Divisional base budgets by last year’s COLA
of 5.92%.
X.
LIAISON REPORTS
Associated
Students—Associated
Students President Ethan Morse introduced himself to the Faculty Senate. He requested that faculty encourage students
to vote in the A.S. elections.
United
Faculty—
The United Faculty President, Dale Craig, addressed the Senate and presented
the UF liaison report. United Faculty is concerned about the Board of Trustees attempting to circumvent the existing and
already-negotiated curriculum process. Given that the current contract
clearly states that class size is decided by the Curriculum Committee, failure to
follow the contract, even when expressing an interest in opening up the process
for negotiations, is a failure to abide by laws covering collective bargaining.
So far the Board of Trustees has tabled and not rejected curriculum.
The United Faculty President also reported on the stalled
contract negotiations. There are
three articles that cannot be agreed to by either side: load bank,
librarian workload, and counselor
workload. In each case the Board of Trustees wants to change existing contract language and has rejected all suggested compromises by
the UF negotiating team. In the
opinion of the UF President, the Trustees are not serious about negotiating these
articles and appear ready to impose their own contract language on the Faculty.
He further indicated that this is a serious issue for all faculty because it
signals a complete breakdown in the collective bargaining process and can have
potentially disastrous consequences for not only Faculty but also CSEA.
It was announced that United Faculty will keep its membership closely informed on
these issues.
Adjunct
Faculty United—No report.
The
meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
/s/
Jane
Troop, Secretary
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