Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

April 20, 2006

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Present
	Business.........................................
	Counseling......................................	Inez Bielke
	Fine Arts.........................................
	Humanities......................................	Danielle Fouquette, John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Miguel Powers, Jeff Rodine
	Library.............................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
	Math/Computer Science...................	Kelly Klassen, Deborah McQueen
	Natural Sciences..............................	Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro
	Part-Time Faculty.............................
	Physical Education..........................
	Social Sciences...............................	Diana Kyle, Arienne Turner
	Student Services..............................	Paul McKinley
	Technology/Engineering....................	Gayle Cebrian, Kevin Sampson
	At-large...........................................	Elise Donley, Callista Lee, Mike Moore, Sally Moore, Marcus Wilson
	Associated Students........................	Alejandra Goodrich
	President.........................................	Joumana McGowan
	Past President.................................	Rolando Sanabria
	Secretary........................................	Jane Troop
	Treasurer.........................................	Ken Collins
	At-large, Curriculum Chair.................	Doug Eisner
Guests: Adela Lopez
Absent
	Business/CIS...................................	Dale Craig, Joel Willenbring
	Counseling......................................	Elias Dominguez, Karyn Nguyen
	Fine Arts.........................................	Bill Hayner, Chuck Ketter
	Part-time.........................................	Jim Book
	Physical Education..........................	Jim Kiefer, Pete Snyder
	Social Sciences...............................	Susan Grabiel
	Technology......................................	Dennis Howey

I. CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 3 p.m. by President Joumana McGowan.

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

M/S/U (McQueen/M.Moore) to approve the Minutes of the March 30, 2006 meeting.

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

M/S/U (Sampson/Kyle) to approve the agenda for this meeting.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Alex Cima distributed a form that faculty and Deans can sign to gain an administrator password allowing them to install their own software without support from ACT.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

Dr. McGowan reported that there were no PAC or DPC meetings due to spring break. She responded to Dr. Hodges’ memo about committee composition and shared governance.

Treasurer’s Report

Ken Collins thanked those responsible for bringing refreshments.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

No report.

VII. ELECTIONS

At-large positions are available. No nominations have been received for PAC. Only Business and Natural Science cannot put people on PAC. The Curriculum Chair position is open. The Professional Development Committee has three openings. Dr. Eisner recommends that an election be held for a one-semester chair to finish his term and then a separate election for the next two-year term.

VIII. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

Alejandra Goodrich reported that Associated Students has elected new officers.

United Faculty

Marcus Wilson reported that UF is making another offer. The District is giving a 6 percent raise to adjunct. Because of this, it is now trying to offset its salary offer to full-time faculty. UF is taking the position that salary should not be offset by a raise to part-timers because many full-time faculty don’t teach overload. There is no more time for negotiations after this. If UF doesn’t take the District’s offer, it will go to impasse. Most likely, the District will make us a last, best, and final offer around 4 percent.

Dissatisfaction with the nearly static membership on the UF negotiating team was brought up again. Dr. Wilson explained that the negotiating team comes from the United Faculty Board and that because not many people run for positions on the Board, there is not much diversification on the negotiating team. Heated discussion ensued.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Dr. Eisner discussed a draft of an ILO (Institutional Learning Outcome) that could be worked on by PAC. ILOs are required for accreditation. This draft was developed at Cypress College, not Fullerton College. The question was asked about whether or not the Senate wanted to go with the draft or tweak it. There is always the possibility of developing from scratch.

M/S/P (Sapiro/Wilson) Let’s accept this I.L.O. draft and be done with it.

X. OLD BUSINESS

Relative to AP 3720, Chuck Ketter, Elise Donley, and Dale Craig met to recommend that members from Fullerton, Cypress and SCE Senates get together and develop a new policy. It is expected that the policy would be followed by a procedure.

Joumana presented to the Senate a copy of Board Policy 3000 (Equivalency of Faculty) with the changes shown in red. Cypress has approved it.

M/S/U (Eisner/M.Moore) to approve the changes to this policy.

Adela Lopez attended this Senate meeting so that she could answer questions about the Title V Steering Committee. Those individuals who had questions for her did not attend this meeting. She mentioned that she is the only original faculty member left on the committee and that the committee has undergone four changes in leadership.

It was mentioned that this is the second Title V grant that Fullerton College has had and that this institution agreed to improve the numbers of students of color and failed. Dr. McGowan asked why the issue was not brought up sooner. Ms. Lopez felt that we have done very little institutionally about diversity. We are an Hispanic enrolling institution instead of an Hispanic serving institution. Dr. Eisner felt that, in the future, we should make sure that we have faculty leaders in the beginning who can write the grant and be responsible for it in its entirety. Good people were put on a grant after it was written, and we should change that.

Dr. Sampson suggested that we focus our attention on what’s going to resolve this issue including the following questions: 1. What is the primary issue we need to address? 2. Who will fix it? 3. What is the ultimate outcome that we believe to be best? 4. What position do we want to take?

We have a large amount of money in the Foundation office to be used to keep Title V going. It is believed that it was used to start the new Foundation.

A Senator asked what the criteria were for the acceptance of matching funds. What is the documentation that shows the criteria on which we accepted this money? Compare the document with what was done, and then we can look at it. Then we should ask some public questions about what happened. He would like to have this at the next Senate meeting. Another Senator would like to see a forensic report to determine exactly where the money was spent.

XI. NEW BUSINESS

Danielle Fouquette proposed changes to the Senate By-laws so that all full-time faculty will be sent written nomination forms for Senate officers. Mike Moore responded that the Senate elects its own officers, and, if no one is willing to serve, it then looks outside the Senate.

It was brought to the attention of the Senate that Board Policy and Administrative Procedure 3740, having to do with official web sites created by the District, have been changed relative to web site accessibility.

Board Policy 3740, § 1.3 now reads:

“Official web pages must be reviewed for accuracy and appropriateness, as well as, demonstrate compliance with federal, sate, local laws and district policies. This process shall be carried out in consultation with the District Director of Public Affairs”…. “Users who believe the content of a personal page is offensive, obscene, violated District policy and applicable laws, or is inconsistent with the generally accepted norms for web page content, may register a formal complaint by contacting the district Office of Public Affairs at (714) 808-4829.

Administrative Procedure 3740, §2.0, now reads:

“Developers of official web pages are encouraged to utilize the resources of design professionals in the District in order to ensure the highest level of quality in presentation and style. Web pages should be both interesting and informative, while projecting a consistent and cohesive image while maintaining universal access to its content.”

Administrative Procedure 3740, § 7.0 now reads:

“Official web pages and their links should be regularly updated to ensure that they are accurate, timely, and compliant.

Whatever the Board has in place remains in place until the Senate develops a revised 3740.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop, Secretary