Fullerton College Faculty Senate

Approved Minutes

February 16, 2006

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Present
	Business.........................................	Dale Craig, Joel Willenbring
	Counseling......................................	Flor Aguilar-Huerta
	Fine Arts.........................................
	Humanities......................................	Danielle Fouquette, John Ison, Robert Lundergan, Miguel Powers
	Library.............................................	Michele Fitzsimmons
	Math/Computer Science...................	Kelly Klassen
	Natural Sciences..............................	Jeff Feaster, Jacob Sapiro
	Part-Time Faculty.............................	Jim Book
	Physical Education..........................	Jim Kiefer
	Social Sciences...............................	Susan Grabiel, Diana Kyle, Arienne Turner
	Student Services..............................	Paul McKinley
	Technology/Engineering....................	Kevin Sampson
	At-large...........................................	Elise Donley, Callista Lee, Mike Moore, Sally Moore
	Associated Students........................	Alejandra Goodrich
	President.........................................	Joumana McGowan
	Past President.................................	Rolando Sanabria
	Secretary........................................	Jane Troop
	Treasurer.........................................	Ken Collins
	At-large, Curriculum Chair.................	Doug Eisner
Guests: Cathy Collopy-O’Donnell, Adela Lopez, Jonathan Morrell, Milton Randall
Absent
	At-large...........................................	Marcus Wilson
	Fine Arts.........................................	Bill Hayner, Chuck Ketter
	Counseling......................................	Karyn Nguyen
	Humanities......................................	Jeff Rodine
	Math/Computer Science...................	Deborah McQueen
	Physical Education..........................	Pete Snyder
	Technology/Eng...............................	Gayle Cebrian, 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 (Kyle/Sampson) to approve the Minutes of the February 2, 2006 meeting.

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

M/S/U (Fouquette/Kyle) to approve the agenda for this meeting with a change.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS

Anyone interested in training on Turn-It-In should contact Rene Bangerter. She will arrange individual instruction.

Jim Kiefer urged faculty to contribute to help support Joe Vasquez who was injured and is now without an income.

V. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

President’s Report

DPC—President McGowan reported that continuing development of the strategic planning process took place at the last meeting. The District, in response to an accreditation finding, is attempting to develop the tools to perform District Strategic Planning.

The SCE request for ten new faculty positions was withdrawn from the agenda by SCE.

Students from Fullerton College presented a Board Policy that allowed each District campus to develop and implement its own smoking policy. This issue was identified as an employee working condition by both CSEA and UF, which means that the development of policy in this area requires negotiations from the unions. Because of the union bargaining issues, this policy proposal was temporarily withdrawn. When a definite Board Policy has been put forward, the Fullerton College Senate can take action. Until then, there is no action.

On February 10 a meeting was held which was hosted by the DMA. Issues discussed at this meeting (which was attended by faculty) included student retention and more cooperation between campuses. President McGowan indicated that this was a valuable meeting and encouraged Senate members and faculty to attend future DMA-sponsored meetings.

PAC—The strategic plan survey will be posted on the Web site. It was announced that Fullerton College should have a new temporary VP of Instruction as of March 1. The person selected by President Hodge is Barbara Hallowell. She has recently retired from Coastline College after serving for ten years as the Vice President of Instruction.

President McGowan reported on a situation at the last PAC meeting. A workgroup was being formed to evaluate requests for allocation of PFE money. President Hodge indicated that this committee would not have the traditional participatory governance structure because she (Dr. Hodge) felt that non-academic managers (directors, etc.) should be treated as a separate governance group. Therefore, the committee would consist of two managers (one academic and one non-academic), one student, one faculty member, and one member of the classified staff.

The Senate President requested that, to preserve the spirit of participatory governance, an additional faculty member be added to this workgroup. Dr. Hodge declined this request, and President McGowan withdrew the faculty member from this committee. The reason for this withdrawal was to protest this new interpretation of participatory governance.

This issue was discussed by the Senate, and serious concern about the principle of participatory governance was expressed by members of the Senate. It was felt that allowing such actions by the College President to go unanswered sets a dangerous precedent.

Various actions to be taken by the Senate were discussed. It was decided that the Senate Exec. will write a resolution, to be voted on at the next Senate meeting, objecting to this action by the College President. If such actions continue, the PAC members are directed to vote no on any PFE proposal put forward by the workgroup until this group is fairly constituted. The Senate Exec. indicated that it would write such a resolution and present it at the next Senate meeting.

The joint resolution about completing negotiations in a timely manner, which was approved with changes by the Fullerton Senate, has been changed yet again by the Cypress College and SCE Senates. The Fullerton Senate did not express any interest in pursuing this matter.

Treasurer’s Report

The Treasurer thanked those who provided the refreshments for this meeting.

VI. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE REPORT

The class size guidelines developed by the Fullerton Curriculum committee were distributed. These guidelines have been developed with input from DCCC and through discussions with faculty on campus. The title “Guidelines” has been changed to “Class Size Planning Resource Sheet” to indicate that these are not required to be followed but should be used as a resource when choosing a class size.

The work on class size was in response to questions about common classes across the campus. Cypress College is currently following these “guidelines” more closely than Fullerton. A final vote by the Fullerton College Curriculum Committee was tabled until these have been reviewed by the Senate and by the various Divisions on campus.

A Senator asked about how the Curriculum Committee decided on class size. It was indicated by the Curriculum Committee Chairperson that the committee took into account the academic requirements of the class and the economic viability of teaching this class. However, this decision is made by the faculty and not by the administration.

A second handout to the Senators contained the current work being done by a committee from DCCC on defining the mission and task of the credit and non-credit parts of the District. This handout contained the various definitions and conclusions of the DCCC subcommittee. Feedback from the Senate and its division representatives was requested.

The Curriculum Committee is also working on allowing students to complete more than one A.A. degree. This is allowed by Title V. Faculty are requested to bring this back to their divisions for discussion.

In his role as Student Learning Outcomes trainer, the Chair passed out a sheet showing Cypress College’s Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs). He pointed out that Accreditation requires ILOs and SLOs for General Education (GE). He proposed that he rewrite Cypress’s ILOs and, using Title 5 language, GE SLOs; he would then bring both to the Senate for discussion and approval. It was the sense of the Senate that he do this.

VII. ELECTIONS

Second calls for division Senators will be sent out to the Humanities, Counseling, and Natural Science Divisions. Nominations for division Senators can be submitted until February 23.

The results of elections held at this meeting are as follows:

Bookstore Advisory Committee (new committee),  Term 2005-2007	Paul McKinley
Campus Equity and Diversity Committee,  Term 2005-2007	Sylvia Pimentel
Grants and Special Projects Assistant Selection Committee	Jacob Sapiro
Confirmation of Interim Dean of Library Selection Committee	Anita Varela, Sandy Smith
President-Elect, 2007-2010	Ken Collins
Senate Treasurer, 2006-2007	Kevin Sampson
Senate Secretary, 2006-2007	Jane Troop

Diana Kyle spoke on her own behalf, and Ken Collins spoke on his own behalf.

VIII. LIAISON REPORTS

Associated Students

The Men and Women of Distinction deadline is February 22. February 21 is the deadline for application for graduation.

United Faculty

It was announced that the District has responded to the most recent salary proposal from UF. This counterproposal was, again, COLA but included a 10% increase in benefits (about $35 a month). A formal communiqué from United Faculty to the faculty will be written in the next few days. Senators were encouraged to report this response from the District to their divisions and to request faculty to respond to UF.

Adjunct Faculty United

No report.

IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

It was announced that the Academic Freedom policy has been reviewed by all three District faculty bodies. Only Fullerton feels that a due-process element must be added to the Academic Freedom Policy. The other two faculty bodies feel that there is sufficient due-process in the Unlawful Discrimination Policy to protect faculty.

Several Senators indicated that they felt the Fullerton College version provided better protection to the faculty, but that it does not appear that a consensus among all three faculty groups will be reached. Although this due-process is not part of the proposed policy, it can be added in a future policy or in a revision to this policy. It was felt that it is important to have some kind of academic freedom policy in place.

M/S/U (M.Moore/Book) to approve the Academic Freedom draft.

Relative to the AP 3720 Policy, a copy of the Natural Sciences Division petition could be presented to other divisions as the example of how to endorse not approving the changes to this policy.

X. OLD BUSINESS

Dr. McGowan announced that Tony Jones wished to correct a statement he made at the last Senate meeting. That is that if we are to switch to a condensed calendar, positive attendance will not be an issue as previously mentioned.

XI. NEW BUSINESS

Faculty will have opportunities through Staff Development to learn technology. A schedule of events will be on the staff development Web site.

Milton Randall addressed the Senate on MESA, which is seeking to be institutionalized on our campus.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:10 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Jane Troop, Secretary